MiniThymeAcres
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Hey there, :saludando:
I have a couple questions related to training for the show ring. Both seem like hard problems to fix, but I hope that with a little help I can fix these problems.
My first one deals with liberty. I practice liberty often at home, in my driving ring in the back. It is a large oval, I cannot think of the dimensions off the top of my head right now. But anyways...at home I can get Wind Dancer to run the whole length of the arena, and even get her to do some pretty things, like figure-eights and serpentines. However, when we're actually in the show ring, it's a different story. She tends to get stuck on one side of the arena and just runs around in a small circle. I hoped that with more training over the winter, this problem would be cured, but I can't help but wonder if she'll do the same thing at the first show.
Our driving ring has a large tree towards the center of it, similar to the judge's area in the middle of the ring at the Chemung County Fairgrounds arena that we show at, so technically the set up's are similar.
Does anyone have any suggestions that will help her get to the other side of the arena at the shows?
My next question is concerning to hunter. At most shows we participate at, there are flower box jumps and brick walls, and other different sorts of jumps. At home, Dancer will jump these. At the show, she usually gets to it, stops, and sniffs it. Last year, I stopped doing hunter and did jumper because the jumps weren't used in jumper. It seemed like no matter how much I did flower jumps and stuff at home, she still refused them at the shows.
Any tips for that?
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Thanks
I have a couple questions related to training for the show ring. Both seem like hard problems to fix, but I hope that with a little help I can fix these problems.
My first one deals with liberty. I practice liberty often at home, in my driving ring in the back. It is a large oval, I cannot think of the dimensions off the top of my head right now. But anyways...at home I can get Wind Dancer to run the whole length of the arena, and even get her to do some pretty things, like figure-eights and serpentines. However, when we're actually in the show ring, it's a different story. She tends to get stuck on one side of the arena and just runs around in a small circle. I hoped that with more training over the winter, this problem would be cured, but I can't help but wonder if she'll do the same thing at the first show.
Our driving ring has a large tree towards the center of it, similar to the judge's area in the middle of the ring at the Chemung County Fairgrounds arena that we show at, so technically the set up's are similar.
Does anyone have any suggestions that will help her get to the other side of the arena at the shows?
My next question is concerning to hunter. At most shows we participate at, there are flower box jumps and brick walls, and other different sorts of jumps. At home, Dancer will jump these. At the show, she usually gets to it, stops, and sniffs it. Last year, I stopped doing hunter and did jumper because the jumps weren't used in jumper. It seemed like no matter how much I did flower jumps and stuff at home, she still refused them at the shows.
Any tips for that?
Thanks
