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    The Importance of Fencing

    May 12, 2022 3 minutes
    BY BUD LYON, WITH NICHOLE CHIRICO
    PHOTOS BY NICHOLE CHIRICO

    Fencing is a drill that’s commonly utilized by reiners and cow horse riders to work on a horse’s ability to run in a straight line from Point A to Point B while staying relaxed. The fence is used as a barrier so a horse can learn to run relaxed and free all the way to the end to the arena and cease forward motion once he gets there.

    What fencing is crashing a horse into a fence to work on

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