Interview with a horse trainer Stephan Thomas
Stephan Thomas
Stephan Thomas on Bonita
Why to include the reverse on the trainnings?
The gentle training for young horses is essential for its further development as a riding horse. Stephan Thomas is a professional horse training rider and gives tips in this interview to train young horses. He operates in Lüdenscheid in a horse stable and riding center.
By what age should young horses be trained?
Optimally, it is only three years, because it is necessary mental and physical maturity. Above all, a well-developed back muscles is crucial to ensure that during the lessons the horse can run free of pain and the rider can ride. It is important to know that many horses, as a three-year-old come from the pasture into the barn, due to the change only once in a performance is low. The immune system is weakened. These horses should first be fit again before the training begins.
How do you prepare the perfect horse training?
This is also with us from the classic method: first the young horse runs freely only in the hall, then we successively extend the exercises. For the lunging - It is recommended to use the hall in the middle to calm horses already on the same day. Surely the most exciting moment - a helper holds the horse while the rider slightly with the abdomen on the horse's back and then lays down one after the other's feet in the stirrups. The horse stays calm in the helper step. The next day we repeat this many times trot and gallop.
What is particularly important?
Four things are important: peace and patience, training up to 20 minutes, a positive assertion by the praise and every workout with a successful exercise to conclude the good-mood factor for the horse. If horses early in their careers have bad experiences affects their entire future will be a negative behavior.
Can horses in addition to training get support?
Yes, the horse must also be understood horse. And the diet is important. The immune system needs vitamins and trace elements. In some cases we have to support the back muscles with supplement feed. We make a good experience of many years with Viequo Powerbol Plus (www.vetvital.de), which is a pure herbal preparation for muscles. The oxygen and energy supply to the muscle cells is effectively supported.
Is too much energy in the diet especially for young horses not counter-productive?
No, quite the contrary. The horses are balanced and the performance is increasing, because the horse is better on the back and release running. Horses with aching muscles is an unpleasant experience. If the animals are motivated to cooperate, it is good for the horse and rider as well. The three-year-olds will be given the feed supplement in the first eight weeks of training, two to three weeks before we start trainning.
What should the horses be able to do after training?
Horses should go in all three basic gaits under rider after eight weeks. It has also proved to be able to make already flying gallop and reverse. The flying gallop can change by every horse, the sooner it starsts to learn, the better.
Mr. Thomas, thank you for the interview!
The interview was conducted by Dr. Heike Engels
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