![]() You are continuously trying to get your horse to pay attention only to you but he continues to care about something else. The first five, ten or even thirty minutes you can feel like you are doing something completely useless. However, if he does, I immediately correct him again by turning his head inside of the circle. In the begging, usually as soon as I release my rein, my horse gets right back to observing whatever he was observing before. I use just enough pressure to get my horse to react and turn his head. You will have to turn his head inside of the circle by pulling your rein. The important things is for your horse to look inside of the circle and for him to stop looking at whatever he was looking before that was more interesting than me on his back. I usually ask for a small circle in trot or in walk. So how do I get my horse to stop caring about other things and how do I get all his focus on me?Īs soon as my horse stops paying attention to me and begins observing something outside of the ring, I have to immediately ask him to do something simple to remind him that he needs to be paying attention to me. ![]() However, what you need is a ton of patience and dedication to get your horse to pay attention to you no matter how long it will take. Not in a sense that you would need some special skills. That can be more challenging than it might seem sometimes. However, if you have a horse that tolerates it when you are sitting on his back, but instead of paying attention to you, he just cares about his surroundings, the first step you need to take is to get his attention. I am sure there are a lot of horses that pay attention to their riders, without their riders having to get their attention, or they just get their attention very easily. Usually, he is just going to keep looking at other people, other horses or things outside of the ring. You can tell that your horse is not paying attention to you when he keeps staring at something in your surroundings and doesn’t look at where he is going. ![]() The first step is to know how much attention you are actually getting… How to tell if your horse really pays attention to you? Get more attention from him and he will become less likely to get scared and he will no longer be distracted when other horses are around (or when he is alone and misses his buddies). Do you feel like your horse gets scared easily? Is he distracted by other horses around or just doesn’t pay enough attention to you?
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