How to Train Your OTTB Part 2
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This week Evention, we're continuing our three part series on "How to Train your OTTB". Part two will focus on beginning re-training, three common challenges with each disciplines, and some ideas to improve them. Stay tuned next week for the third and final part of this series on how to train your OTTB. We promise it'll be a goody.. As always, if you have a question or request for us, please comment below or send us a message on Facebook.
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Carrot stretches work a treat on the ground, ask him to bring his neck to his shoulder and between his legs and lots of open rein turning in the saddle, also asking your horse to bring his head round your knee as well. Another good thing, albeit a little pricey is having a physio work on your horse. Great for back and neck stiffness. Kinda like we go for a massage for a stiff neck. There are other ways to sort out a stiff neck but a massage is always better. Most OTTBs will be stiff to one side.
And is this an actual ottb? Could you make a clinic with an ottb that is right off the track. I mean I would pay to see the problems pop up as you go and assessing them throughout the video
We are working through all 3 problems right now. It was good to get some positive, cheerful and sound advice!
Horses at the track always learn both leads. They use the right lead through the straightaways and the left through turns so that they don't tire out. (We train racehorses and "break" babies and retrain as well. My OTTB's usually pick up their leads better than my regular riding horses). They are also less spooky because they have been there done that seen it all. At least all the ones I've worked with!!
Do you have any tips on how I can teach mine to stop? I've tried half halts, seat aids, vocal commands. She was a puller when she was on the track so she has a hard mouth as well so rein aids are just a pain.
I ride an OTTB at lessons and he is a hunter now, but he loves to charge at the jumps and leap over them. So my teacher is having me make him stop sometimes after jumps to get him to slow down and think about them. So far it has been working great
OMG "you got your ankles up around your ears somewhere" I died!
The rushing the jumps section was SO helpful! I've always had that problem with my OTTB, and I can't wait to try it!
I have an Ottb that has been off for 7 years and he still has some stable vices that are normally associated with the track- lol! I'm starting these with him even though he's been off for so long and it been working so well! Thx
"keep him relaxed so his brain keeps functioning" haha perfectly describes riding TBs!
I've retrained quite a few ottb's now and I'm completely addicted. Some fantastic tips here. I would also recommend an equine sports massage to help loosen up their back and generally get everything nice and loose. I would also recommend doing lots of desensitising groundwork. It really helps to build up trust. Can't wait for part 3 :D
This video was very helpful!!!! I have had some of these problems in my horse, who isn't even a thoroughbred and has never been on a racetrack!!! Thank you
You guys are only right up the street from me! You guys should host clinics or even do
a contest to come ride/hang with you guys from a day.
For leg yeilding, i started my OTTB by facing the fence, using my hands to keep his shoulder and head straight, i used my leg to move him over. The fence keeps him straight and soon he'll learn that the leg pressure means "over" rather than always forward. Flexing your horses neck on each side, getting the horse to stretch and collect the neck will help as well as making sure you have the horse on the outside rein, working off the inside leg. Doing alot of transitions helps relax my horse :)
Thank - you !!!!! Your awesome !!!!!! We have a OTTB and you've made my life easier ! God Bless your work !
Best TH-cam channel!
Thanks guys!! that was really helpful!! After you finish this last part of the series. Could you possibly do an episode on "looking/finding a new horse". Thank-you
Guys this series is awesome! Could you guys do a video on teaching a horse to move away from leg pressure.
This series is great. (: I would love to see a video on equine nutrition! (:
So great to have some extra tips to deal with an ottb. Especially if yours is as nutty as mine
I went schooling with you once in Wisconsin I think, my name is Lucy and my horse is Harvey we have come a long way and Abby was going to sell Inky but she didn’t I didn’t know you had a TH-cam channel 😂 it’s great 👍🏻
thanks from germany;-) i like watching your videos.
AWESOME! Thanks. :)
jigging is kinda like a trot in place, and they normally do it when they are stressed, excited or just have a bunch of energy. they are normally pretty tense when they do it. and you have to be careful it doesn't lead to bucking,taking off, or rearing. ive seen jiggy thoroughbreds do all the above when they are at shows. it's kinda hard to explain but it's not a good habit. ive found one rein stops and small serpentines help the horse bend and relax a lil. along with groundwork.
THB in general tend have bad feet, but often OTTB's have terrible feet so get a good farrier and like Jimmy said use hoof oil all over!!
My ottb has great hoofs
+Zoawesomeshowjumper That's great for you and your horse. However, TB's are known for very often having "flat feet", meaning very low/dropped heels and long toes which flare out. Some families/lines more than others. There is only so much a farrier can do with such hooves, it's the genetic material. Responsible breeders try to improve this common problem, at least in Europe.
Yup. Cheap horses to buy, expensive to keep. It's no fault of the horses, but of the breeders. The breed has developed for one thing ONLY- speed. That's it. Not health, not sanity, not sense, not good feet. They're fast. And everything else is generally cruddy.
+Annie Peterson The "Speed only" thing is new and most prominent in USA. TB's used to be bred for stamina, robust health and strong bones, too, in the old days. The main problem is that a long, healthy life of the horses is not of interest for breeders of racers today. The horses run young and retire when other breeds start their careers, while in the old days they ran for 6-10 years. The only horses they want to live long now are their studs and breeding mares which spend their lifes unridden on pastures. We truely live in a throw-away-society. :P
We're you guys at the Devon horse show this weekend? I was there and I'm almost sure I saw you during schooling!
please do more videos on prep for a show
Love your videos(=
Love your videos! How do you get your horse so shiney?!
just saying a horse has to switch to the right lead in the stretch of a horse race. it helps them go faster because they take the pressure off the one leg. very useful episode though!
Could you do a how to train your off the track saddlebred? (:
Do you have a video on ground manners, and improving a horse's ground manners?
My ott is very forward under saddle and always wanting to break into a fast canter and trot, what could be some tips to slow him up a bit.
Move up and down with a quick jerky motion
Any tips to get my horse to relax his neck and hold his frame on his own? He will go in frame when asked but only for a second and he pops back up
How do you keep your OTTB slow? I find my OTTB is constantly a speed racer, and it's very difficult to keep him slow and relaxed. Also, he doesn't ever want to bend or turn. How do I fix this issue? He also isn't super supple and dislikes being slowed to a stop. He pulls against the bit and really fights me when I try to get him to halt. What do I do?
Does anyone know what size arena that is? That looks like a perfect size.
my ottb doesn't understand rein pressure because she was a puller on the track so she has a really hard mouth. any tips on how I can train her to stop when I ask her?
The OTTB i ride always speeds up and never slows down.
Haha so many of these problems sound like what i had when i got my welsh pony lol :)
Does a race horse canter or do they want to run
My horse raced for many years and picks up the right lead on the right but can't do it on his left rein yet, strange!
What are some exercises I can do with my girl (Green OTTB) to get her to yield to my legs?? Help! She's still Very green, with only walk/trot on her so far, and I'd like to start doing more canter work, but I don't want to until I can bend her body and get her to relax and use herself, so I can pick up correct leads. Thanks!!
Jigging is when your horse starts to trot but just barely kind of like a sitting trot but slower my OTTB does it all the time it is a very nasty habit
Could someone tell me what 'jigging' is exactly?
I don't really understand that word.
Not only Ottb's do it though! The quarter horse mare I ride does it when you pick up the reins. Shes really bad about it lol.
Where is event ion located?
can anyone help me? i have a ottb who is 7, after she got off the track she just kind of sat for a couple years. she had some people work with her but they didn't always have the time. she is very hostile towards a lot of the horses but is really connected to others. In the trot passing on a far distance she will try to pull to that horse and kick, so in the canter its even harder. she is really stiff in her neck and i have been working on collection and flexing. the worst problem with her is in the canter she will buck and do short rears, she will go really fast and is hard to stop. i can't use the bit because she will buck and rear worse if i pull back to much. its hard and i don't really know much of what to do. i have been trying to turn her with leg in circles and try to bend her as i canter but she still gets really sensitive and bucks. if anyone has suggestions i would be really thankful, i would also like to know how to keep her from being so sour when her friends go off riding ahead of her and she bucks and rears. thanks :)
off the track thoroughbred
What is a OTTB?
What is jigging??
Children, one of the big parts to this video: LEG AIDS FIRST and then focus on the head/neck. Possibly my biggest pet peeve is when riders freak out and only focus on the head/neck and don't care what the horse's body is doing
In fact, a lot of this video applies to all green horses! :]
also for jigging just let the reins loose and just go with it like its completely normal.
whats jigging?
*head not neck
Jigging?
THB in general tend have bad feet, but often OTTB's have terrible feet so get a good farrier and like Jimmy said use hoof oil all over!!