{"id":55,"date":"2008-07-11T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-07-11T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:28:11","slug":"horse-training-principles-does-your-horse-crossfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/horse-training-principles-does-your-horse-crossfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Training Principles: Does Your Horse Crossfire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/authover.css\" media=\"screen\" \/>\r\n\t       <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/simplemodel.css\" media=\"screen\"\/>\r\n\t          <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n\tsrc=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery-1.7.2.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery.simplemodal.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/authover.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\t\tvar jq = jQuery.noConflict();\r\n\t\t\t\tfunction openPopup(url,width,height,delay,useajax,iframe,exitt){\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\talert(url);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tauthover.configure({\r\n\t\t\t\t\tiFrameAttribute : {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\" : \"autFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"id\" : \"authFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"src\" : \"http:\/\/wikipedia.com\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height\" : \"100%\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"width\" : \"100%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tmodalContent : url,\r\n\t\t\t\twidth : width,\r\n\t\t\t\theight : height,\r\n\t\t\t\tdelay : delay,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupUseAjax: 0,\r\n\t\t\t\ttargetUseIframe: iframe,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupIsRedirect: useajax,\r\n\t\t\t\texitAlertText: exitt\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t\tauthover.triggerModal();\r\nreturn false;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><p><strong>Does Your Horse Crossfire?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s trainer Andy Curry talking about crossfire:<\/p>\n<p>Months ago I interviewed pro horse<br \/>\ntrainer Danie Hewlett.<\/p>\n<p>She and her husband Doug train Reining<br \/>\nhorses.<\/p>\n<p>While talking she pointed out how horses oughtt to be good &#8216;leaded&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not &#8216;led-ed&#8217;,&#8230;it&#8217;s pronounced<br \/>\n&#8216;leed-ed&#8217; &#8211; like you would &#8216;lead&#8217; a horse.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after a horse is fairly broke<br \/>\nit simply boils down to whether the horse has physical and mental<br \/>\ncapabilities to to do reining maneuvers.<\/p>\n<p>But the #1 thing says Danie, is the horse should be &#8216;leaded&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>That means that when the horse runs<br \/>\nsmall and big circles, he should stay true to his lead.<\/p>\n<p>Danie noted that lots of horses cannot<br \/>\nrun fast without falling out of it&#8217;s lead.<\/p>\n<p>A horse in the correct lead has his<br \/>\ninside front and back feet leading.<\/p>\n<p>If the horse falls out of his lead, his hind end goes out<br \/>\nand suddenly his lead has shifted.<\/p>\n<p>This is called a &#8216;Crossfire&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>When Danie and her husband begin Reining training with horses,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s the first thing they look at.<\/p>\n<p>If they&#8217;re dealing with a horse that can&#8217;t stay in it&#8217;s lead,<br \/>\nthen they say, &#8216;Next&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Most horse owners don&#8217;t have that luxury.<br \/>\nBut the Hewletts do this for a living and it doesn&#8217;t make<br \/>\nsense for them to train one to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because they want the horse to stay in his lead naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Danie says there are too many horses that do it naturally<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s no sense in training a horse to do it.<\/p>\n<p>In Reining competitions, every time a horse goes out of lead<br \/>\na point is deducted.\u00a0 So from a competition stand point, it<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t make sense to work with a horse that does that.<\/p>\n<p>From the Hewlett&#8217;s point of view, it makes sense because it&#8217;s<br \/>\nhow they make their living.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you have a horse that falls out of his lead?<\/p>\n<p>Should you sell him and get a different horse?<\/p>\n<p>Naw&#8230;unless you want to.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to train them for Reining competitions<br \/>\nthen you might &#8211; otherwise&#8230;no.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll tell you this.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know much about Reining<br \/>\nyou should look into it because there&#8217;s a lot you can learn<br \/>\nabout getting your horse to do different things.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when we filmed Danie and Doug for the Reining<br \/>\nDVD&#8217;s, they showed how to evaluate a horse.<\/p>\n<p>Danie started off with some lungeing,<br \/>\nexplained what she was looking for, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good stuff to know if you&#8217;re going to stay in the horse<br \/>\nworld &#8211; even if you&#8217;re not going to train professionally.<\/p>\n<p>All horse owners have a responsibility<br \/>\nto themselves, their horses, and those around them to<br \/>\nknow all they can.<\/p>\n<p>This horse thing can get perplexing at<br \/>\ntimes and the more you know, the better off you are.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, if you want to know more about the Hewletts and their<br \/>\nReining info, click on the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-daniedoughewlett.html\" title=\"Danie and Doug Hewlett Reining DVD\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Danie and Doug Hewlett Reining DVD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example why it&#8217;s good to know this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know some horses have trouble giving their chin?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know why?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s because their neck is built such that it&#8217;s hard for<br \/>\nthem to do.<\/p>\n<p>Kinda like a muscular guy would have trouble scratching his<br \/>\nopposite shoulder because his chest is so big and he can&#8217;t<br \/>\ncross him arm over.<\/p>\n<p>In a way&#8230;it&#8217;s like that.<\/p>\n<p>A horse that can&#8217;t give his chin very good may choke himself.<\/p>\n<p>Then it will always be a fight &#8211; 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