Practice Session: 5-Year-Old Hottish Gelding
Team Roping Practice Sessions
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7m 13s
This gelding just started in the heading after spending two years in a cow horse program, and in this session Kirchenschlager works on keeping the horse’s shoulders up while turning off. He’s working on teaching this horse to have forward momentum through the turn, and he’s limiting the horse’s facing because the young horse already wants to face too much for how green he is.
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