hey everybody thanks for joining me today in this video I'm going to show
you what I like to do with a horse before I start them under saddle as far
as ponying goes ponying is basically just the act of riding a horse and
leading another one behind so in this video I'm using Petra and Petra has
never actually PO need a horse that she doesn't know before I do a lot of
ponying with horses that are gonna herd as you can see right there what just
happened is ona decided to that she was gonna stop and I have the Rope just
looped around my horn it's not it's not wrapped around there but it's just
looped and then I'm holding on to it so if she goes to pull back at all I can
keep the pressure there without her being able to pull through it so this is
gonna teach her to go forward with pressure so as I'm going around here I'm
just doing a little bit of walking and trotting doing some circles and just
trying to get on his feet freed up so she follows along nicely I really like
to do this out on the trail it's a great way to get a young horse exposed to a
lot of different things and it's also really good for having the horse be able
to see you from riding position perspective so ona's able to see me up
above her I'm able to touch her I'm able to bump her with my legs and move things
around and it's just really gonna be beneficial for when I do actually start
riding her
like I said earlier this is the first time that Petra has ever PO need a horse
that she doesn't know and I'm really happy with how she's doing because
there's no crabbiness out of her she's she's really nice and gentle with ona
and she's allowing her to sniff her and touch her and that's exactly what I want
so I'm happy with that and the nice thing too is I'm able to take a horse
that I ride and put her to work and use her for an actual job so she is actually
helping me for something that I'll be doing later and it makes it a lot more
fun too it's nice to be able to use use a horse to to work with another now here
what I'm doing is I am moving ona's hindquarters over so I'm taking
her and getting her to on track her hindquarters and move in a circle
now what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my right toe and just sort of bump
on ona's side a little bit and see if I can get her to move her hindquarters
to four left so that worked out really well so this is nice because I can
actually work on some leg pressure on ona before I even get on so she's gonna
be used to my legs being there some horses really don't like when you bump
their elbow so I can rub my leg around and kind of bump her in the elbow with
my toe just so it's not something that's gonna startle her later
as I'm asking her hind end to roll towards the right
I want her left hind leg to be crossing in front of the right hind leg so this
is gonna help me in the future for my one rain stops your turn on the forehand
a lot of different things and involve moving the hindquarters
now I'm just gonna take the end of my lead rope and just gently toss it over
on his back just so she gets used to the feel of things moving around on her and
this gives me the opportunity as well to reach over her back so she sees me from
both sides sometimes horses get worried about changing eyes so they'll see you
from one side but then when suddenly you appear on the other side you know that
you go through there blind spot and it makes them a little nervous so this is a
great way to get her used to you know the end of my Makati rain or anything my
my lariat whatever moving around on her
next I'm gonna be moving on to using my rope so what I want to do is I'm going
to be taking my rope and swinging it around while I'm on Petra and trying to
get on I used to just the the look of it the feel of it and everything that goes
along with swinging a rope around a horse so this will really help her for
when the time comes when I want to start swinging a rope off of her she's already
seen it overhead she's already seen it in front of her alongside of her and
she's already felt it alongside of her body so this is going to be really
helpful for the future now I'm not particularly good by any means at roping
or my technique of swinging a rope really needs a lot of work but that's
okay because with all that all of my my fumbling and kind of bumping into her
with the rope is gonna be good for her too so this is a good good learning
process for me as well I use my rope for a lot of a lot of dragging things around
and just kind of fiddling with my horses and stuff with it but as far as roping
skills go I am definitely working on that
here I'm just getting on I used to the feel of the coils kind of tapping on her
this is gonna come in handy when I do start her under saddle because if I
wanted to use my rope at all to help her move her feet she's already used to me
tapping her with this and it's not gonna startle her at all so this will be
something that'll just be kind of normal to her and I can use it to my to my
advantage later if I if I need some assistance and getting her to move her
feet
now that we're all done with all of our moving of the hindquarters and getting
used to the rope and everything else that we were working on I'm just gonna
go back to what we started with and go for a little trot around the arena and
work on just getting those feet freed up a little bit more and I like to switch
back and forth the things a lot just to keep things interesting for the horse so
I'm really happy with how she did today and I look forward to doing this a
little bit more
when I change direction while Pony in another horse I'm very careful not to
allow my lead rope to get stuck underneath the horse's tail that I'm
riding so I'm really aware of where my rope is at all times and I try not to
let the horse that I'm pony and cross behind the horse that I'm riding because
that could turn into that could turn into quite a bit of a wreck I I do
everything I can to get my horses used to that but things do happen so that is
something that I'm always really aware of
that concludes our first pony session I'm really happy with how everything
worked out and I'm proud of both my ponies they did a great job if you
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