[drivingpairs] Hungarian Style reinsmanship


Hardy,

Please give me an explanation of Hungarian Style. I get the
impression it allows individual contact to each horse in the pair. I
really long to have each horse seperate when I drive them. I get
frustrated and even after all this time seem to have trouble
correcting one without "punishing" the other. I've often wished I had
a full set of lines to each horse in order to "speak" to them
seperately. Would Hungarian allow me to do this??


You are asking the wrong person, because I firmly believe that it is 
counterproductive and ultimately leads you nowhere in trying to work both 
horses individually in the pair. That's just it, you want to make them a 
"pair", that means you need to work them "together" and that does mean of 
course a constant compromise between the two in your reins going to both of 
them. It's up to your whip and voice to move them both into the bit similarly 
so that you can work there with them, and yes, they need to be of halfway 
similar temperament, working a sports car together with a truck in a pair 
doesn't work very well, and even the Hungarian reins won't make that better.  
But yes, the Hungarian reins do allow more individual handling of each horse 
and again, the Hungarians are GREAT horse people, and drivers, so I don't 
want to knock anything there, but as I am not an expert in the Hungarian 
system, I would not be the right one to ask. There is a book out there "The 
Hungarian Driving Style" (CAA and ADS sell it) which perhaps explains it 
properly (I have not read it though). But the school where I come from 
believes in Achenbach.
Hardy
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