Learn How to Ride English Hunt Seat for Hunter Pleasure in Horse Shows

Watch this video to learn how to ride hunt seat on an English saddle. This is the style for Hunter Pleasure classes in horse shows. Watch as I take a lesson on a beautiful chestnut Arabian horse to see what goes on behind the scenes for learning how to ride a show horse.
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[@jamundsen1380]

Such a great Arabian gelding, and a great ride.

[@MagnificentHorses]

Thank you… It was a lot of fun to ride such a great horse!

[@erinbodine6933]

Wow this is so cool

[@MagnificentHorses]

Thank you and I'm glad you liked it!

[@sarahmarks7082]

Hey Dave and Elizabeth - what a great lesson 😁👍 And what a beautiful Arabian gelding ❣🐴! He was listening, thinking, and kept his head down - the last was a huge problem with the grey Arabian gelding that my sisters and I rode. He refused to put his head down 🥴

[@MagnificentHorses]

Thank you very much, Sarah! Titan is a great horse and it was a really fun lesson!

[@MR-ly4xt]

You ride beautifully and what a gorgeous horse. He behaved so well for you. How did you find the experience?

[@MagnificentHorses]

Aw, thank you! Titan was definitely a great horse for my first lesson for that discipline. It was a great experience and I want to do it again!

[@ramonafahrni5701]

👍👍👍

[@MagnificentHorses]

Thank you!

[@BK-is5fj]

Horse is behind the vertical and hyperflexion occurs in the thumbnail and throughout most of canter.

[@MagnificentHorses]

Thanks and you may be right, especially since that was my first time trying this discipline.

[@vivientakacs5599]

​@@MagnificentHorsesit's unfortunately a learned behavior that the horse used to avoid pain from the bit, doesn't matter which discipline you ride in.

[@MagnificentHorses]

@@vivientakacs5599 OK thanks for the info.

[@elizabethmorton2091]

Dave is learning to push the horse up to the bridle and engage the hind end, part of the lesson of what riders need to learn on a show horse.

[@vivientakacs5599]

@@elizabethmorton2091 Which doesn't include hyperflexion, but that's what happens. This is because while horses are told to be taught to work from the hind end, they are actually being worked from the front, thus the horse falls behind the vertical at best, gets pulled behind at worst. This isn't an intermediate rider problem btw, constantly more and more dressage riders in the Olympic levels are getting points as high as 7 and 8 and winning with horses that are behind the vertical most if not the entire time they're being tested