This is a quick clip from an online 2 year old western pleasure horse training clinic with multiple Western Pleasure World Champion Trainers, Cleve Wells, Rusty Green & Shane Dowdy. This is a quick tip from Cleve Wells on teaching a horse to lope properly in the side-pull.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

Well that’s not exactly right. Your horse can’t read your thoughts but he can and does read the energy in your thoughts. To achieve success with your horse your horse back riding begins first in your mind.

It goes like this. Each and every thought you have carries emotional energy with it. This energy begins at your subconscious level. As your sub conscious mind has a feeling, thought or sense emotional energy attaches itself to it.

It it this energy that communicates with your horse. Before you ever even think of giving a physical or verbal command your horse is already responding to this sub conscious energy. This emotional energy transmits itself to your body and your body transfers it to your horse. In this way your horse back riding starts in your mind and communicates to your horse before you can even get a word out.

Think of it like water that is beginning to boil for your cup of coffee. The water is hot long before you actually hear or see it begin to boil. So if you try to touch the water, you can still get burned.  ( I know, not such a great example, but it was the only thing I could think of at the moment.)

Your successful horse training for the show pen, trail or horseback ride for pleasure begins in your sub conscious mind first!

If you want your western pleasure horse to move slowly and correctly then your subconscious mind needs to do the work before your body gets in the picture. Horse back riding is a ton of fun but remember to achieve success get your mind right before your body gets in the game.

Horseback Riding

To ride and show your horse in the western pleasure class it’s important to understand what the western pleasure gaits are and what they look like. AQHA has released an excellent video showing these gaits.

This is a great video from AQHA on the Western Pleasure Horse. Even though it is a 2006 video the principles are the same. Take a look at it.

Western Pleasure Horse

Winning Your Class Begins with Choosing the Right Horse

Showing to win begins with choosing the right horse.  Often we try to make the horse do the event we want them to  rather than choose a horse who is born with natural talent for the event in which we want to compete.

It’s a little like attempting to make a scientist out of a painter. Rarely does this work. Just like you, your horse has to have a natural talent and ability and then you build on this natural talent with training.

If you want to compete in western pleasure it’s important to learn what the judges look for in a western pleasure horse. Then when you buy a horse make sure you buy one that has the desire and ability to show western pleasure. This goes for any other event you want to show in.

However, you may find a horse who is talented in more than one event. There are many horses that are considered all around horses who have the talent and mind to compete in multiple events. The All Around Horse is  popular because many people like being able to show in multiple events when they pay the cost to attend a show.

Take a look at this video of an All Around Horse…his sire is Willy Be Invited. Willy Be Invited was top ten in the nation in western pleasure and hunter under saddle. That’s hard to do but he did it!

Choose your horse for the event you want to ride!

All Around Horse

Related Pleasure Horses Articles

I hope you’re having a great summer. Summer seems to have finally arrived here in the northwest. It’s nice to spend more time outdoors with our horses.

By this time you should have gotten two emails at least from me and have seen two Free Videos from Mark Shaffer. I got some feedback that one of the videos was hard to hear. I’m sorry about that. Live video feeds can sometimes be that way. I’ll try to make sure the future videos are a bit louder.

I also got some feedback from one person that they could not see the videos at all. If you have any issue then be sure to download the current version of Adobe Flash and that should take care of the problem.

Now I have a question for you. I am busy working with Professional Horse Trainers to bring you more online video horse training in workshop format. I’d like to provide what you want so please let me know which type of training you would most like to see from the following list.

Western Pleasure

Western Riding

Horsemanship

Showmanship

Lunge Line

Trail

Hunter Under Saddle

Please just send me an email at railandpatternhorse@gmail.com and tell me your top 2 or 3 types of online horse training you’d like to see.

Or you can go to my blog post and give me some feedback as well. This is the link to my blog post : HorseTrain

]]> http://railandpatternhorse.com/blog/horse-riding-training-showing-tips/question-which-horse-training-online-videos-would-you-like-to-see.php/feed 0 http://railandpatternhorse.com/blog/horse-riding-training-showing-tips/the-real-meaning-of-ride-your-horse-in-western-pleasure.php http://railandpatternhorse.com/blog/horse-riding-training-showing-tips/the-real-meaning-of-ride-your-horse-in-western-pleasure.php#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:15:07 +0000 Jean http://railandpatternhorse.com/blog/?p=1021 Ok maybe it’s just me and you haven’t fallen into this particular horseback riding trap…Or maybe you have and just don’t want to admit it. What’s the trap? Read on and find out…

You love your horse and aren’t sure how to really get them finished for a particular riding discipline for example western pleasure. So as a responsible owner you send them out to a Professional Trainer to be trained. Then after months of paying a board and training bill and waiting to get on your horse yourself and ride…after all you and The Trainer don’t want you to ruin the horse….ever heard that one?…..

Anyway, you finally get on to ride your horse and in your mind the horse is push button right? All you have to do is just sit up on his back and look pretty and just let him do his thing. So you get on, you look pretty, you sit up there and you can’t get your horse to do a ***** thing you want him to.

The Trainer made him look awesome but you can’t even get him to lope slowly or even on the right lead. When he jogs he leaves his hind quarters out behind and bounces you all over the place. Your back feels like your spinal cord is being hit with a hammer each time the horse moves his back legs. Well maybe it’s not quite that bad but it’s sure not what you expected.

Two things I have learned from my years in horses:

No matter how trained the horse is you have to ride him every stride to get the results you want. It’s not enough to have him trained and just sit up on his back and look pretty. You actually have to know what cues he has been trained to respond to and you have to ride his stride.

Get on him early  enough in the training to know exactly how he is being trained and that you can really ride him with the same cues your trainer is using. The trainers legs will hit your horse in a different place than yours and they most likely have much stronger legs than you do. So make sure early on that you can continue to ride your horse in the same way he is being trained or you are wasting your money and maybe even worse yet…You may find yourself very dissatisfied with this horse that in the beginning you really wanted to keep.

Your horse needs to be trained for you to ride,  not your trainer.

You can find it here on the AQHA site. They don’t really make it too easy to find and had I not rented it and watched it I would not readily buy it. But trust me this is a great video and whether you have a quarter horse or another breed, if you want to ride in the western pleasure class this is well worth your while.

http://www.aqhastore.com/store/product/7049/DVD-S%26S-WESTERN-PLEASURE-HORSE/