Video Clinics from Galloping Video

Welcome to our new on-line video service! We are offering short, highly informational presentations, which can be viewed on your computer in a high resolution format. You will need a DSL service and ideally an internet speed of 400 kbps or better to avoid excessive buffering time. Select the video production you’d like to see, submit the order and a video link will be emailed to you within 24 hours which allows a 1 week access pass and three replays to the video you’ve ordered. More new topics will be available on a monthly basis, so come back and visit us often.

Ride Smart: The Green Horse, Lyn Anderson (36 minutes)

Highly successful Cow Horse trainer, Lyn Anderson shares her secrets of getting any horse really broke. Exercises and building blocks to help your horse be a better horse. Teach the horse to respect your hands, respect your legs, and stop and lighten contact on the bit.

Drills include: ways to give and bend, side pass and move off the leg, improving your hand-leg coordination, using flexions on the circle, starting small, slow spins, and rollbacks on the fence at the walk, making the horse soft, leg control at the lope, intro of lead changes, and schooling for suppleness in the turns.

In this video presentation Lyn also advises how to evaluate the horse’s response and and using incremental steps to get to your goal.

Ride Smart: The More Advanced Horse Lyn Anderson (35 minutes)

In this new video Lyn gives us a great clinic to on how she develops a young horse into an athletic competitor. Progressive exercises are now aimed at sharpening up the green horse basics. Lyn demonstrates how to ask for more precision and quicker responses without scaring the horse or creating defiance.

Drills include: flexions and suppling exercises, making sure the horse is polite in the face, the lope-off from the walk, fast to slow circles, teaching your horse to listen to your body, running straight lines, more advanced stops, controlling the shoulder, turn around corrections, lead change exercises and how to keep the horse focused on the rider.

Ride Smart: Working A Green Horse On A Cow (26 minutes)

In this new video presentation Lyn takes the building blocks of body control and respect for the bit developed in the previous videos and puts them to work on a bovine. Now the horse must focus on both the rider and the movements of a cow in the arena and learn to rate, turn and circle it at the rider’s discretion. Includes great demos of corrections and rewards for a green young horse. Lyn completes this segment with narrating a recent cow horse show run pointing out where the building blocks are used in a real-time situation.

Drills include: Warming up for cow work, fitness, preparation exercises, making good use of boxing, what to do when the horse gets pushy, teaching the horse to rate the cow and wait for the rider, how to go by the cow and ask for a slow-controlled fence turn, what to do about the horse leaning toward cattle, and how to develop confidence in the horse.