How to Enjoy Fall and Winter with Your Horse

focusing on your position. Spend some time in the saddle without stirrups or look for opportunities to try riding horses more or less finished than your own. For a fresh perspective attend a clinic or take a few lessons with a trainer youve always admired.
7 Take time to bond
If you spent the season boarding at a professional training barn oneonone time with your horse may have been limited to supervised lessons and schooling at shows with the trainer doing most of the midweek riding. It may be a good time to move your horse closer to home. Ask yourself what you enjoy most about your hobby is it show ring success or the actual time spent with your horse? If you dream of daily grooming barn chores and trail riding with friends now is the time.
Think about your plan as you drive to the barn. Every skill can be broken down into a foundation of simpler tasks. For instance building blocks for flying change work would be hip control leg yielding and counter canter. But be flexible. When a training session hits a snag I will backtrack and break down the skill into simpler parts. I may never complete the lesson plan for that day because I had to go back and plug the holes. I see the lesson plan as a guideline only and not etched in stone Im ready to adjust it if needed.