2007-09-14 05:16:25 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
kick it hard and hold on
2007-09-14 05:18:53 · answer #1 · answered by fosyfos 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Riding at a gallop means you'll be in two-point position (leaning forward slightly so that your seat is a couple of inches off the saddle...saves the horse's back) the entire time, so plenty of practice posting at the trot is really useful for that. You really do need to have some experience riding at the trot and canter before you attempt the horse's fastest speed because you have to be able to safely control the horse -- and your own balance.
Once you're ready to gallop, you'll want to get the horse in a canter, nudge him with your lower leg/heel or give him a tap with a crop to ask him to go into a gallop, and then go up into the two-point position when he speeds up.
2007-09-14 13:27:48 · answer #2 · answered by benden 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gallop
The suspension phase, seen in the canter and the gallop
In motion
Le derby d'Epsom, painting by Théodore Géricault, 1821The gallop is very much like the canter, except that it is faster, more ground-covering, and the three-beat canter changes to a four-beat gait. It is the fastest gait of the horse, averaging about 25 to 30 miles per hour, and in the wild is used when the animal needed to flee from predators or simply cover short distances quickly. Horses seldom will gallop more than a mile or two before they need to rest, though at a moderately-paced gallop can sustain it for longer distances before they become winded and have to slow down.[7]
The gallop is also the gait of the classic race horse. Modern Thoroughbred horse races are seldom longer than a mile and a half, though in some countries Arabian horses are sometimes raced as far as two and a half miles. The fastest galloping speed is achieved by the American quarter horse, which in a short sprint of a quarter mile or less has been clocked at speeds approaching 55 mph
2007-09-14 12:25:11 · answer #3 · answered by ~Kim~ 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You don't until you learn to sit well in the saddle... which means you know how to control the horse. A galloping horse is a fun ride, but horses spook very easily... and then he might bolt and will be difficult to rein in.
2007-09-14 12:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
when you ask a horse to gallop its nt easy if you dnt knw ow to ride because it tests ur balance. wen you do ask 4 it tho u shud go in to trot then sittin trot then ask 4 canter then sit and kick and if your horse isnt lazy shud extend to gallop bt if ur horse is lazy then you mite after kick it or smack it with a whip!!!
2007-09-17 13:15:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you need to know this then Id suggest for the poor horses sake you take riding lessons.
As for the idiot who recommend you kick it and hold on!
maybe you should work with those poor horses that have had just that done to them,You need kicking.
2007-09-14 12:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by redlady 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You don't, the horse does the galloping.
2007-09-14 12:19:40 · answer #7 · answered by matty 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Errrr.... I know I take things to literally when I start cracking up on reading this. After all, usually it's *the horse* that gallops....
2007-09-14 12:19:49 · answer #8 · answered by Katie W 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Just say to it in a calm voice " If you gallop for me I will give you double portions of oats" That should do the trick. Unless he's French of course.
2007-09-14 12:19:27 · answer #9 · answered by Birdman 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
heels down, lean forward with your head to the side of the horses neck, loosen your rein, and let your horse go.
enjoy the adrenalin, i adore it!
2007-09-14 12:24:08 · answer #10 · answered by sasha 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
get on him and will go galloping.
2007-09-14 12:23:31 · answer #11 · answered by deserthawk 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋