How Do You Round Pen A Horse?
Starting a young horse? Need to tune up your horse’s ground training? Do you have a problem horse? Round penning is a great training tool for all disciplines and all horses.Round penning teaches horses to respect you, one of the most valuable lessons as far as safety and trainability. The exercises below use body language—horse body language—to establish your authority over the horse. If you are just starting a young horse, round penning will create a good base of respect in your horse for future training; he will learn to pay attention to what you want him to do, and that will trickle down through all his future training.Round penning is also very useful if you have an older horse, perhaps with some behavioral problems such as crowding you on the ground, refusing to be caught in the pasture, or not paying attention to you under saddle. The following exercises will help your horse return her focus to you, respecting your body and your commands, both on the ground and under saddle.Becau
