Saturday, 30 March 2013

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One exercise the students learn in my course is to lungeing a horse. It means that the students have to handle and instruct the horse from the ground and when they do this they have a lungeing rein between themselves and the horse. The horse circles around the leader (student) in different pace and the leader has a lungeing whip as an extra forward aid from the ground. Why the students have to learn this, is because it is a good complement to riding the horse and sometimes it is good for the horse to work without a rider on its back. The students will train their “horse eye” and learn how the horse looks like when it works correct with the whole body.   

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  2. Hi Kristina! Can you explain why the horse have to have this blanket?

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    1. Hi Lena! It is because the horse is "shaved" :) and also because the temperature. I think it was very cold that day.

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    2. Hi Kristina! Sometimes we have - 15*C and no blankets.....

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