Summary: The horse whip helps to keep a young horse moving forward. Learn how to teach a young horse to go forward and come back in this free horse training video.
Mara Keith-Hunter is a lifelong equestrian and head coach for the Hampshire College equestrian team. She rode in the Intercollegiate National Horse Show for both the University of...read more
"We are now going to continue with our lunging work tracking left and just see if we can start to work a little bit more on having him come forward and come back to me so the upward and downward transition. Obviously we are just going to be starting just to give him the idea of what we want here. So the whip definitely acts as a forward aid and then I'm going to try to use my voice to make him stop when I ask him to stop and woa, good boy and trot on, good boy, and woa, good woa, woa, good and trot, good and right now it is not important that they are doing exactly what we are asking as long as they are coming forward and coming back even if they are fresh and woa, woa, woa, good."
eHow Article: Teaching a Young Horse to Go Forward & Come Back