• Preview: Teaching The Stop

The stop is one of the most important things we can ask from a horse says Corey. In this first two part video series with Corey you will learn:
* Why the stop is about accepting your hands and getting them to shuffle their feet behind
* Yes you want them soft but soft is not about having their chin on their chest
* Why you have to be pushing forward to teach the stop
* Don’t worry if they are a little rude in the face in the beginning
* Why you don’t stop a horse and then ride forward again
* Corey demonstrates what drills he does to help a horse stop
* Why a horse may be stopping on his front end
* Why collection is about controlling the body, not bend in the neck

  • Part 1  Corey demonstrates how to get a horse to accept your hands and shuffle his feet behind. Corey wants to always be pushing his horses forward and doesn’t like to ride forward after stopping because its a contradiction of what you were just trying to teach them.

  • Corey talks about how he advances the stop and how he gets them to be quicker to the ground in the stop! He also gives two of his assistant trainers a lesson on how to build speed into the stop.