Develop Trust With Your Pony By Teaching Her To Lie Down

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Before you go train your mare for a horse ballet such as dressage, try teaching her some basic tricks first.

Eventually having your own horse most probably made you more determined to become a full on equestrian. But irrespective of how eager you are, your dressage competing days will have to wait until your mare is fully equipped with the right coaching and experience to handle it. Meanwhile, just enjoy horse riding and even better practice your coaching skills by developing trust between you and your mare by teaching her an easy trick; like lying down, for instance.

Start by providing your pony protection for her legs. With the rope placed on the pastern found on the mare’s leg that’s next to you, ask your mare to give you her foot and let the rope help you in holding up the foot. While doing this ask your mare to lean back. Release just as fast as your mare leans back, praise her, and put her foot down.

Next, ask your pony to rock back and continue doing so until her knee gets to touch the ground. Ensure that your mare’s nose isn’t pointed between her legs as that may make it more difficult for her to lie down. When your mare becomes more comfy with her knee touching the ground, ask your mare to remain a bit longer before letting her get up. At that point, teach your horse the cue for getting up so she’s going to look for your sign to get up before she is doing so and remain staying down before the cue.

For the following steps, see if your pony will lift her knee from the ground. If that is the case place the rope under her tummy toward the other side of her body, over her back, and in your hands again to keep your mare’s foot up in case she resists the steps that follow.

While your mare’s knee is on the ground, direct her nose toward the opposite side, the opposite of where you stand, and ask her to rock back even more. Slowly, your horse will come down on her shoulders and lie down. Allow her to get up after she wants to do so.

Give the cue for lying down. Let your mare lie down and get up several times before asking her to stay down which you’ll do by having your mare bend her head on her side. Eventually, let your mare stay down longer before signaling her to get up.

Once your mare has learned your cues, it’ll become natural for her to lie down and get up when you teach her to do so.

Remember that horses can’t learn this in a single day.

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