Western horse riding lessons
How can we teach you Western riding
In her travels, Anthea has ridden Western style on many occasions. At Silver Spur Ranch in Idaho, she stayed with the Tomlinsons, helping round up a herd of young pintos to bring them down from summer grazing in the high pastures to the lower winter pastures. The thought occured to her that learning to ride Western would be useful for clients that wanted to savour the dude ranch experience!
Shortly after her trip, she was offered a set of Western tack from a friend and the idea became fact and went from there! Now Wildwoods has several horses trained Western and several sets of tack. The horses take to it very quickly and "switch" to Western mode as soon as the Western tack goes on. They really enjoy it and love the neck reining and will spin on a sixpence in canter! It helps the rider to become more relaxed and balanced in the saddle and to become much more versatile. Although we have some long shank bits, we usually start with a hackamore, or bitless bridle, until the rider gets used to "letting go" of the contact.
