[drivingpairs] Pair Rein Adjustments 101

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I wrote in my last post to "take the eager one back in the reins one or two 
holes", and at that time did not have enough time to explain that more for our 
beginners. All experienced pair drivers should know what that means, but for 
those who don't, here a few more explanations, as this is one of the basics of 
pair driving:
Let's assume our left horse is the lazy one and our right horse is the eager 
one. Now let's take the eager one back one hole in the reins. That means on 
our LEFT rein, we move the coupling rein buckle BACK one hole - which shortens 
the coupling rein which goes from the LEFT draft rein over to the right horse 
by one hole - and since the end of the reins aren't fixed in our hands, it also 
means that the draft rein to the left horse now got longer by one hole. So 
now we adjusted the LEFT rein for BOTH horses with this, left rein of right 
horse got shorter and left rein of left horse got longer. Since we don't want 
to 
drive crooked, we now must do a similar adjustment on the RIGHT rein, only 
there we must do it in the OPPOSITE direction, e.g. the right rein buckle must 
move FORWARD one hole. That has the effect of lengthening the coupling rein 
which 
crosses over to the left horse, and by the same token, of shortening the 
draft rein to the right horse. So with that we now adjusted the RIGHT rein of 
BOTH 
horses accordingly. NOW the left (lazy) horse has one hole longer reins on 
both sides of his mouth, and with that has more room to step out a little more 
(which we still need to encourage with our whip that he does, but now we gave 
him the room for it), and our eager right horse has his reins one hole shorter 
on both sides of his mouth, so we keep him back in our hand more.

Our beginners in pair drivers: Please take your time to read this again until 
you  clearly understanding it. This is one of the fundamentals in pair 
driving. It is better explained with drawings etc in many good books, like "The 
Priniciples of Driving by the German National Equestrian Federation" or "Max 
Pape 
The Art of Driving". 

It is VERY important to always adjust the coupling reins on BOTH reins, never 
only one, as otherwise you would get your horses crooked. We have three 
different kinds of adjustments, which I also explained briefly in pairs Driving 
101 
on the Pairs website.
Happy pairs driving
Hardy



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