Comments on: What a Half Halt Is (and Isn’t)

By: Natalee

Natalee — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:03:08 +0000

Thank you for this very helpful gesture!!! I tried this on my horses and It worked. I have a stubborn horse and he does not want to stop when you want him to. But now, when u tried this, he works on command.
Thanx!

By: Briana

Briana — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:27:10 +0000

Great article, very informative and helpful.

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 09:57:58 +0000

A half-halt is particularly good on the trail when your horse won’t keep his NOSE off the horse’s BUTT in front of him! I use the voice cue “OFF” when he (and I) aren’t paying attention — a great way to get cracked. Half-halts aren’t just English…

By: Marilou

Marilou — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:13:09 +0000

We take a breath and slowly exhale as a cue to asking our horses to slow and halt. At the same time we do a small pelvic tilt. Our beginners can learn this easily and this also gets them to sit more firmly in the saddle which gives the horse a good cue.

By: Buffy

Buffy — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:14:08 +0000

I think I need to practice, practice, and then more practice. I have a young filly so it is hard to try to teach everything at once,

By: Kristina

Kristina — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:07:44 +0000

Currently, I do little twitches of the reins to half-halt in order to keep the sitting trot. My goal is to move to what the article says and use my body as a communicator more than my hands. I started with the legs and am moving up.

By: Loren

Loren — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:53:57 +0000

A half-halt is a communication tool — a brief squeeze-and-release of the inside rein that is used to re-balance/re-collect the horse (usually) prior to a change of gait.

By: Summer

Summer — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:34:57 +0000

good article

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:31:51 +0000

good article

By: me

me — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:21:18 +0000

Thanks for the article i was wondering how to do a half-halt correctley