Anyone got tips for me?

Question

so ive been riding and training on and off for 15 years.. i just got married 4 months ago.. in that 4 months ive only riden.. like 6 times... i owned 2 OTT Thoroughbreds... a paint and qh and an appy my whole life... i trained the paint and the quarterhorse... and taught my most recent OTT Hunters.. theyre all amazing horses..

well, here i am at fort drum... and ive been riding alot at this stable the past 3 weeks.. im totally confident in my riding skills. I was asked to finish training this stallion for 300 a month.. i rode him last week.. he seems pretty decent.. but i was wondering if anyone has any tips or techniques to make it easier because i forgot some of the important things i need to teach/

Answer 1

Riding a horse is like riding a bike. Once you do it you never forget.  After riding and doing the basics you will start remembering all of the stuff that you need to know. Maybe you should ride one of your horses and just do everything that you can think of and think of how you could teach that horse to do what the horse is doing.  You just need the cobwebs swept out. You will start remembering everything within a week or so. Just give it some time.

Answer 2

maybe hire a trainer just to watch you and give you tips on things you have forgotten or need to fix

it does help getting someone to watch you from the ground and remined you

Answer 3

I'm not trying to sound rude here, but it's a little fishy that you've only stopped riding these last 4 months and already forgot important techniques. I went a year without riding last year and once I got back on everything just came to me. My only word of advice if you really have forgotten is to tell the owner of this horse that you cannot train him. If you're not confident in your techniques and you don't know the right thing to do with this horse you shouldn't be training anything. it could end up in you or the horse getting hurt (especially with a stallion) or with a horse with poor training which may eventually lead to him hurting someone else. It's unsafe for you to be training.

Answer 4

Everything will come back to you, but if you have never ridden a stallion before, it will be different...you HAVE to get and keep his attention at ALL times....they are unpredictable and you need to be inside his head at all times...they have a one track mind, you know...seriously, if you can just tap him with the end of your rein while you are riding him, anything to keep him attention on you (a horse has a one track mind) it will be easier for you to teach him something...good luck and be careful.

Answer 5

No offense.. but if you owned that many horses and trained a bunch of them.. how would you forget important things?

sorry if i'm wrong.. I don't know anything about you..

ground manners are important.. but I don't know what disciplines you ride

so umm good luck with training a stallion.