What do you have to do to increase your horses speed?

Answer 1

It varies depending on the horse, the riding style and the situation. If you want to learn to ride a horse then you need to learn with an instructor but the theory is as follows. To walk: sit slightly deeper in the saddle, make gentle contact with the horse's mouth via the bit and press your lower leg against the horse's side. Through all this you must keep your torso and head proudly upright, your lower back soft and your body free of tension. To trot: gently and gradually shorten the reins slightly so you still have a contact when the horse raises his head and brings his neck in, keep your seat relaxed and deep in the saddle and again press your lower leg against his side. To canter: the horse 'leads' with one of his front legs and you must instruct him on which leg to use. If you are cantering in a circular area you need to ask him to lead with the 'inside' leg. Sit deep in the saddle, free of tension, make sure his trot is active but slow, squeeze gently with the inside hand, keep a light contact with the outside hand, press your inside lower leg to his side and hold you outside lower leg back slightly against his side. To gallop: take your weight off the horses back by standing up in your stirrups and press your lower leg to the horse's side. Variations: you may need to encourage the horse to speed up using your voice, you may need to use a whip or spurs, you may need to use you heel in a massaging motion, you may need to bring your lower leg forward and use it in front of the girth. This is a very basic overview as the art of riding is incredibly complex!

this is correct in principal but in practice it sometimes differs with the horse. To get a transition to a faster stage, instead of pressing your lower leg into the horses side, it is sometimes more necessary to kick. This does not hurt the horse.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Normally the cue is when you squeeze your legs around his belly, or kick softly with your heels, somtimes accompanied with a kiss, cluck, or other voice command such as "walk on" "trot" ect. However, some horses are trained based on the tension on the reins. There are several ways to get a horse to go faster, but the thing is, they are CUES, not a way to force a horse into going faster. They are meant to put pressure on the horse, and when he responds to the pressure the way you would like, you release the pressure and the horse learns "when she kicks me, I'm supposed to go faster, and then she'll stop kicking me."

Answer 4

In the most natural sense, it's fear and a strong instinct of self-preservation. Fear is the biggest driving force to which determines how fast a horse thinks he should run away from danger, and the instinctual feeling of self-preservation will make a horse run as fast as he can away from danger.

That, above, is the behaviour of a horse in a natural environment. In an artificial environment where a horse has little to fear and much to gain and enjoy, speed comes with selective breeding and some training, though a bit of will-power and wanting to have as much fun as possible along with a strong competitive spirit will drive a horse to run as fast as he can. Take the famous racehorse Seabiscuit for instance. He was once used as a sucker for training racehorses, and was taken from this job and allowed to run to his heart's desire. He became famous because of his size, his stature, (and funny way he ran) and the seeming impossibility that he could outrun all the other well-bred Thoroughbred racehorses that he proved possible. Seabiscuit ran because he loved to run, wanted to run, and wanted to out-do all those other well-to-do race horses. He didn't need much, if any, training to get him to run like the wind, just training to run straight and true on the racetrack.

Answer 5

Exercise and if your not fat,then it will run faster!!

Answer 6

it takes training lots of it. Make your horse rack until its on the edge of breaking into a pace ( which is when the racking starts to get rough)

Answer 7

You can get a horse to run fast by tapping them in the side with your heel, or by training them to do so.

Answer 8

Training or selective breeding.