Poles for Intermediates- From Drills to Runnning

This course is designed to build onto the Beginner Pole Bending course and get you up to the point to be making some time onlies (paid practice runs) on poles or trying the class at low level 4H gymkhanas and playday events. You might still have trotting around the end pole if your horse is not super handy or performance bred, and you only want to add more speed every time your horse is successful at slower speed. I never like to enter up a practice run until my horse is able to lope down the line confidently getting the correct lead and at least lope through 3/4 of the pattern. This is because you cannot fix things in your paid practice run, so you don't want to teach your horse that an actual run is different from practice. Thus we will get you through several steps at home, before I even suggest entering but the final goal of this course is to enter and make a practice "run" or time only at an event so that you can asses if you are ready to haul more or continue to work at home.