what does she know?

[jUmPingIsLifE]

i rode my moms western trail horse today. other than that her old owner rode her english i have no idea what all her training has been in. i know she did race (STB). anyway today it was so hot but i had such a graving to ride!
my horse has been lame so i got on ms.western horse and and tried to do some bending at the walk. just doing walk exersizes. well she was soooo good! than i wanted to see how much i could get so i used a lot of my leg and that horse was doing the cuttest little side step! i did it both ways cut across the diagnol. i don't know what i was doing, but i think she knew what she was doing.

i think it would be fun to play around with her a little bit more, i don't have a lot of time because i have my horse and pony to ride so i wouldn't be able to ride her much. but i think it would be fun to get someone up and ride her (a dressage person) to see what she knows? because i have never had a dressage lesson i just kinda played around with her but the way she was moving just astonished me and my mom.

was she just doing what she thought i was asking or do you think maybe she had some training in dressage? is it worth it really to pay someone to come up and see what she knows? i don't know if i should, but i think it would be fun!

[cvb]

.. if you knew she had been trained before or not ?

If she has been trained, then you have the choice what to do next - stay as you are or use it.

if she has not been trained, maybe its just a natural talent - but the choice is still the same !

if you are interested in exploring it, why not have a lesson on her. And it does not really matter if its english or western,as both have lateral work - just different names and different outline.

[IrisSilverMoon]

or maybe she's had training in reining...which is like dressage for western riders.

Lots of western horses do half pass and leg yield and that sort of thing, i think it might surprise a lot of people because you don't really think of western horses as needing to be trained that stuff. But it makes sense, a horse that can menuver easily is a whole lot mire useful at herding cattle than one that just goes in circles all day.