Huntseat Train

How to train your Arabian horse for showing. Arabians are hard work to show. You have to train them, keep them in shape, and bring them to shows and prepare them for shows and keep on schedule. There are several different styles of showing. The three main ones are Western, saddleseat, and Huntseat. To train your western Arabian horse for showing, you have to make sure you start out training your horse to have a soft mouth and hold their head by themselves. “Never wrap the rope around your hand.” “If the horse bolts, you will not be able to release yourself, and you may get seriously hurt.”(Vogel) When showing western you have a very loose rein, and not much contact with the mouth at all. You would want to make sure that your horse can hold their head by themselves.
To train your horse to do huntseat you should start by teaching your horse to hold its head up by itself without the rider having to hold the horse's head for them. You want your huntseat horse to be able to hold their head by themselves. You won’t have as much loose rein as you would in western, but the more rein you have the judge will like more. You want your Huntseat horse to be very up hill. Some of that comes through blood lines, but a lot of it comes with training your horse when they are young and having your horse in shape so they can ride up hill. You really want your hunter horse to be steady. That is the first thing that the judges would look at your horse. One thing that you will want for your hunter is a soft mouth. You don’t want to be using a harsh bit in the ring. You would want to use just plain snaffle, if your horse was trained with that type of bit. Huntseat is supposed to look more smooth and natural looking. The judges are looking for you to look very smooth and you and your horse move together. That is very hard for a lot of riders to do, you cannot really train your horse to be smooth. It has a lot to do with bloodlines, and