Riding Journal update; learning to leg yield and side pass

Another thing he finds easy to understand as compared with the average pleasure horse are the individual aids to get different turns.

Snaffle versus Pelham

In general the horse community regards snaffles as the perfect bit, which is inappropriate. It is ideal for most situations and especially for flatwork and training. It is inappropriate for the abrupt changes of speed and going from loose to tight rein as one might do when needing to stop from a gallop in a sport like polocrosse.

Riding Journal: a polocrosse horse, a lesson given, and cleaning tack.

Surprisingly at canter he is not as balanced as I expected. I can see this when he disunites...Given that this gelding is quite competent at polocrosse his problem won't be balance...As for circles, he has clearly done few that are smaller than 30m diameter, and his turns he copes with by dropping his shoulder into the turn...Impulsion requires strength to support himself on the inside hind.