Re: [RC] Improving the walk, was pacing anglo - Heidi Smith
The best way I know to encourage a horse to reach
out at the walk is to give a light squeeze with the leg, on alternating sides,
as the horse's hind leg on that side is in flight. This encourages
the horse to reach further under himself with that hind leg and lengthen his
stride. This is one of those subtle things that one has to learn by
practice in order to get the timing right, and may have to continue for miles at
a time.
And of course, if one never walks because it is too
slow, there is also no chance to improve. :-)
Subject: [RC] Improving the walk, was
pacing anglo
Barbara, How DO you teach a horse to lengthen in the walk. I have an
Anglo-arab, walks slower than molasses. Can't stand it! We almost
never walk cause its too damn slow. He just mosies along, other horses
pass, then he trots to catch up.
