The bow is a starting point when training a horse to lay down also an independent element of training. This graceful movement is often used in circus reprises and at competitions in a dressage. It is quite easy to train a horse in this element. The main thing is to stock up with patience and not to forget to praise an animal.
Instruction
1. Put on a horse chombur and a rope halter to make on her accurate impact. Get up from any party from it. When the horse learns to carry out perfectly bow, it will be possible to change the party. You praise it for each correctly executed step and award with the most favourite delicacy. Throw chombur on other side of a horse. Your hand at the same time has to lie on her shoulder. According to this sign the horse will bow with the rider sitting in a saddle. Take a hoof of a horse. Holding it in one hand, another undertake a horn of a saddle or withers. If the horse refuses to give you a leg, it is necessary to work this team more carefully.
2. Help a horse to transfer weight back, having slightly pressed on chombur or withers. That the horse bowed, lower her leg to the earth. Repeat bow several times, after successful attempt release a horse. It is important to do the same it how to praise and award with delicacy. Continue work on bows with the person in a saddle only if the horse learned to carry out them on both sides of and without saddle. You strive for smoothness and softness of execution: the horse at bow has to be weakened. Over time begin to award her with delicacy only for those movements which it executed most softly.
3. Show to a horse delicacy, bring it to a breast of an animal and say the bow team. After the horse stretches to a treat, give it, having praised her at the same time. At the next stage, having shown delicacy, you carry by it between front legs of a horse that she reached for it. Gradually you take away a treat further and further: to reach it, the animal will be forced to expose one or both legs forward. Do not forget to say the bow team. Perform these operations regularly to achieve performance of bow without delicacy. If it is impossible to accustom a horse to a voice command, clap it on inside of a front leg to show what movement it is required to be made.