I haven’t driven in ages but all of my horses know- stand! (rather like a sit/ stay command with a dog;) ). That said I used to trail ride with some very annoying TWH people (nothing bad about TWH’s I have one too)- that thought it was bad if a horse stood still while mounting or waiting around. They actually trained their horses to take off the moment their feet touched the stirrups or to spin around in circle, popping up if we were bottlenecked on a trail, etc.- :eek: yuck! For some reason, I don’t ride with them anymore…
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I was being the impartial observer at a Pony Club Rating this past weekend in the cold and rain. One of the National Examiners, when hearing I was a driver, said “I bet your horse stands”, to which I answered, of course. She went on to talk about her event horse who did not stand. It is a pretty common problem I have talked about with other riding friends frequently since they are all amazed that my pony stands. My thought is that standing is very important to driving folks and trainers so they work on it, maybe not so important to riding trainers, so they don’t work on it as much. Really, if a horse won’t stand, how many of us are going to ever get around to driving him. To the point that one of my friends has decieded that she will send all her babies to a driving trainer first, to learn the ground work, then off to a riding trainer.[/QUOTE]
wether riden or driven it comes under basic trianing and one of which a horse is tuaght in its very 1st bouts of training-- ie when 1st handled – the very 1st thing you teach a horse is to stand and be lead - or stand and have its feet picked out or stand and be groomed stand for farrier stand for vet etc stand and wait – falls over into driving or ridden work stand is a command the horse learns to do from the very 1st part of his/her education…
if your freinds and asscoaites have trouble with getting there horses to stand then they seriously need to look at what they are doing to the horse every single day and i bet half of them give treats as turn out bring in grooming lifting feet etc — so horse learns to only do things for a sweetie – which in turns which huge nudges almost knock overs , when bring in or out walks passed with outseeing oyu, and when mounting walks off -
sweets reward a bad behaviour and make it ten times worse-- to effect horse wont stand or do things that are a simple request --at any time and at events etc
so smile— your horse is obediant and he respects you as you do him
and your triaining is spot on-- becuase he stands and waits
