In spite of the fact that the horse – a clever animal and well gives in to training, training in each new skill should be provided, following certain rules in order that command execution was exact and qualitative. The horse can be accustomed to the Spanish step only after she seizes preliminary skills.
Instruction
1. Accustom horse to work astride and on a string. Especially pay attention to how it holds a croup when goes near the person holding it on a breast-band. Besides, it has to go accurately forward near the trainer, the equestrian or the groom, quickly and correctly to respond to an occasion, shenkel, the case, a waist. Also the horse should not be afraid of a switch.
2. Start training in the Spanish step if all preliminary skills are already set.
3. Execute at first an extension which is necessary for a horse to raise a leg on that height which is required for performance of this step.
4. Get up facing a horse, sideways from her that the left your shoulder and horses were the friend opposite to the friend. You hold a switch in the right hand. Slightly touch a switch the left part of a breast of a horse, take for the left hoof and raise a leg of a horse on small height. You watch that the leg was straightened. At this time praise a horse, without releasing a leg, and from other hand you will throw out a switch and serve it delicacy – sugar or apple. Do not raise the voice and do not wave a switch even if the horse will pull out a leg from your hand.
5. Be engaged at first only in the left leg, gradually raising it is higher and higher. The main thing here is to keep a leg of a horse of a straight line. Tap slightly with a switch only by the left part of her breast. The horse will understand over time that want from her, and itself will give a leg.
6. In a week begin to carry out the same extension of the right leg, tapping before exercise on the right side of a breast.
7. Gradually you pass to development at a horse of the correct and accurate reaction to a message. Get up on the left side face forward. You hold an occasion at withers in the right hand, and a switch in left. You watch a correct posture of a horse: the head has to be raised, the back is picked up, hind legs – under the case.
8. Call the assistant who will raise a leg of a horse if it does not react to percussion by a switch up to a breast. At the same time the fus team is said. The correct reaction of a horse has to be encouraged with stroking and a tender voice immediately. The main thing – not the height of a raising of a leg, but clearness of reaction to a message.
9. Start working off of the Spanish step in the movement, walking near it. If the horse refuses to move with the straightened leg, the assistant has to hit it on a croup slightly. Such movement is fulfilled at first from left, and then on the right side.
10. Do not allow a horse to be engaged in amateur performance, develop at it accurate reaction: to raise a leg only according to your team. Only then you will be able to train it in the real Spanish step.