Horse Training

Starting or backing a young or a green horse is a process which ultimately has the power to shape your horses feelings on being ridden for many years to come.  Decisions made during those initial few weeks and months have the potential to impact your horse’s feelings towards carrying a rider for the rest of his life.

The process itself is not just about ‘riding’ the horse, but also introducing the horse to different training principles, which are the foundation for him to begin ‘schooling’ once the actual backing or getting a rider into the saddle is complete.  This understanding is fundamental to your horse being able to move forward in his training, building week on week and month on month in his development, confidence and knowledge.

There are a few ways you can approach this; unfortunately quickly is not one of them!  We, at BBos Riding School believe that taking things slow and steady when starting him off will allow him to grow in confidence.  A horse who has had a chance to ‘work things out’ initially, both physically and mentally, is generally one that can, if necessary, figure things out if and when you need him to do so later in his training.  Whether that be to navigate a particularly uneven piece of ground or a difficult jumping distance, or even just being confident on the trail.  The early methods you employ to teach your horse about being ridden will very often dictate his reactions when under pressure later.

During the first 15 to 20 hours of groundwork over two or three weeks (one-hour sessions), we focus entirely on simple but important body control exercises with the horse, and gradually work to more advance procedures and training.

We offer the following training:

School either young or green horses
Backing young or green horses
Re-training the older horse
Training horses that require a set of skills to perform a certain duty
Exercise and lunging of horses
Work with horses that are misunderstood

​Important Information

A minimum period of 3 months are required for basic schooling
Period may vary due to type of training and individual horse
Horses will stand at BBos Riding School during this period
Horses to be trained/ridden a minimum of 3 times per week
Horses will be lunged / do ring work for a minimum of 2 times per week