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Reinless Riding
Bea is one of my earliest video fans. Her praise and criticism helped me to design the content more suitably to the video medium. Instead of a homemade compendium, I now realize video is most effectively used to show the most difficult or unusual parts of training, thus seeing horses actually in training.
Bea is also most difficult to convince. Her thirst for knowledge is so intense she would sometimes stray from my methods. She wanted to try so many things that it was hard to convince her to try one method at a time, whether mine or anyone else's.
I mentioned to her how I developed a reinless riding system. I gave her the details and you can see her success in these photos. I hope she comes to California so we can meet in person.
Reinless Riding (c) 1999
A Cool Way To Train a Hot Horse!
by
Sylvia Burrage
I had done some riding reinless for many years, like Spanish Walk, passage, bow, and liedown. It was merely an added dimension to the trick. I had never thought of using reinless techniques as training tools until I started an explosive mare under saddle. The transition into canter set her off with an intense adrenolin rush that would not quit. After a leap straight up into the air off all four legs, she shot into a gallop so intense that we leaned about 40 degrees in from the vertical. Though in her other work she was reasonably normal for a hot horse, in canter, use of the reins made things worse. So I thought, maybe I can teach her without reins. Just use the reins occasionally to clarify to her what I wanted and not use the reins for restraint.
