THE HORSE GAZETTE
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25 miles East of San Antonio off IH-10 • Seguin, Texas showmanship basics
Part 2 of 2
By Mary Nelson © 2009
BOARDING:
L a s t m o n t h w e also use this to your advantage.
in showmanship you should be stand still while you move
discussed the importance of If your horse tries to move his
standing on his left side in a way around him.
• Stalls with 40-foot runs • 2-acre turn-outs with sheds WHOA. Hopefully, you have hips off to the left push or pull
such that your belly button is Do not strive for per-
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found these exercises useful in his head to the right to correct
pointed towards the point of his fection just yet. If you get your
beginning your showmanship him. Pull his front end left if he
shoulder or your toes towards horse to place his foot within
training or just as a “good man- swings his hips right.
his toes. Start this now so that the generally area that you
Lessons: Training:
ners” exercise for your horse. Squaring your horse
your horse will begin to read want pet him and praise him.
If your horse will up quickly and correctly has
your body language and learn Let him stand for a few sec-
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now stand still for at least a several advantages. As our
to associate this stance from you onds then walk him forward,
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to mean “square up please.” The
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short period of time (I like to topic covers showmanship at
say whoa, turn your body into
get them to the point where I halter we will begin with the
reason you stand this way is so the correct position and square
can brush them all over and halter class to show you where
that you may see your horse and/ him up again. As you work on
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pick up their feet on both sides the showmanship comes in. A
or the judge with just a slight this you can begin to ask for
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without them moving around) horse that is presented well,
movement of your head. his position to be more and
then it is time to start teaching to his or her best advantage,
When teaching a more correct. Correct meaning
your horse exactly WHERE will have a higher chance of
horse to square up I always all four feet square under his
and HOW you want him to placing in a halter class than a
begin with his back feet. I will body with a width between his
stand still. Keep in mind while horse that is squared up poorly.
push him back and pull him feet that fits with your horses
working on these things that A horse that will not square up
forward with the lead one full conformation.
your horse’s rear end is going quickly or cannot be corrected
step or just half steps until I get While you are per-
to go away from his front end. quickly may be passed over by
his back feet fairly square. This forming this exercise you will
Therefore, you must be careful the judge and not get a seri-
may take a while. You may have be inadvertently teaching your
not to pull on the lead. This ous second look This is where
to pull your horses head slightly horse to move forward and
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will cause your horse to move showmanship gets the 3 second
towards you or push it slightly back on your cue. This will
his head and shoulders and he rule. Ideally your horse should
away from you to move one lead into next month’s exercise
in mind that
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will then be forced to move his square up correctly by the count
specific foot. Keep which will be getting your
hips to stay in balance. You can of 3. This is an ideal and by no
his rear end is going to go in horse to walk and jog correctly
means what we are aiming for
the opposite direction from his beside you.
right now.
front end. Once I get the back You can contact Nel-
For now you simply
feet set I will say WHOA and son Training Center at 512-
want to be able to move your
praise and pet him. Once again 567-5526 or 512-556-3308
horse’s feet around while keep-
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ingCenter.com. Mary Nelson
spot, (where you said whoa.)
You may have to help him out has training severl World &
First position yourself cor-
by placing his feet with your Reserve World Champions in
rectly. To square your horse up
hands for a while. This is why Showmanship & Halter.
it is so important that your horse
color genetics
color wheel with prism
bred a Black Tennessee
World Champion with Jim Young in Amateur Aged Stallions
Walker to color paint donkey
Dear Prism,
to answer within weeks of stallion or a dunalino stallion,
Ryan Henderson, Reserve World Champion, Open Aged Stallions
I just bred my Black
a foals birth. Unfortunately or a black bay or a perlino.....
Tennessee Walker to a gaited tri
between birth and two years of what stallion would possibly
color paint gaited donkey. Can
age young horses can change give me a better chance.... the
JMK Mega Fella, Owned by Jim Young & Cindy Garrett of Cuero, Tx
you tell me the possibilities of
colors dramatically. With his buckskin??? the Dunalion
the color’s I can expect. There
being “mousy” along the neck, (palomino) carries the black
is only a small spot of white on
I’d say he will be a darker gene. I just got this mare she
Terry or Ryan Henderson • P. O. Box 115 • Stockdale, Texas 78160
my mare on the hind hock of
buckskin and may even express is an older mare I am looking
one foot. Hopefully if will be
“mock dun” factors; face mask, at 2-3 more years of foals with
gaited but I have no clue what
cobwebbing, etc. - Prism her and that’s it so I have been
830-996-3185 (Ranch) • 210-387-7115 (Cell)
color to expect. – Gay Crocker,
Dear Prism,
doing some research on it and
submitted via www.HorseGa-
it looks to me like the buckskin
I have a bay mare but the Palomino has a good
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thts@the-cia.net
zette.com.
whose mom was bay, the mom chance.... would like to here
comes from a long line of bay what you think. – Bernice, sub-
Dear Gay,
and brown horses. My mare’s mitted via
HorseGazette.com
father is grey and has thrown
That all depends on
bay, sorrel, grey, buckskin, cre-
Dear Bernice,
Paddocks
the background of the two – if
mello offspring. I am thinking Let’s clear up one
both have a red parent/grand-
about breeding her to another misunderstanding, a Dunalino
parent you could possibly get a
bay stud. What are the offspring is indeed a Palomino Dun – that
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sorrel/chestnut. You could also
possibilities? – Ellen, submitted said, a Dunalino does not carry
get a Black or bay, that would
via
HorseGazette.com the black gene as Palomino is
depend on whether or not the
Covered Arenas
bay donkey throws his Agouti
Dear Ellen,
a sorrel (homozygous for red
gene) with one dilute gene and
gene. Whether or not you get
To begin with, the sire a Dunalino is a Palomino with
a paint also resides totally with
is gray but has produced sorrels the Dun gene. And we know
the donkey and whether or
and cremellos. Right? That that Grulla is black with the dun
not he passes his paint genes.
tells me under that gray coat he gene. So you want the foal to
- Prism
was probably born Palomino or inherit the black gene and the
Buckskin. As he would have to dun gene. I would stay with
carry a dilute gene to produce a the black genetics and hope
Dear Prism,
Cremello foal. We know your the mare passes the dun gene
Hi Prism, I have a
mare did not inherit the dilute and the sire does not pass the
beautiful two week old buck-
gene since she is bay (black Agouti (Bay) gene. To increase
skin colt, who is a lovely but-
plus Agouti) instead of Buck- those odds, I’d find a nice black
tercup yellow especially on
skin (Black plus Agouti plus stallion and cross your mare
his rump, going slightly more
Dilute) and we also know, if my on him – would give you a
mousey on his neck. He has
supposition about her sire being 50% chance of dun on a black
black legs, mane and tail and
a Palomino at birth is correct, base. To breed to any of the
black mask. His dad is a palo-
she is probably heterozygous other colors would introduce
mino welsh pony and his mum
for black (carries one black the red genetics and enhance
a bay/brown thoroughbred.
gene and one red gene). So, the Agouti (Bay) genetics. -
I’m wondering if you can tell
depending on the Bay stallion Prism
me what color he will end up?
and his color background you
Will he stay this pale or darken
could get a Black, Bay or Sorrel
with age? – Sarah, submitted via
foal. - Prism You can view more
HorseGazette.com
Dear Prism,
questions/answers online at
http://www.horsegazette.com/
Dear Sarah,
I have a grulla mare, Color%20Wheel/Wheel.html
I want to breed for a grulla foal, or email questions to editor@
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I have a buttermilk buckskin
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