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"To rein a Horse is not only to guide him but also to control his every movement"

reining is the supreme discipline of riding American. It is a very demanding dressage which requires technical and self-control. The horse and rider must perform a pattern, galloping as smoothly as possible with a careful horse, which must demonstrate no sign of resistance to the rider orders.

A reining class consists of spectacular maneuvers such as sliding stops, spins and roll backs, transitions and change leads.

In competition, the event is judged by one or several judges, between 1 and 4 depending on the importance of the competition. Each participant begins the trial with a balance of 70 points. The judges appreciate the exactness of the alignment, quality of execution of maneuvers, the speed control of the rider on his horse. Inadvertent movement of the horse will be penalized. Conversely, judges will give credit for the softness and smoothness of aids, the "submissive" attitude of the horse, speed maneuvers and speed control of the horse on circles. More risk-taking is important and perfectly executed, most judges will give points to the couple.

Each participant begins the class with a balance of 70 points.

Points are added or deducted as follows:

•-2:  No! / Not Art
•-1 ½: Very bad
•-1: Poor
•- ½: Unsatisfactory
•0: Correct
•+ ½ : Well
•+ 1: Very good
•+ 1 ½: Excellent
•+ 2: Outstanding!

Here is a test maneuvers imposed reining, I let you discover them on video:

Spin: This is a spin on its hind legs. It must be run in quiet and at high speed.

Spin

The sliding stop: It is the "flagship" of the discipline! After a gradual acceleration to a gallop in a straight line, the horse must stop and move her hips in its mass should drag her hind legs while his front must continue to trot to advance as far as possible.

Sliding Stop  

The rollback: this figure is still made following a sliging stop. It is a U-turn 180 ° on its hind legs. The horse who just needs to stop immediately perform a roll back to the straight up at a canter.

Rollback

The rider must evolve to a soft hand with the reins or floating, which does nothing to simplify the task.

So here you have more? Impressive, no?

To date, Reining is the only western riding discipline recognized by the Internatonal equestrian federation (FEI).