Working With a New Horse:Evaluating the Sliding Stop
Ranch Riding
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10m
You’ve learned how to evaluate your horse’s spins, lead changes, circles, and speed transitions, so now it’s time to evaluate the sliding stop. After evaluating the sliding stop, you can make a final evaluation of what you need to work on with your horse. It’s important to be able to work your horse by communicating to send signals through body language, using the spacing between you and your horse by having him yield to pressure. Doing liberty work with your horse also allows him to have a comfortable safe space standing quietly next to you, but still respecting you.
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