Managing a Sensitive Horse Part 1
Adrienne Lyle
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23m
Adrienne helps a rider with her sensitive, hot mare. She suggests constantly pushing her off one leg and then the other to encourage her to stretch into the contact with ears level with the withers. Bending and stretching is important to get the horse to let the back go, and opening the throatlatch comes from the horse stretching forward, not from the rider lifting the neck up.
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