ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: forging

Re: forging

gerhardt (gerhardt@theriver.com)
Thu, 10 Apr 1997 18:03:22 -0700

Truman is absolutely correct in his comments about good dressage work and
hills. Young gaited horses have a tendency to be pacey because their back
muscles are not developed enough to carry the weight of the rider. The cure
is hills, because, as Truman says, it forces their head down, rounds the
back which strengthens the muscles and gets them driving off the hind. As a
result, it pushes them toward the diagonal, which, since I am trying to get
them to use and develop the muscles that will get them to travel "square"
(evenly timed) is exactly what I want. Good dressage work can do the same,
which I learned 20 years ago when I first learned to ride and did dressage
and three day eventing, but hills are, as Truman says faster.

Annette

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> From: Truman Prevatt <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: Re: forging
> Date: Thursday, April 10, 1997 6:11 AM
>
> > Truman, read your post about doing hill work helping in some cases
> >of forging and that got my curiosity up...why is that?
> > Does it have to do with developing different muscles? Thanks,
> >Linda
> >
> >
> >Linda Eisele & Sareei and
> >hubby, Allen and the General
nevadaghostridr@webtv.net
>
> Hills do the same thing as good, notice I say good, dressage work, but
they
> get the results must faster. It forces the horse to get its head down,
its
> backed rounded and to drive off the hind. Hills are also the closest
thing
> a horse can do to lifting weights. He has to push his body against
> gravity. Hill work strenghtens the hind end, the back and the abdominal
> muscles and teaches the horse to carry himself much better frame.
>
> Truman
>
>
>
> Truman Prevatt
> Sarasota, FL
>
>

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