It takes about 3-4 more steps before my horses stop. I think the fault must be mine. I use the Whoa command and pull back on the reins. I try to plant myself in the saddle and push my legs forward but I am usually only at a walk at the time and not moving much anyway.
what you need to do is not to pull back on the reins - just stop moving your hands so that the foreward movement is blocked, push your stomach towards your hands and stop as much movement in the hips as possible. make sure your horse is listening to you before you ask it to stop and that you have your shoulders back and heels down. it doesn't matter if it takes a few steps to start with, after practice the horse will get the idea and the halt will come quicker. hope this helps xx
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When u stop make the horse back up a few steps each time, that might help
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use a strong and stern even loud voice pull somewhat hard and say ho you just have to let the horse know whos the boss and you have to be really stern if your not a horse wont take you seriously think of it as a human they understand what you say
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If your horses are younger they may still be testing their boundaries a little. You may try a little more training.
Make sure you are pulling firmly on the reins and not giving the horse any slack.
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The 1st answer is good….plus you can train him to know when you want him to stop. 1st you squeeze with both leg (warning him) then sit back and then the reins..we train to stop by pushing reins forward instead of pulling. Only pulling if necassary…Good Luck.
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own and train horses all my life.
what you need to do is not to pull back on the reins - just stop moving your hands so that the foreward movement is blocked, push your stomach towards your hands and stop as much movement in the hips as possible. make sure your horse is listening to you before you ask it to stop and that you have your shoulders back and heels down. it doesn't matter if it takes a few steps to start with, after practice the horse will get the idea and the halt will come quicker. hope this helps xx
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I would suggest not pushing your legs forward. Because you keep moving, your horse thinks he should keep moving too. Sit deep in the saddle and be careful not to squeeze with your legs at all. When you ride practice lots of transitions, this will help him become more sensitive to your cues. Have someone watch when you ride. You may be giving mixed signals without realizing it.
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Here is a website that might help you.
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http://www.naturalhorsesupply.com/reins.shtml
Could it be the bit.
FYI: Most horses don't know what Whoa means.
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Try backing him up a few steps when you stop him.sit deep in the saddle and dont swing your legs forward. When he stops IMMEDIATLY let the pressure off the reins and congradulate him
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work in a small circle like in one end of the arena. start by walking the circle and then when you get toward the middle say whoa. then back you horse up a few steps, and then let him stand there for like 3-4 seconds that way he learns when he stops he gets a small break. then repeat going in the circle at a walk till he gets better then move on to a trot, then canter.
good luck
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worked on my horse.
That's not reasonable just from a walk, a few steps from a canter to a stop is okay but your horse needs to learn to halt. Try this exercise, it really helped me: Trot 8 steps, walk 2, halt. Once you can do that perfectly trot 6 steps, walk 2, halt. Repeat until you're down to 2 trot steps and halt without the walk steps. Then canter 8 steps, walk 2, halt. Repeat until you're down as far as you can go. I could only get to four, but some horses will go down to canter two and halt immediately. Also, back up after you halt.
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well you say that they stop after 3-4 steps. This is normal. They are not going to come to a screeching halt unless you are riding first level dressage. if they are being light on the bit and responsive to your aids then i would be happy with 3-4 steps. Also, i hope you ride western because you definately don't want to push your legs forward while riding english. That is a big no-no in the hunter ring.
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pull back as hard as you can, and then make them back up 1 step for every forward step they took after you told them whoa. my horse has this problem and doing this, she is more responsive and automatically steps back cuz she knows i'm going to make her do it anyways.
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dont sit down suddenly really hard. sit deeper in the seat, put more weight in your heels, then say whoa, then pull back on the reins. and are they trained to spurstop? then if you dig the spurs (if you wear them) into the horse a big and say whoa they may stop. just try different things, and practice it a lot. good luck!
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Let them take 2 sec at the most give them time work into it
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Do you have any one that can help. Sometimes having some one else watching you can be a big help. You could be sending mixed signals and not realizing it. It would be a lot easier for some on the ground to spot.
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PLEASE don't yank on or pull really hard on your reins or sink spurs into your horse. You will make a sour horse. We ease back on our reins and then ease loose. ALL of our horses are VOICE trained and if you tell them whoa every time you stop them, yours will soon be voice trained too, then they most certain DO know what whoa means.
We always teach out horses "EASY" just before "WHOA", so they know what is coming next. If not you will have some that will "whoa" so quickly when you give them the voice command that you will surely land on their neck!
The advice about backing your horse is great advice. FOUR steps backward…no more no less. Even though backing is required in some classes at shows, the 4 steps back feels a little like mild punishment to a horse and he will begin to do things right to keep from having to do that. Try it, it works. You do not want to have to do this for the rest of his life. Use the voice traing with this. As soon as he gets the message, you'll know.
Go easy on the mouth though or you will soon have a "hard mouthed" horse and you REALLY don't want that.
Best wishes.
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43 years of breeding, raising, breaking, riding, training, showing and winning.
here is my advice: A horse can only remember a command for about 3 seconds after he is asked, so don't let him forget if he keeps walking follow the other answerers advice.
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