How to ride a race horse

Did it go okay

@@rdred8693 it did!! I rode them for a week and basically decided to go back to previous position as being self employed suits me better! But what an experience!! Will never forget that! And I didn’t die and nor did anyone else 🤷‍♀️🤣

that where the carriage horses comes in-we need more teachers here on the east coast in Nj to teach those of us who cant ride anymore or senior citizens but can drive and still be around horses and not be left out

Ride long and learn to ride from your legs. Your legs are the voice to the horse. Wise lady once told me when horses get nervous or bad to squeeze them and “give them a hug with your legs”

@@marshallkinnamon1151 I'm going to try that...thank you very much, awesome ride! 😁

@@marshallkinnamon1151 doesnt know shit about horses ☠

You are not to heavy to be an Exercise Rider at 140. That's a fairly LIGHT EX RIDER. Now, if you are a girl, that's a bit heavy, but a male, if that 140 is muscle, good weight. Too heavy to race ride...

Hey! We ride in "bridged reins" when we canter racehorses, there are two types of bridge but either work fine based on personal style, but the basic form of it is you cross the reins into an "x" and grab the double loop as a result, and then you bring both of your hands down to rest against the horses neck/wither. This gives you more anchor for a hard pulling horse (which all Racehorses will be) and you can keep your hands low and dug down so the horse only pulls against itself instead of you pulling it and breaking it's jaw, because the more you fight the worse it is, you want them nice and relaxed easing into their work. When you do slow work, ideally you want a nice long rein, contact is optional depending on how the horse settles, the strongest of horses I try to keep little contact on as they only begin to brace against it otherwise and they can sometimes get incredibly strong as a result when I finally ask them to work fast times. When you do fast work, you grab the reins up and shorten them, not necessarily pulling, but the horse can feel that and it cues the horse to stride out and finish, sometimes a show of the whip too. When we finish work, I Instantly drop all contact and let them come back to me (granted there's no dead end like some trainers have) naturally, then I'll ask them to pull up, the reins now I leave very loose, as I want to let the horse know we're finished so he can relax, but also to reward him for his hard work, he can let his head down and flow especially if they're tired with a nice long rein, and just makes them so much calmer and content walking home, unlike English horses we try not to have constant contact on the bit when walking or trotting! Many beginner trackriders first instinct is to grab up a Racehorse when they feel it hook off with them so they can "pull" better when it's the total opposite, not only is the racehorse trained to speed up at this que, but you have less leverage to pull as you're over the horses head, a rein that's a little longer so that you can brace better against them if that situation arises goes a long way, and makes for a better rider and a happier horse. :)

@@citycreek4066 - Thanks for describing that process in more detail. Which gait does the rider in the video mean when he says "jog"? By the way, in your last run-on sentence, it's *"cue"* (a signal), not "queue" (a line-up) or "que" (not an English word).

​​@@citycreek4066Thank you for this answer. I hope you can explain more about holding the reins in a bridge and how we stop (bolting) racehorses. Ev1 gives the one rein stop as advice and turning them in circles. But I've trained racehorses as well and I learned the bridge and when necessary to stop to pull 1 rein over the withers... Ppl just don't see the dangerous things that can happen with the one rein stop and pulling them in circles... Like breaking their legs, falling etcetera... I'm finding a good video to show it to others, so far this is the best explanation but unfortunately not with the "how to stop" in it. Oh and how you push your knees hard to the body to stop or slowing down...

I dont know where it is, but it's a training center, not an actual race course. A very nice training center, from what I saw of the barns and track.

Looks more like England…

yes I am, will try to have another video out soon

@@marshallkinnamon1151 I race, and i hope that you don't mind me asking, but what is your opinion on these whip rules? And now the new rule that the whip can only be used backhand?

@@joe-zf7mp eh whip rules are ok… the tracks around me require these foam 360 whips which create more noise rather than more power. To be honest I’m not a fair judge to answer that. It would be best to ask a jockey whose ridden long before these rules so they have something to compare too. I believe some riders overused the whip, where as some use it correctly even if that means more than 6 strikes there’s still a time and place

​@@marshallkinnamon1151 how many do you ride a day?

The horses are anticipating, so all you need sometimes is just a cluck…

Those types of horses are few and far between. Mr Turcotte was being generous about his lack of input. He was a great rider. A bad rider can fuck up a horse even as good as Secretariat.

@@darlenelarochelle4011 Rode out a horse called "Buster Bash" that won a few Stakes races and the Perth Cup this year, he was just like this of a ride, beautiful light mouth and a gorgeous stride, knew his job inside and out, I was only there to relax him and give him pats coming down the hill! Miss that horse loads. Getting a great horse like that that's also a beautiful ride is the trackrider lottery

This is track work not a race

The horse is probably 16.2 hands. A hand is 4 inches.

Most likely a racing tack supply store.

An abuse centre

@@Roheryn100 I have this type of whip, and you are right, you can get them from racing tack stores, i got mine from America.

I used to be an exercise rider and you get them at tack stores but generally make them your own with tape you want to reinforce them etc

@Alfie Liking animal abuse is a little psychopatic, and arguing with a psychopath is pointless so

Hicham Oukayou Your jockey needs to keep the horse under control, and not let the horse get in front to early, and as for the horse being in the middle and not wanting to speed up, then the jockey goes straight to the whip and use it hard to get the horse to speed up, how long as the jockey been riding?

@@joe-lc5ci I appreciate your reply , he been riding for 20 years

@@hichamoukayou7632 So he should know how to handle the horse? Is he the only jockey that rides your horse?

@@joe-lc5ci yes the olny jockey

@@hichamoukayou7632 what kind of jockey is he? Do you tell him how to ride the horse or does he ride the horse the way he wants to? How many races as the horse won?

Lmao

Oh really ? 😂😂

@Roheryn100 yes,really

@@richardmerryman8855 Horses are trained to change leads all the time, by leg aids, shifting of body weight, etc.

An equestrian but lesbian potato I race, although he did use his whip, he should have used it more and harder, the horse wasn't focusing properly, if i was riding the horse, i would have gone straight to the whip, and used it hard on the horses butt.

​@Whatsthebestshopinwakey710 I race, and the horse deserved a couple of very hard cracks on its rump, with the whip to keep it focused.

kill a horse by running?

What's with all the excessive punctuation? It makes it hard to read or make sense of whatever point you're trying to get across. You don't follow a comma with a space then a period with comma & another period. And this: ~! Huh?

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