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Topic: How to keep the head up?
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Lucky Duck
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posted May 17, 2004 04:11 AM
If my mare can get her head down, she'll buck and take off. When riding I can keep her head up (but feel like I am hauling on her mouth ![[Frown]](frown.gif) ), but on the lunge I don't have anyway to keep her head up. Is there any kind of training device out there for this kind of problem??
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A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.- Nuno Oliveira
Posts: 338 | From: Virginia | Registered: Jan 2004
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spyro1
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posted May 17, 2004 06:36 AM
I am a little confused by you wanting to keep her head up on the lunge line. That is where you want them to get their bucks out. Are you having probs under saddle as well? If so, I would suggest just pushing her through the bucks. Keep her moving forward and make her work hard when she bucks and takes off. She will learn that when she does this, it means more work for her.
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Posts: 2755 | From: Sunny South Florida | Registered: Aug 2003
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emsNkeeper
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posted May 17, 2004 07:02 AM
On the lunge line I put the reins up under the stirrups... it's not going to keep her head up up, but it won't allow her to nose the ground (which is what keeper trys to do).
All horses throw their heads down to buck... you just have to sit back, hold it up and ride on through, it's the only way to solve the problem.
Posts: 78 | Registered: Mar 2004
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Lucky Duck
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posted May 17, 2004 07:57 AM
The behaviour happens on the lunge and under saddle. I have always felt like the lunge is not 'a place to get bucks out' or to 'tire-out' your horse, but another way to work your horse and bucking just as inappropiate there as it is under saddle. She takes off after she bucks, so I think she has already been 'taught' to work after she bucks.
I just don't like hauling on her face to keep her head up... I feel like I am going to trash her mouth.
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A horse will never tire of a rider who possesses both tact and sensitivity because he will never be pushed beyond his possibilities.- Nuno Oliveira
Posts: 338 | From: Virginia | Registered: Jan 2004
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