Video Critique: Lauren and Matchbox Submission 1
San Diego Horse Trainer Will Faerber from Art2Ride discusses the video sent in by Lauren and gives suggestions for further improvement.
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Annette Yardley says: Hello Will and Karen,
thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge and experience.
I am working with an 8 year old thoroughbred who was unsuccessfully raced then abandoned and starved. I took him and now his sores have healed and his weight is good and teeth and feet attended to and I have been doing groundwork to de-sensitize him and relax him and to encourage him to trust people again.
It is 6 weeks now that I have been lungeing him daily, using your wonderful clips to learn from (he had no idea at first).
I have watched your clips on all of the topics many times over and you say it takes 1 or 2 years for a horse to develop its topline. This, however, would include being ridden I think. I also remember hearing you say that in the Spanish Riding School the horses are lunged for a full year before being ridden – maybe I have my answer already 🙂
My question is:
on average, starting with a horse with no muscle and no topline, how long would you think it would take to continue with the lungeing before the horse would be strong enough to be ridden (I weigh 55kgs)?
I was originally lungeing him every day and just this week decided to lunge only every second day and to do other groundwork (de-sensitizing, leading beside, yielding hindquarters from the ground etc) on the alternate days.
The last 3 lunge sessions have been with a lungeing roller and side reins, which has gone very well.
My routine is to walk for 10 minutes (he stretches down quite well) and I have been gradually increasing the amount of trot – now trotting for 10 circles – again he stretches down well. This is done on both reins of course.
I haven’t been trying to make the lungeing time less, as you said is usually the case when things go well, because he is not being ridden yet and he needs to develop muscle in the correct places and to increase his aerobic fitness.
So how many weeks/months of further lungeing would you
think typically would see him ready to take my weight?
If you are interested in my enquiry, I could possibly send you a photo of the horse via email.
Thank you again for your site, I visit it just about every night.
When I do start to ride the horse, I will be following your routine, which is really well-explained and sequential and easy to understand.
I haven’t been in touch with you before, except to send you a Christmas card from Sydney Australia 🙂
thank you,
Annette Yardley
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Kali says:
HI Annette, It sounds like you are on track so keep up the good work and you’ll get there. I would stick to the lunging daily for the time being until you get him stronger. As to when you should ride, once you can see the horse really stretching and engaging his back, try riding, if he can maintain the position of the back, he’s ready to ride, if he hollows and throws his head up when you get on he’s probably not. The best way for me to help you is to send in a video as then I can give you a better idea of how to proceed. Thanks for saving this horse, he will thank you later!
Hello Will and Karen,
thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge and experience.
I am working with an 8 year old thoroughbred who was unsuccessfully raced then abandoned and starved. I took him and now his sores have healed and his weight is good and teeth and feet attended to and I have been doing groundwork to de-sensitize him and relax him and to encourage him to trust people again.
It is 6 weeks now that I have been lungeing him daily, using your wonderful clips to learn from (he had no idea at first).
I have watched your clips on all of the topics many times over and you say it takes 1 or 2 years for a horse to develop its topline. This, however, would include being ridden I think. I also remember hearing you say that in the Spanish Riding School the horses are lunged for a full year before being ridden – maybe I have my answer already 🙂
My question is:
on average, starting with a horse with no muscle and no topline, how long would you think it would take to continue with the lungeing before the horse would be strong enough to be ridden (I weigh 55kgs)?
I was originally lungeing him every day and just this week decided to lunge only every second day and to do other groundwork (de-sensitizing, leading beside, yielding hindquarters from the ground etc) on the alternate days.
The last 3 lunge sessions have been with a lungeing roller and side reins, which has gone very well.
My routine is to walk for 10 minutes (he stretches down quite well) and I have been gradually increasing the amount of trot – now trotting for 10 circles – again he stretches down well. This is done on both reins of course.
I haven’t been trying to make the lungeing time less, as you said is usually the case when things go well, because he is not being ridden yet and he needs to develop muscle in the correct places and to increase his aerobic fitness.
So how many weeks/months of further lungeing would you
think typically would see him ready to take my weight?
If you are interested in my enquiry, I could possibly send you a photo of the horse via email.
Thank you again for your site, I visit it just about every night.
When I do start to ride the horse, I will be following your routine, which is really well-explained and sequential and easy to understand.
I haven’t been in touch with you before, except to send you a Christmas card from Sydney Australia 🙂
thank you,
Annette Yardley
HI Annette, It sounds like you are on track so keep up the good work and you’ll get there. I would stick to the lunging daily for the time being until you get him stronger. As to when you should ride, once you can see the horse really stretching and engaging his back, try riding, if he can maintain the position of the back, he’s ready to ride, if he hollows and throws his head up when you get on he’s probably not. The best way for me to help you is to send in a video as then I can give you a better idea of how to proceed. Thanks for saving this horse, he will thank you later!