My horse rears at competitions

Understand why rearing is not the real problem, and how teaching your horse to find rest changes what happens before it.

The rearing is not the difficult part

Your horse is sweet at home, but at shows he gets stressed and starts to rear. The rearing is only the end of the story. The problem is everything that happens in his body before it.

First, I give him a place where he can find rest, so he learns to slow himself down instead of being stopped. Then I help him feel where he holds tension, and let his eyes soften so he stops taking in everything around him.

Next, I change how he starts to move: relax the neck, then step behind and across, not forward. Practise this at home and before you get on at the show. It gives him back control over his own energy.

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