| There's something highly important your horse needs. | | | | Anticipating comes in handy in lots of situations. If |
| It's anticipation. Your horse needs you to anticipate. | | | | you're riding in an arena and getting your horse to trot |
| Here's what I mean. | | | | and tuck in his chin, this will round his back and make it |
| Let's say you're in the round pen and on your second | | | | easier to ride him. If he's never done much of this, it will |
| ride on a horse you just green broke. Your horse is | | | | confuse him and maybe upset him. So before he gets |
| moving in the round pen pretty good but he always | | | | mad about it, then stop asking him to do it. |
| slows down or stops at a certain spot. The next time | | | | Sure he's just a horse but horses are an emotional |
| around then pen you will be ready for that and you will | | | | creature. If you make him mad you're going to have a |
| bump him to get him through that spot so he doesn't | | | | hard time working with him. So anticipate him getting |
| stop or slow down. | | | | mad and end it before it even starts. Certain signs will |
| The trick here is to speed him up a little "before" he | | | | tell you he's beginning to get mad. One sign is tail |
| starts to think about slowing down or stopping. Why | | | | swishing. If you hear the "whoosh" of the tail you might |
| do it before he thinks about it? Because you will have | | | | tell yourself he's working on getting mad and it's time to |
| his attention on you and he'll know he needs to move. | | | | back off. |
| He won't be thinking about slowing down at that spot. | | | | |