Doug Allen instructs a reining young rider

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Great Britian team member, Doug Allen, instructs young rider Josh Collins prior to the European Champs '09. Doug, who won team bronze at the Champs', asks Josh to demonstrate some of the moves required by young riders, who were competing at the first ever young rider Europeans. He shows us the 'Ferrari' outline favoured in reining, and it's amazing to see the combination of utter relaxation and obedience in the quarter horse, using imperceivable aids. Young rider, Jessica Sternberg (5th at the Champs') talks to Fiona Price about reining 'patterns' including large fast and small slow circles, slide stops and spins, and why she loves the sport!

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leslie 9 Jan 2010 alirules-- most QH's are smaller and it is often that men will ride a "horse" well under the 15h mark. Simply put it would be impossible to mount and dismount all day long many miles from home while out moving livestock. Many early ranches were tens-of-thousands to millions of acres with little to nothing in the way of a step.

Alirules 4 Jan 2010 Lovely horse.... moves so smoothly, but looks a little "small" for the size of the rider. He has quite long legs and at fast work, the rider looked a little ungainly. However, excellent training tips and video. Thank you. :)

Fiona Price 4 Jan 2010 If you watch the other videos, you'll see that competition riders don't talk at all to their horses and Doug and Francesca tell us why. See the bottom two videos in the selection opposite. Also, they would probably say the horses' ears showed they were listening to the rider?!

hhhorse 4 Jan 2010 Impressive although the mare looks a little unhappy with her ears back. (Perhaps its just me!) I would have also liked to hear or see a bit of praise for the mare. Am sure it was because Josh was concentrating on what he was doing. We are so used to seeing most of the contributors on Horse Hero happy and laughing and enjoying their riding so much!

Fiona Price 3 Jan 2010 Relaxation, obedience, suppleness and power behind seem to be vital ingredients in reining. I think you have to look at reining horses with a different eye. Take a look at the masterclass with Francesca and Doug; what the horses do is amazing and they are impressive to look at at rest, but a very different type of impressive to what most people are used to seeing in the core equestrian disciplines.