My horse won't pick speed up when i ask him to.?
So heres the deal,
my new horse WAS a church pony,
he was trained to Walk insted of run,
Because of the kids that rode him.
So he have no idea what hes supose to do
when i tap him with the spurs.
He only keeps walking.
So i've been useing a soft rope as a whip.
Every time i video him with my spurs,
and he stays the same pase,
i brush the rope over his hindquarters.
It gets him to progress faster,
but i dont want him to JUST mind the rope.
So i was wondering, should i keep this training up,
Or should i try somthing else?
Im up to try anything at this point.
Try training him on a long-line in a circle. Say meander and then walking is ok. Say ckckck for trot, and crack the whip and when he's trotting, ok. The say getti up ! For a gallop (or anything word cues you want to use) and crack the whip even more..till he learns to change speed at your direction.
Not to locked trying to teach him when you're on his back, he might spook or buck.
Also if he's elder, has sore feet, or just isn't contained by shape...he may not feel like going fast. Take it unforced on him.
Im dealing with the same problem. So this horse im working with is but a Pony, and his owners have no fricken clue what there doing with him so roughly he cant even hold onto a steady trout because they don't make him keep his speed. he of late stops when he wants to. So when i was out there alone beside him you bet he listened to me. it took him a while, and i just encouraged him but presently he gets it and is doing great. so just keep up beside the game plan, do what you think is best.
In my personal experience i have a neighbor with horses. when I don't want them around i simply go external and fire a few rounds off with my 30-30 they usually appear to move away very fast generally but sometimes it stops them dead in there tracks. possibly you should try riding it like they did back in the daylight and carry a rifle and scream like a unrepressed indian after all it did work for them.
i would work him on the ground. get back to the basics. lunge him or put him surrounded by a round pen and make him understand that you can move his feet, control where on earth he goes and how fast he gets in that. make him walk, then reward him whether hes doing good. then make him trot, and do NOT tolerate him break the trot unless you ask for it. when you ask him to go back to the walk or halt, next reward him. and repeat all of that for the canter.
make sure that you reward him after he give you the right answer though.
Answers: i estimate you should try to work together and communicate
don't whip it because you should never be so aggressive to animals or he will get scared and who know...it might break the relationship between u nd him so just go easy on him
lash him softly
A horse innately knows how to walk, trot and canter. You are trying to initiate him a speed up cue to transition to the faster gait, and, I'd assume, to also slow down.
Teaching a cue is done by teaching the "ask" form, which is then quickly followed by the "command" form whether the horse does not respond to "ask". You can later put another "ask" in front of the old "ask" and receive the old "ask" the new "command"
So if you are starting near spurs as "ask" and rope as "command", you need to get to the point where "ask" is adjectives you need. You do this by accepting the slightest speed up on spur as allowing you to not use the rope. Gradually the horse will see that responding to the spur means he gets to avoid the (presumably smaller quantity pleasant) rope. When this is a nearly guaranteed consistent response, you can then start to substitute the squeeze for the spur and let the squeeze become "ask" and the spur become "command".
This is a somewhat complicated way to travel and you might do a lot better to try to teach the horse verbal cues to trot and canter on the lunge. In this valise, "ask" foir the trot would be the "cluck" sound and "command" would be the crack of the lunge whip. The "kiss" sound would be the "ask" for canter and "command"" would be the crack of the lash. Once consistent in responding to cluck and kiss from the ground, the same cues can be used from the saddle. Then you can use the spur in place of the lunge whip's nouns.
Remember that you need to respond within a moment of the cue to reinforce "ask" with "command" - any longer and the horse may not recognize the connection.
Slowing down is normally done from the lunge by using the cue for the gait ("cluck" or "kiss") that you want to go to. Transition to the walk does not have a voiced cue, but you use a tug on the lunge line, which will later be rein pressure, to slow the horse to the walk.
I hope this help! Good luck!
