From John Lyons Trainer Keith Hosman

Rein In Your Horse's Speed Online Course
A Downloadable Book

A sample from Day 5:

"The key in all of the exercises is this: You've got to look for every opportunity to relax those reins. Quit pulling. Horses aren't nags, neither should you be.

Now, you may have a horse that wants to take off at a dead run if you give him back any amount of rein. If that's the case, then you need to use the exercise assigned on Day 3, "Steer the Tail." Try your level best to ride with the least amount of pressure you can and each time the horse begins to speed up, take a single rein and turn his tail "the way you don't want to go." Example: Your horse speeds up, you take the left rein and apply the pressure it takes to get the left shoulder to stop and the hip to move several steps to the right.

Or, you can do the exercise described yesterday: Pick up a single rein and simply move the hip a step or two off the track he's on. Keep moving and do this over and over. (In the first exercise, "Steer the Tail," you stop moving forward, in yesterday's you don't.)"

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From the How to Train a Horse Series:

"Every time you teach an exercise, your horse will go through the same learning cycle. He'll go from "Bad" to "Good" to "Worse" to "Not So Bad" to "Learned." That's the typical cycle: Bad. Good. Worse. Not so bad. Learned.

You know "Good." "Good" is where we get excited. It's the part where we want to show off to our friends. We want to show somebody how soft our horse has become, so we walk over to brag to somebody, pick up our reins and the horse sticks his nose straight out, stiff as a board. We're embarrassed and our friends snicker. We've just entered the "worse" stage. It's the part where "he was getting but now he's not."

It's during the "worse" part where we typically second-guess our training. "The horse was good but now he's worse. I must be doing something wrong." You begin to think you need to change what you're doing. "Maybe my hand's in the wrong position" or "I'm using too little pressure." You begin to think you're doing something that's not correct. That's when we're most likely to change what we're doing. But that's the most important time for us to not change, to keep on doing what we're doing. You've got to get through this stage by being consistent. Keep doing the same thing over and over so that the horse realizes all the movements that are "mistakes" and which single movement is correct. It's consistency and time that teach your horse."

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