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Re: [RC] re: teaching tailing - rides2far

are 

there any cues I can teach him to guide him without having to use 
the leadshank at all?



On the Tevis video I remember Potato telling Boyd to steer him by pulling
his tail the opposite direction that you want to go. I tried it and it
seems to work. They kind of have to turn their body away from the
pressure to not lose their balance. I highly recommend that you always
unsnap the rein and run it through a stirrup to hang onto, no matter how
much you trust your horse. If you forget to do that, hang onto the tail
when they take off up the hill and take *really* long strides. It'll be
the closest you ever get to looking like Neil Armstrong running on the
moon.

Angie

On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:18:54 -0600 Teresa Van Hove <vanhove@xxxxxxxx>
writes:

Angie had a wonderfully funny post on this subject once, and there
have been some more formal training posts too so you might search
archives.  That said-- I've found the easiest way to 'teach' tailing
is to have a horse in front and a well-defined trail; and if the
horse is not tracking up the trail I get back on.  I'm not fit
enough to do much tailing tho - I usually save my limited stamina
for getting off downhill and only rarely want the horse in front
then (Grey will let me brace on his hip or grab the stirrup for
balance and I'll do this on some trails that are hard for me to keep
my feet on)  My horses are not trained to drive 



Anyone recommend any good ways to work on teaching a horse 

to tail?  My horse did really well when I tested him out to see how 
he'd react to me holding onto his tail while I walked right off to 
the side of his behind. He's trained to drive and I still ground 
drive him on occasion so that may have helped, but to tail him I 
only used a leadshank. The problem is that he keeps turning towards 
me after a few steps. How do I keep him moving straight and are 
there any cues I can teach him to guide him without having to use 
the leadshank at all?

Cheers,
Teresa, Grey Moun, and Shade

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Wildwood, GA
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