[horsedolls]

Do riding schools usually teach you to gallop? Ive never seen a horse at my riding school gallop before. I want to be able to gallop one day~

when did you learn to gallop and how?
and if you havent learned are you looking forward to learning one day?

[Rising Star]

Usually they will teach you w/t/c/g. It really depends on the riding school and your level. If your able to control your horse at w/t/c and there is enough room they might.

I learned to gallop at a young age. Me and my friend used to always go for trail rides all the time in the summer when I visited my grandparents and we would chase rabbits and stuff. Shes also a barrelracer so we would take turns keeping the horses in shape and doing the patterns

[Buckshot]

At both the stables I have ridden at, I don't think they teach gallop. I pretty much learned by myself, but Marrker and Sara were good teachers.

[RIDINGisLOVE]

Most riding schools don't teach a gallop.
Mostly for safety reasons... ie: space, control etc.
and plus, gallop isnt really something you need to learn, of course its fun, but there are more important stuff for your coach to teach you.
Mabye if you were to ask your coach, all riding schools are different.

[ShezaBayDoc]

We used to have BIG group trail rides at my barn, in which there would be galloping. Did we learn it? No. Just happened. The trail rides were really mostly boarders anyway...
I learned bareback the first time I took my geldin gon trail. Fun stuff.

[SilentSpring]

I didn't really "learn"...it just sort of happened. I was 12 years old and had just moved to an eventing barn. It's not like I really noticed, but many times out cross country I would have gotten to a gallop. I've now been leasing a horse for 2 years at my most recent barn, and I've galloped her many times -- when we've been hacking in big fields mostly, and sometimes we'd just go out to the big field behind the barn after a ride and have a gallop.

I love it There's no feeling like it.

[LuvmyNSH]

i learned to gallop when i was on one of those "old" trail horses up in Ocala, i had never ridden him before, but i remember his name was Beans, and on the way back to the barn he decided he really wanted to go right then and took off with me, at the time i was only 6..so i was screaming, which made him run faster...needless to stay ill stick to riding my own horse now!

[Flyingchange]

well my first gallop was on my friends little appalossa pony Pixie,she was a real fire ball but lovely to look at,i loved racing my friend i was always on pixie,and my friends always rode coke a clydsdale mare.

[ShowJumper23]

I wasn't taught how to gallop. The first time I ever galloped, I decided to take a bareback spin on a neighbors horse. He wouldn't slow down, and soon he was at a gallop. Scary as ****, but so much fun....then I fell

[HorseBliss]

i dont think i was taught how to. the first time i remember galloping was when i was in a lesson. it was after camp that day had ended, so naturally the horses were tired and didnt wanna work any more. i went past one of the in/out gates, and the pony decided he was done, and ran out of the ring. he went galloping to the field, and naturally i pulled him up ........... haha yeah right. i was enjoying it so much haha and sometimes when we'd go cross country in a lesson, we'd gallop back up the field when we were done, the cool down of course. but i was also at a very "ghetto" barn.