Postby whisperer » Wed May 27, 2015 7:55 am
I have a very well trained just turn 5 year old reining gelding (basic reining so no slides, things like that) he's perfect on the flat knows every cue and does it great, now when I put him on the pattern, everything's gone, he trots it good, ask to lope he does not switch leads in between the barrels and he will not rate! I think every horse I have had took those two things naturally and I never had to do anything really with them on that part of the pattern so I am stumped. What are exercises to do with him at that lope so that I can get him wrapping his mind around it like off pattern that I can apply to the pattern? Maybe I should stop loping it, but how much more do I keep trotting it?