Tiffany’s PlaceReining
If you like dressage, but have your roots firmly down in western riding, you’ll probably find reining an ideal event. The sport of reining is another western discipline that rose from the working cowboy legacy. A challenging sport that calls for intensive training of both horse and rider, reining competitions require you to guide your horse through spins, circles, lead changes, and sliding stops at the slightest touch. In reining classes, horses are judged on their ability to execute various maneuvers with ease and grace. In freestyle reining, you’ll have a great time choreographing your routine to some catchy, crowd-pleasing music, and can often ride the whole routine in costume - horse included. Successful reining horses have good, balanced conformation and a solid foundation of western training behind them. If you want to get into reining, you should have excellent horsemanship skills in order to communicate effectively with your mount.
National Reining Horse Association
National Reined Cow Horse Association
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