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21.01.2022 I have been approached on many occasions to explain engagement when talking about the way of going of the horse and rider. Firstly there is true engagement and false engagement and the two can very well be distinguished from each other once the viewer sees the difference. True engagement is produced by the Rider on a horse that immediately responds to the lightest squeeze of the riders inside calf to go freely forward. The forward motion, so long as it is channeled straight a...nd evenly under the horse's body, thrust the impulsion created up through the horse's shoulders and withers, raising the head and neck and allowing the horse to take a full stride with the forelegs matching that of the stride of the hind legs. Below Is the wonderful Col A POdhijsky demonstrating a very correct trot and the triangle demonstrates the correctness of the point of the nose falls exactly where the front hoof should fall !! thus engaging the full impulsion created by the hindquarter. In this case, it is the working/medium trot. See more

20.01.2022 One cannot get the horse in Balance and "onthe Bit" if the horse does not accept your contact through the bit on his mouth. He does not accept the aid to go forward from a squeeze from your lower leg and does not accept your seat evenly on his back !! So the cause of most horses problems is the incorrectness of the seat and balance of the rider and what the rider does with the reins and legs(aided by spurs/whip) to overcome this lack of ability in the Rider. This could all be greatly improved by work without stirrups and good Lunge lessons. A basic essential before any rider tries to improve or educate his horse!! Carin Salmon BHSI retired

19.01.2022 IF ONE DOES NOT WALK AROUND LOOKING AT THE GROUND, WHY DO SO MANY RIDERS MAKE THEIR HORSES DO SO ?? Carin Salmon

12.01.2022 The very Talented Kelly Layne and her New Grand Prix Horse Samitas, and some lines to help explain Engagement !! I will elaborate later !!

03.01.2022 ENGAGEMENT To continue from my last post about Engagement, the true Engagement, we should now discuss false engagement! False engagement is when one can see a lot of activity from the hind leg that is not matched in the distance of the ground covered by the forelegs! (and ultimately by the hind leg as the hind leg is just brought up and then put down again )this can be seen if observed carefully, by the fact that the horse's head (a line drawn from the forehead to the tip of... the nose and straight on to the ground) comes well behind that of the extending foreleg. in other words, the horse is behind the bit or overbent! As one can see in the picture below. As the horse cannot physically step with the forefeet any further than the place where a plumb line, attached to the horse's Headline (as described above)meets the ground, thus the horse's body cannot engage his back legs with his forelegs, as the head and neck are held down ( by softening the contact on the bit ) so the impulsion created cannot go through to the head and neck, and the horse effectively loses his balance! The action created by hindquarters will only go up and down and the forelegs will only flick forward, not take a longer stride! so creating a feeling of False Engagement and speed rather than fully engaged free forward movement, if allowed to continue like this it will lead to a lack of impulsion by the horse, becoming heavy on the Bridle and eventually Lame. All these factors can be seen in the photo below, one can see how far the horse is behind the bit and what it does to the natural way of going and how much the horse is out of balance and on its forehand and what an unpleasant ride it is for the rider. See more

01.01.2022 CONSISTANCEY Horses Do not understand" Now we do, and Now we Don't"! the human Bad Habit of Inconcistancy,which most amatureRider/Trainer suffers from, i.e now I don't mind if you move about while I groom or Handle you, but in the arena we must have immobility when I say so !! This way of training Is very confusing for the Horse and he will eventually ignore the Rider/Trainer completley!! It explains why the horse who has been warmed up in the practise arena, on long loose... reins allowing the horse to move around on his forehand with no contact,In the mis-believe that this will relax the horse. Then the horse resists and resents being "taken up in hand with a now strong contact" which then ends up in a battle by the rider of over using the right hand to nag the Horse onto the bridle, and over using the spurs to go forward. Any Harmony is lost and the willing ness of the horse is sacrificed for Unknowledgable modern concepts of what is training, and Training requires CONSISTANCEY by the Rider Trainer, either contact(a giving contact) or none( which will not result in any sort of Training )but not now we do and now we don't will end up In Confusion Carin Salmon See more