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  Tyler 6:16 PM on February 12, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: oakey (2), training   

  Back into Training Oakey 

  A couple days ago I got back into doing some training with Oakey since the weather is getting warmer (20º rather than 5º ). When I left off last year I was working on leading. Now, after only three days work, Oakey is to the point where I can say “step up” and he’ll start walking. I rarely even have to apply pressure to the lead rope!

  I was having one small problem, though. I could lead Oakey straight and left, but whenever I’d try to turn right he’d run up next to me, blocking my path, and start dragging me away from where I wanted to go. I asked my horse friends online what I should do to fix the problem. They said to carry a riding crop out there with me and tap Oakey on the chest whenever he ran in front of me – this would tell him to step back to where he is supposed to be. I tried it, and it worked! Tonight in our workout, Oakey hardly gave me any trouble at all! It is so encouraging when I can worked with Oakey and actually see progress.

   

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  Tyler 5:21 PM on August 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: ground tying, Horses, oakey (2), spook, training   

  Horse Training Part 5 

  I now have a scheduled time in the day where I can work with Oakey, so I have been making some progress. First of all, I have started more seriously getting him to lead – he only needs a small amount of incentive now…. I also have been working on getting him to keep his attention on me when we are working together. Secondly, I have been training Oakey to not get spooked quite as easily. The way I do this, is by ground tying him (a fancy word for letting the lead rope lie on the ground…. there is no tying involved) and running up to him. At first he would would back up and start running. But now he hardly even moves!

  So that’s all I’ve been doing.

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    wes 10:12 AM on August 28, 2008 Permalink

    Neat! I’ll have to read parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 too.

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    Tyler 12:02 PM on August 28, 2008 Permalink