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Horse Training For Rearing
By Horse Guy | January 23, 2012
Many films have ended dramatically with the image of a horse and rider silhouetted by the sunset as the horse rears back on its hind legs and sounds a victorious whinny. But the real life application of rearing is most often the result of a startled animal, and not a gesture of triumph.
Rearing, when it occurs naturally, is the horse expressing fear and possibly resistance to the handler’s direction. A basic way of correcting this is to develop the habit of turning the horses’ head and moving his/her hindquarters as soon as the rearing starts.
This likely won’t work the first few times, but eventually it will teach the horse that rearing isn’t going to work and that the only option left is to move in the desired direction with his/her feet on the ground.
Many new riders want to know how to teach a horse to rear. To be honest, this is one of the most dangerous habits you could possibly encourage in your horse!
It can be done, but unless you’re a professional stunt man it’s best to leave this one alone and focus on how to prevent unwanted rearing. Horses that are taught to rear could conceivably fail to discriminate between proper and inappropriate times to display their talent, resulting in serious rider injury.
Originally posted 2008-05-25 06:30:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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