On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:15:57PM -0400, Karen Thomas wrote: > Eitill has a very big trot for such a strongly gaited horse, and I have no > problem at all posting in the Sensation Hybrid. After all, a lot of western > riders post the trot in their western saddles these days - most of the NH > post at times. The act of posting shouldn't be so big - your butt should > just barely leave the saddle, and be more up than forward.
at his current stage of training, if i don't stay forward and i don't post big, stjarni breaks into tolt. i get the impression his previous owners didn't care for trotting at all, though his is big and beautiful and he offers it freely in the field. after four months of working on it, we can now do figure 8's in the ring and he picks up trot directly from walk when i ask about 90% of the time, but it's still in process. i do hope to someday be able to post less (and even to *sit* his trot!) but currently he only lets me get away with that if he is very distracted, like doing a cones course. --vicka
