Horse’s Business

by Ralph Galeano

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    They know what they’re doin’ but most of the time we confuse them by giving orders when we could save ourselves the trouble and let them pick and choose their own way without us interfering.  My horse never has trouble getting in the right lead when he’s running in the pasture.  In fact, he was always in the correct lead until I went to a clinic and learned a little about lead changes.  I began cueing him with leg and rein pressure to force him into the right lead.  With my new knowledge and expert guidance, he most always took off on the wrong lead.

     I went to another clinic and suffered humiliation and abuse when the instructor yelled, “What are you doing?”  He started slapping his hand on top of his hat like he couldn’t believe what he was seeing when he watched me try to teach my horse how to make flying lead changes.ges.

    He just didn’t understand that you need to be moving the horse one way with your legs and the other way with your reins all the while looking the opposite direction so the horse could read your mind.

 

     Horse’s Business looks into the intelligence of the rider versus the intelligence of the horse.  In this column,

 the horse most always comes out ahead.

 

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