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Horses - Horse Riding Tips

Horse riding is one of those activities that move quickly from being a hobby to becoming a real passion. Horse activities have been shown to benefit children, people with disabilities and those who need to gain confidence in their athletic abilities. It provides a social venue as well as an intensely satisfying human-equine relationship, that affects personal discipline as well as relatedness and tends to make people happier and more functional in other areas of their lives.

In this article I will give you a few basic tips to bear in mind when enjoying your horse riding:

First of all you really need to get to know everything about your horse - your horse personality, likes/dislikes, etc.. One of the most important things is to make a bond with them. You need to be able to trust your horse, and your horse needs to be able to trust you. Therefore spend lots of time with your horse, just to be around her - groom her, go into her stall and just pet her for a while, or whatever you feel comfortable doing. This basic connection is important because the horse then will be able to trust you later on, when you are riding her, and the horse will be more willing to work with you. It also allows you to bond with her, and get to know what she's actually like. Just spend every day with her for a while like this.

After you and your horse know each other better, you should start some ground training. You need to be able to get respect from your horse on the ground before you even hop onto her back. Try some simple exercises such as making your horse back up, move forward, and to the side with just a push of your hand. Lunge your horse, making sure she obeys your commands the minute you give them to her. Do some kind of ground work every time before you ride, so she will trust you when you get on her back.

When you have the trust from your horse you are now able to begin your riding training, and here are some basic Tips about your horse riding:

1. Rule number one in horseback riding is keep your heels down, because this make you much more secure.
2. Rule number two is.... keep your head and shoulders up and sit straight up and down or lean slightly back, because this puts you in a secure position for riding.
3. If your horse is going strong on the forehand or is lazy, you might want to try leaning back a little with your shoulders behind the perpendicular. This will make your seat stronger and push your horse forward into better movement.
4. My last tip is properly the most important advice about horse riding..I definitely suggest that you right from the beginning start to take riding lessons with an instructor. Riding instructors will teach you proper riding techniques, ground handling, etc... that will benefit you very much, so you dont from the start build in bad habits with your horse riding.

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Have Fun with your Horse and Horse Riding.

About the Author

Morten Hansen has been focused on the Horse area for several years and is mainly writing about subjects, that make it easier for people to work with and enjoy Horses. For more details about different kind of subjects relating to Horses visit our website www.HorseTips4you.com

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Horse Racing Handicapping - Viewing the Horses as Athletes

Too often we handicappers get into a rut of thinking in terms of numbers and names alone. For instance, we scan our racing form looking for jockey trainer combinations or the names of horses we are watching. At other times we think only in terms of numbers, as in who has the highest speed fig at the distance, etc. Many times there is one important part of horse racing handicapping we overlook and that is the fact that the horses and jockeys are athletes competing in an athletic event.

As some of the recent tragedies in horse racing have illustrated, this is a very demanding sport. It tests the riders and horses in ways that can be physically dangerous, even deadly. In order to compete a horse has to be in excellent shape. Many of the horses that compete from day to day are horses that have raced long enough to have sustained injuries in the past that the conditioner must be aware of and help the animal to overcome. We all know that some of the most successful trainers got to the top by being able to claim lame animals and get them fit and ready in a short time.

Horse racing handicapping therefore demands that we be able to judge a horse's physical ability and condition according to its most recent performance. But which performance do we go by, workouts or races? You may ask yourself, did the trainer send this horse out for an easy 3 furlong breeze because it couldn't manage more than that or because it is in fine shape and the trainer doesn't want to use it up in the morning? That is a good question and to answer it, look at the last race the horse ran. How recent was it? How does the trainer normally work this horse? In other words, this horse is an athlete and has muscles that must be conditioned and also a personality that must be considered. What works for one horse doesn't work for another horse and one trainer's methods may not work for one horse but will work for another. Remember, the first word in horse racing handicapping is horse, an animal, flesh and blood, muscle and bone.

So when you are handicapping think of the race as a competition between trained and conditioned athletes. See if you can figure out which athlete is conditioned the best and also has the best athlete on its back to help it along. Just once try to spend a whole day looking at the horses as athletes and let your horse racing handicapping be confined to athletic ability.

Workouts and times can be confusing but it really all comes down to Horse Racing Handicapping Basics.

Bill Gamble has been involved in horse racing as an owner and professional handicapper for almost fifty years. He has developed a way to compare workouts and pickout the really outstanding workouts using Whatsa willies?

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