Mar 3, 2011

bridle and lunge session

After having Mond to Wed off due to being wormed on Monday and injuring his hind legs in the gate playing with PJ, i decided i'd better do a lunge session.

tallic has been a bit difficult to bridle, moving his head away and even trying to go backwards to avoid the bridle. about time we fixed this!
  • right hand over the poll, lower the head; kept doing this until happy
  • bring the bridle up to the nose with the left hand (this is all from the near side). he'd lift his head, move it sideways, anthing to avoid the bridle
  • back to lowering he head, then bring the bridle up and down the nose until he accepted it without lifting or shifting
  • had to do quite a few repetitions of all of these mavouvres until i was happy to put the bridle on. repeated this step 3 times, then did it up and ready to go

Lunge session was done with the side reins at the girth level where norman wanted them. i started on the 9th hole, but decided that i liked them a little looser.

  • tallic was forward and swinging
  • he went off the commands well, and i was able to basically stay in the middle and keep him going without having to chase him up much at all
  • did a reasonable canter to the right, although above the bit

short and sweet session of only about 15mins.

when we returned to the corral to take the gear off, he lifted his head when removing the bridle, so, it went back on. 3 repetitions again. he has to have it removed as nicely as it should go on!

GOOD session

legs less swollen the next morning

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2 comments:

  1. LouiseMarch 8, 2011 at 8:28 AM

    I tried to post a comment yesterday but it doesn't seem to have worked so here we go again.

    Just a thought on bridling Talic, when I bridle a horse i have my right hand over the top of the ears holding the bridle and the left hand guides the bit in, this way you have your hand right there if they try to avoid or look away or move. You can instantly correct their thought and bring it back onto you.
    i'm not sure if you do it this way or not. You can lower their head very easily with your right hand, ask them to be still and get that then take it away as you have been doing. see how you go.

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  2. SandiMarch 27, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    I do bridle with my right hand over the poll, i actually don't think i could do it any other way?? he's doing well after 3 sessions of it.

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