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Nov. 19, 2009
HORSETRADER Quarter Horse
The Five Easy Pieces:
Exercises to take control of your horse’s body zones
Continuing in a Series
This time, we continue discussing the topic
of Exercise No. 4: Hip Control. In the next
few installments, Les Vogt takes you through
exercises of his Five Easy Pieces. When you’ve
mastered them, you should be able to put any
part of your horse’s body where you want it,
without resistance.
Foundation Training for the
■ The hip control is so important
Performance Horse with Les Vogt
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aving control of the horse’s hips will
prove to be quite critical for almost all
your reining maneuvers. You’ll need it To check yourself, find a place on the rail
for departures, lead changes and turnarounds right next to a fence post. Now move the
particularly. Since many of the body control horse’s hips back and forth, both ways, with
exercises that we’ll be working on in the next his nose right on that post. When you can do
level will require you to it you’ll know you’ve
have some hip control, made real progress.
you need to get started on Point to remember:
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Start by walking along and most other things
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the fence. Pick a point to you teach your horse.
stop the horse and then We’ll never be strong
make very light contact enough to make a horse
with your inside (away do anything, but we can
from the fence) rein while be smart enough to
you reach back with your make him want to do it,
fence-side leg and push or and that’s what riding is
bump your horse’s hip all about.
around. You’re creating Since the shoulder
energy with your leg to element of Exercises No.
push the hip, and your 3 & 4 is so critical, I
brace rein contact will suggest you stay on the
lightly block him for fence with your attempts
pushing through with his at least until you can do
shoulder. both quite smoothly; we
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With the fence in front will come back to them
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of him you don’t have to in a few lessons and get
give your horse any other them perfect off the rail.
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options than to move his Staying on the fence just
hip. Do this exercise minimizes the horse’s
repeatedly (it’s called a alternatives and lets you
turn on the forehand) in pay more attention to
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which means fewer
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not perfect, don’t ask for come back to them.
the hip if you don’t have the nose. You need Next time, we’ll continue discussing this
(And it decomposes faster than
to insist that the horse maintain a soft poll, same topic, Exercise No. 4: Hip Control.
any other bedding product)
with no resistance, as you attempt the Editor’s Note: More with Les is a regular
exercise. California Horsetrader column. Les Vogt has
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move his shoulder over before his hip, go off including two wins at the NRCHA Snaffle Bit
and work on the previously discussed Exercise Futurity. Although Les still rides and
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For this exercise, you need to make sure the performance horseman. To learn more
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