I do love the concept of queuing for a halt! Makes total sense! I know we have always traditionally done the "whoa, release, hope" method in the past LOL

Love how you pack so much information into such a short video! I'm going to take these ideas and work on applying them to my horses! Thank you!

Wow, what a beautiful buckskin! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks a lot for sharing your experience with us.

The out takes were a blast to watch 😂. Marble is soo cute! Also its fun to see the progression in the horses from square one to thus far :)) congrats!

Thank you Stacy :)

ENJOYABLE GREAT JOB AND KNOWING YOUR HORSE

Well, thank you Stacy! I never had a good reason to hold light pressure to hold that frame, but it sure makes sense now...esp with the halt. I’ll be doing 5hat now instead of releasing everything

I wish I was closer to you and could go trail riding with you. 'Outside' is my nemesis and I get nervous. I know I just need to go do it. I have a young horse now but he has a good mind. Willow looks an awful lot like a horse I had a few years ago. Same color, same size, same disposition. Now I have a much more confident guy and I need to step up!

Great work, great video! Cheers from Russia

Thank you for sharing, very informative and interesting as always. And Marvel (?) your cat, awwwww 😻😻 did I get the name right? She is looooooovely. Please more, cannot wait.

@StacyLWestfall

5 жыл бұрын

Marble...but Marvel is a cool name too!

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Hi Stacy! I love this video! I'm an avid trail rider, but I'm transitioning into competing young horses. Could you clarify a few things about your trail training? Do you go alone on your horse's first trail ride? Do you worry about trail riding with sliders on?

@StacyLWestfall

5 жыл бұрын

I think that each horse is different. I have the ability to pony my young horses (as shown in the Stacy's Video Diary series here on KZread). So on my first trail rides I often either have my husband pony me or I follow him as he rides a horse my horse knows well. Really, it depends on how much riding time they have before I go to the trail. If they have a lot of arena time, I can go alone or off line. If I want to go out but I don't fully trust them, I add more steps, like being ponied. When I first started trail riding with sliders I was worried. I think the footing matters. Our horse do fine here in Ohio. If there was a lot of smooth rock it might not work. On the dirt under these trees we have no issues. The most slippery place with sliders is a parking lot! Once they can handle sliders on pavement they seem to understand quite a bit about 'how not to slide'.