Beginning Horse Riding : Collection Horse Training a Lope

Training a horse to lope with collection horse training will allow the horse rider and horse to move together. Learn how to train a horse to lope using collection training with tips from a horse trainer in this free horse riding video.

Expert: Kathy Kentala
Bio: Kathy Kentala owns the Bee Cave Riding Center in Austin, TX. She also owns Signal Hill Ranch, a western venue specializing in team penning and ranch sorting, barrels, poles, and other speed events.
Filmmaker: MAKE | MEDIA

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• horses
• horse riding
• horse training
• pets
• pet care
• horse safety
• horse jogging

[bettylion]

This is not a bad video, she explains clearly the pressure/release/reward training aspect.

BUT, it really really bugs me when people use the word "collection" to mean "slow".

Maybe the western community uses it more interchangebly. In the dressage world, going slow and thinking it's "collection" is a BIG no-no!

[flynbytoofast]

I never said the horse was collected... But i did say the rider is green. You dont start out riding knowing how to collect a horse, I thought that was pretty obvious. Im sure when I first started riding i did the same thing! Untill I learned better of it. Im sure, with an expierenced rider this horse would collect and move into a frame.

[ArablvrXoXo]

Collection does not come from a head position. What a bunch of idiots.

[garfieldzgirl]

bloody hell collection means bow his head not lope. cant i find a decent video to learn how to make my horse collect properly?!

[altaimountain]

the whole 'training' of a horse how to run is incredibly ridiculous and cruel enslavement of a beautiful animal. Horses should live in nature, run free, live in herds and have full freedom to develop their natural potential and natural social structures.

[MrDanSanford]

This is clear and concise...well done!

[perfectlyEquestrian]

@bettylion yea! a horse can be collected and moving foward--in fact its better that way for english :)

[MzZoey]

I thought this was an excellent video to show how to "start" to collect a horse. I am a novice amatuer working with a 9 year old AQHA gelding that has been allowed to "hollow" out his back and carry his head down in front of him. No collection whatsoever,, he did not round his back lift his stomach muscles and drape his face like he needs to , with teaching him to give to the bit he must round his back and condition his stomach muscles to lift and get his hind end under him when loping.

[thehorsehelpchannel]

that was not a collected canter or lope

[xxBlackVeilBridexx]

@gilliangirl1 we're not telling them how to lope correctly.

We're teaching them a skill that takes work. That's the point of the sport, to work toward something.

[gilliangirl1]

I don't understand the concept of collection. Doesn't the horse know how to lope to its best ability without us telling him how to do it? It just seems bizarre to me that we would think we know better how the horse should move. Horses have been loping on their own for centuries..... why do they need us telling them how to do it?

[iluvmyfurkids]

I think was a pretty good video.