How Do NH Pros Prepare Horses for Flying Lead Changes?

Horsemanship Pro Q&A

Our Horsemanship Pro Q&A is our newest feature, and offers the opportunity to learn for different natural horsemanship professionals as they explain how they would solve common horsemanship issues. We’re looking forward to getting a few different takes on solutions to natural horsemanship techniques!

Did you see our last two Horsemanship Pro Q&As? Find out out what Glenn Stewart, Paul Dufresne and Frank Bell had to say about horses that pull back in our November 2010 feature, or read our January installment to discover how the pros solve common problems with Glenn Stewart, Nancy Faulconer, Hertha James and Frank Bell.

This month, we received articles from two natural horsemanship professionals, Glenn Stewart and Alicia McKendrick.

Question: How do you prepare a horse for flying lead changes?

Glenn Stewart’s Response: Where to start? Lead changes done well are something I greatly admire and seem to be the talk of many trainers and riders. The how, when, where, and why are questions of great conversations. It is somewhat like asking how to you build a spaceship to land on Mars. Not an easy answer if you were to answer it completely from start to finish. View the whole article.

Alicia McKendrick’s Response: Horses have grace, beauty, performance, power. All of it coming naturally to them. We must think about how perfect our horses present themselves in the pasture. Running, playing, and those fancy manoeuvres including the dances they perform with the lead changes. View the whole article.

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