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Horse Talk!
Balky? or just spoiled?
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<blockquote data-quote="hayray" data-source="post: 699597" data-attributes="member: 3046"><p>Sounds like she is for sure balky from some previous training. Horses have memory triggers from their previous training that they never forget, problem is that you don't know were these triggers are because you did not do the original training on her, that is why no amount of hard riding will fix this problem because when ever you activate this trigger accidentially then you are in trouble. Could be raising your hands, leaning backwards, or who knows. Best chance you have is to retrain the horse like the original trainer did not. The best chance you have to fix a balky horse is to teach them to move forward from the voice and whip by teaching the horse lunging because even though lunging seems so simple and obvious to do most people skip doing much of it, so therefore you might have a good chance to fix something. Program the horse to scoot forward from voice and whip and then when the horse has a balky episode you can use those aids as a cue to move forward since the horse most likely is already balking at the legs. Even so it could be pretty difficult to get this right and make the horse a good pleasure horse but you might be able to make it good enough to sell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hayray, post: 699597, member: 3046"] Sounds like she is for sure balky from some previous training. Horses have memory triggers from their previous training that they never forget, problem is that you don't know were these triggers are because you did not do the original training on her, that is why no amount of hard riding will fix this problem because when ever you activate this trigger accidentially then you are in trouble. Could be raising your hands, leaning backwards, or who knows. Best chance you have is to retrain the horse like the original trainer did not. The best chance you have to fix a balky horse is to teach them to move forward from the voice and whip by teaching the horse lunging because even though lunging seems so simple and obvious to do most people skip doing much of it, so therefore you might have a good chance to fix something. Program the horse to scoot forward from voice and whip and then when the horse has a balky episode you can use those aids as a cue to move forward since the horse most likely is already balking at the legs. Even so it could be pretty difficult to get this right and make the horse a good pleasure horse but you might be able to make it good enough to sell. [/QUOTE]
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