Horse training
We
take on horses for training all year round. From May to October we
are based in Geirastaðir and during the winter months we are based
in a well equipped stable, close to Egilsstaðir, that has a great
roads for hacking out, but also an oval track and an indoor arena.
In Geirastaðir we keep the training horses together with our own horses on the vast pastures. We bring them into a paddock daily for a few hours to take them out for training. The training horses learn fast by seeing the experienced ones, to be driven into the paddock, being taken out and trained by us. Down to a lot of movement and the social contacts within their herd, they are well balanced, with a good physical condition and fast reactions, which makes the training for them to become proper riding horses easy.
In Geirastaðir we keep the training horses together with our own horses on the vast pastures. We bring them into a paddock daily for a few hours to take them out for training. The training horses learn fast by seeing the experienced ones, to be driven into the paddock, being taken out and trained by us. Down to a lot of movement and the social contacts within their herd, they are well balanced, with a good physical condition and fast reactions, which makes the training for them to become proper riding horses easy.
A
lot of the training horses we get, come to us at the age of 4 or 5,
without having had much or any contact to people at all. Most of them
are learning very fast to be haltered, to be led, to be touched
everywhere and to go as near horse when hacking out. They get slowly
used to lunging, saddle, bridle, shooing, go as a near horse, and
eventually they get used to the rider with an understanding for the
riders signs. After 4-8 weeks most of them can be taken hacking out
on their own, not only by us but also by their owners. After the
first period of training the horses usually get a monthlong break in
the herd, before we begin again with further training. We keep an eye
on it, that the young horsese are kept appropriately and that they
can learn everything they need to be a good riding horse in a
friendly atmosphere without any stress or pressure to perform.
We
start training our own horses gently, most times in the summer they
turn 4 years of age, take them often out as near horses or let them
run free with the herd we take on the riding tours. In autumn,
respectively in the winter time we take them for about a month to our
training stable. The next training period start then again in the
summer with training for example tölt. In the meantime they can
enjoy the vast pastures of Geirastaðir, by simply being a horse
among others.
