[drivingpairs] adjusting reins
- From: Hzlax@xxxxxxx
- To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:40:07 EDT
In a message dated 10/7/2003 12:28:41 AM Pacific Standard Time,
ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Subject: [drivingpairs] adjusting reins
>
> We've been driving with the new pair reins (thank you Hardy) for several
> weeks
> now. Before that we were using Hungarian-style reins. I've started with
> the
> reins in the "6" position for both. The carriage has a crab end pole and
> one of
> the pair (Mosa) is bigger and more willing than the gelding (Flygill). What
> I'm
> seeing is that, regardless of which side I have the horses on, Mosa is
> pulling
> away from the pole and carries her head away from the pole. Flygill, on the
>
> other hand is pressing against the pole and is carrying his head toward the
> pole. Now obviously this is shrieking some message, but I, novice that I
> am, am
> not able to translate it. How about an interpretation, oh you Wizards of
> the Whip?
> Stephanie
> Blasted Rock Farm
It's not only adjusting reins, that's not a cure all, you need to do a lot
more. Without seeing the horses, just as long distance e-mail suggestions: 1.
Adjusting the reins:
Mosa needs to be taken back one hole in the reins and Flygill needs to be let
out one hole in the reins. (So the coupling rein to Flygill on Mosa's back is
brought forward one hole and the coupling rein to Mosa on Flygill's back is
brought back one hole). 2. You need to get after Flygill with your whip to make
her WORK and GO FORWARD, without sending Mosa forward! Only that way will
you be able to get them straight. It's Flygill's fault of being too lazy and
YOUR's of not correcting that.
The reason Mosa is pulling away from the pole with her her head to the
outside and Flygills leaning onto the pole with his head to the inside, is that
Mosa
is pulling more, thus the carriage is being pulled forward on Mosa's side,
thus the pole has the tendency to wander over to Flygill's side, thus you
automatically without even realizing it are taking hold of the rein on Mosa's
side
more, so that you don't go off the road to Flygill's side, and that's why the
heads are being pulled over to Mosa's side and it looks like the horses are
going to that side, Mosa off the pole and Flygill onto the pole. That you state
it doesn't matter on which side you hitch them, it's always like this
regardless on which side you have them, shows exactly, that this is the
problem,
because it's the same problem regardless on which side you have the horses. So
the
horses aren't crooked, it's that Mosa is so much more eager and Flygill so
lazy. THAT's what you must correct!
Good luck
Hardy
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