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hey! i bought a four year old paint gelding a few months ago.(he's turning five tomorrow!:)) i couldn't ride him tho b/c of my stupid grades and i got grounded. then when i did ride him he behaved really well. but when i tried to lunge him, he kept trying to come to the inside. Even when the owner of the barn i board him at worked with him, he kept trying to come in. I've tried using a lunge whip but it didn't work. he just got all scared and wouldn't do anything. I've even tried lunging him without the lunge line but, that didn't do much to help. if you have any advice, please help me! Thanks for any answers!
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| I dunno if this will help but here I go.. So you need two people. One have the LUNGE line and you have the LEAD one. Okay, so this is a workout. Just run with the horse in the circle until he/she gets used to going around. Use a crop with you so if she/he doesn't work good, spank him with it from behind or just crack a lunge whip. A spank or few won't hurt it a bit. OR just free lunge him/she. xD I doubt this is going to work. xDD
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He may not know how to lunge . . . Did his old owners say he could?
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He may not know how to lunge . . . Did his old owners say he could? That's what I was thinking...
One time someone tried to lunge our 'special' horse is the barn, and they took him in the round pen and he just rolled. xDD
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I dunno if this will help but here I go..So you need two people. One have the LUNGE line and you have the LEAD one. Okay, so this is a workout. Just run with the horse in the circle until he/she gets used to going around. Use a crop with you so if she/he doesn't work good, spank him with it from behind or just crack a lunge whip. A spank or few won't hurt it a bit. OR just free lunge him/she. xD I doubt this is going to work. xDD That actually works xD I've had my mom run around with Dallas while he was on the lunge line because he fails at lunging to the right, and he was actually decent.
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HuntSeat (6/8/2009)
I dunno if this will help but here I go..So you need two people. One have the LUNGE line and you have the LEAD one. Okay, so this is a workout. Just run with the horse in the circle until he/she gets used to going around. Use a crop with you so if she/he doesn't work good, spank him with it from behind or just crack a lunge whip. A spank or few won't hurt it a bit. OR just free lunge him/she. xD I doubt this is going to work. xDD LOL this reminds me of when my mom did this for me when Kiss was being lazy and I couldn't move fast (like with my knee) and she made a game out of it lol but the next day when i did it by myself w.o. her out there she went perfect. hahaha sorry I'd say find out if he even knows how to lunge..
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Yeah, what else someone said, have someone leading him on the outside too, just to keep him out until he understands what he's supposed to be doing.
If he still tries to come in after you do that, use a longe whip. Whenever he tries to come towards you point the whip at is shoulder.
It sounds like maybe when you used it before you maybe didn't have it pointing at his bum while you longed?
You should look like this: think of it as making a triangle with the line the whip and the horse.
When he tries to come in adjust your whip to look like so and drive him out.
If he stops and just stares at you flick your whip and drive him back out to the circle. :P
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I pretty much agree with everyone else. Soem horse are actually trained, though, to stop and turn towards you. It's stupid and my horse did the same thing it just takes time and you have to work on it. Though I wouldnt reccommend the two people thing. Somehow I don't think it will work. A lunge whip used properly should work.
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Saddle Sore (6/8/2009)
He may not know how to lunge . . . Did his old owners say he could? i knew him(the horse-his name's Buck) when he was with his old owners. i would watch, so yeah, he knows how.
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