Horse Reining Competitions

Four Tips For Winning Horse Reining Competitions

Do you desire to win horse reining competitions?

Congratulations on making it this far in the EasyHorseTraining.com course. You’re equipped to begin reigning! This write-up is jam-packed with tips that can help even the most advanced rider with a thing or two!

Reining is a horse competition or event that is somewhat similar to figure skating. A horse and its rider will need to finish a pattern that will display the skill in movement, ability of the rider to maneuver the equine, and the athletic ability of the horse.

The motion patterns that need to be displayed by the horse and rider are divided in 4 fundamental maneuvers – Sliding stops, lead changes, turn arounds, and circles. Maneuvers might be shown many times and in both directions. Every couple (rider and horse) will show 8 types of maneuvers on the average. It will afterwards be scored depending on how effectively and precise the maneuver is carried out.

Horse reining is actually a competition of western riding. All maneuvers are done in a lope, a relaxed type of horse gait which is very similar to the canter, and gallop, the fastest of all horse gaits. Reining is the western counterpart of dressage riding. In horse reining competitions, the responsiveness, and the syncing characteristics of the horse and rider are greatly considered. The aids should not be obvious and ought to be quite discreet. Of course, the physical ability of the equine to execute a pattern of actions is additionally taken into account.

The rating system of horse reining competitions is the 0 to 1 ½ system. The overall score starts from 70 and it will be scored appropriately by adding or subtracting from 0 to 1 ½ based on how the movements are maneuvered.

Here are some horse reining competition tips:

1. Accuracy and precision still remain supreme

Anybody can impress judges with set of patterns that may seem to blow the mind. However, accuracy and precision remain the principal factors of judging and you need to be mindful when doing your set of maneuvers. Make certain that you and your equine have mastered the movements and don’t just breeze in with no consideration to accuracy and precision.

2. Condition your equine to peak performance

The majority of the physical work is from the horse. Keep in mind that the physical athlete here is both you and the animal. Make sure that you prep your horse and take care of his nutrition. Sometimes, in really hard competitions, the dividing line in between winners and losers is in the way they take care of their horses.

3. Impress with speed

If your equine is physically talented with speed and agility, show it off. Use it to the fullest of its advantage. Display maneuvers that flaunt the animal’s physical strengths. By no means forget that a perfectly executed fast maneuver will always top a slower one. At times fast maneuvers with modest faults may even trump very slow maneuvers even when done perfectly.

4. Hide your cues and aids

The horse needs to appear unaided. Once you allow your aids to be observed by the judges that simply tells the judges that the horse is not willingly guided. You need to appear to be in full control to the point that the horse will practically appear like an extension of your body.