{"id":18,"date":"2005-06-30T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=18"},"modified":"2005-06-30T20:10:38","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:10:38","slug":"tie-a-horses-head-to-its-tail-for-better-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/tie-a-horses-head-to-its-tail-for-better-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"Tie a horses head to it&#8217;s tail for better turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Martha<br \/>\nMy Wife has a friend that tells her to tie her horses head to it&#8217;s tail to make it turn tighter. Have you heard of this and what is your opinion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hi Bob<br \/>\nTo answer your question, yes, I&#8217;ve heard of the practice of tying a rein into a horse&#8217;s tail to teach the horse to give to the bit and flex. My opinion of it: DON&#8217;T LIKE IT &#8211; WOULD NOT DO IT! The things that effect the way a horse turns is education of the horse and rider and the hands on the end of the reins. I think that you are better able to teach a horse to turn or flex if you are &#8220;hands on&#8221; so that when that horse gives you the correct response you can reward or &#8220;release&#8221; immediately. Tying the head to the tail gives you NO chance at rewarding that horse for the correct response until after the fact and then it&#8217;s too late and the horse doesn&#8217;t learn anything except that bending (against his natural body position) is quite<br \/>\nuncomfortable!<\/p>\n<p>Martha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Wife has a friend that tells her to tie her horses head to it&#8217;s tail to make it turn tighter. Have you heard of this and what is your opinion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fittness","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}