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Dear Chelsie, Do you have any suggestions for a horse that leans dramatically in the lope? I have a nice little gelding who is triple bred Poco Bueno and has Dry Doc as well. He is young and green. I have been starting young horses for 10 years now and I have never had one [...]
Hello, I would like advice on canter exercises to improve the collection and get that rocking horse canter. also what to do when they get strung out at the canter or swap hind lead My five year old mare is well set in her flat walk and running walk. I started working her on cantering [...]
Q. Chelsie, I have a 10 year old BLM mustang mare that my husband and father in law broke to ride, using the “cowboy” method. I have been working with her for a long time to get her to canter under saddle. I succeed about 3 times and have been having trouble ever since. The [...]
Q. Chelsie: I just purchased a 7 yr. old gelding that is a son of Chip’s Hot Chocolate – bred for Western Pleasure. I grew up riding Western Pleasure in 4-H, but never really learned the correct leg cues & correct natural horsemanship techniques – I learned through trial and error. It has been several [...]
Hello Everyone, This month in the series we are going to talk about the canter foot falls and right and left leads. So let us first start with how many beats in a canter. The Canter has 3 beats. There are 4 legs and only 3 beats, so this means that 2 legs move together [...]
Hello everyone, This month I am going to talk about canter leads and departures. We talked about the canter foot falls a few months ago. Knowing the canter foot falls is going to help us here in getting better canter departs and the correct lead. So to just recap, the canter is 3 beats. The [...]
