Teaching Guide – Blue HorseSense – Motion Machines

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Use this teaching guide for unmounted lessons that help students understand how a horse moves in each gait while correctly identifying faulty movement patterns and signs of equine lameness.

Horses are made to move! Learning some basic biomechanics of horse movement can help students become better riders, trainers, and/or caretakers.

At this Level, we don’t expect a dissertation on horse anatomy in motion, but we do want students to develop an educated eye while watching a horse’s movement.

Blue Level HorseSense is often the point where students advance to leasing a horse, or investing in a horse of their own — which means their ability to recognize unsoundness while working independently could save a horse’s career!

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If this is your first time using our unmounted teaching guides, please make sure that you download and read:

HOW TO TEACH HORSESENSE USING OUR TEACHING GUIDES – IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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This PDF file is formatted for full color desktop printing on standard 8.5 x 11” copy paper.

4 pages

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