Hello and welcome to episode Eighteen of The Equine System podcast. The Equine system is all about training horses and being the best leader that we can be for our horse.

This episode focuses on separating the hind quarter cues from our shoulder cues. The better we can separate the hinds from shoulders the more advanced movements we can achieve with our horses. Our groundwork recaps on our one rein 10m circle work and looks at improving how our horse connects to our energy and responds to our 3 inside reins.

Bending - Flexes the head and neck

Open - Creates space for the shoulder

Closed - Closes the door on the shoulder and allows the front legs to move out away from us.

This lesson will help us improve our laterals, shoulder in and yield in sessions to come.

There are a couple of things that you need to know before we start. We want to be the leader of our horse, not because we want to be the boss or because our ego is inflated when we're in charge. I like to be the leader of my horse, because I like to make decisions that keep us both safe and.... if I can be the leader of my horse, we can achieve impossible things together.

Each session of season two will start with a safe horse, a motivator and yourself, in a safe environment. Horses are unpredictable animals; it is important that if you are learning these exercises, you do so on an educated safe horse which is appropriate for your ability and skill level.

Today I'm in an arena, I've got some walls. It doesn't matter if you haven't got a fancy arena, but if you're working up against barbed wire or your horse is afraid of the tools that you're using, probably you should have a look at the equine system on YouTube and see how we got a wild Brumby stallion to the level that we're going to be working with today.

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