Champion Horse Training Tip#23: Keep Your Horse Secure with Close Contact

Learn from the experience of World Champion Horse Trainers Cleve Wells and Troy Compton to keep your young horse secure with close contact.

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Troy: ...If I keep my drive going in the rear end it will always be there for me. I'll adjust that later on as we get more into it.
Cleve: You know Troy, one thing I am noticing right now is like, no matter who I go and ride with and learn from, just like you have a kind of constant kind of communication and connection with your hands and legs.
I think a lot of times people do a lot of in and out, in and out and I think everybody as a whole with the differences in their programs, they connect with their horse with their hands and legs and they stay there.
And they secure that horse, that's a security blanket.

Troy: Right now these are grade school kids, we are starting out kindergarten and for the next 6 months we are basically going to be about kindergarten through fourth, fifth grade with these things. Now, once we we start hauling them we expect them to act like they are in junior high. They are still under supervision and we are going to try to get them to where they can do this job on their own like a college grad would.

So those are the bases we go through, but at this point we don't want these colts jumping and getting away from us and when I move my hands I want it to mean something. I see a lot of tap tap tap tap tap on these colts and I think it develops nervous habits.

Our job as a horse trainer right now is to be calm, if this mare was to buck out from underneath me right now, I'm going to stay calm and try and work through it.

One thing about horses, we talk about feel a lot, but feel starts inside in your core and if you start getting tight on these horses and straighten your legs out and start getting off balance, you know you want to stay in here close to them and give them that security blanket, we are holding them...but I'm not pulling them.

Right now, I just work the same exact circle and if I can find my footfall as to where that horse stays on a correct circle. Then my body position is going to be consistent."
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