Learn the art of tailing your horse and teach your trail horse to be versatile on steep terrain.

Find out about the advanced skill of tailing your horse in AQHA’s Tailing Your Trail Horse FREE report with AQHA Professional Horsewomen Jenny Lance and Angelia Robinette-Dublin.

Tailing is the art of safely holding onto your horse’s tail from behind when encountering extremely steep terrain while trail riding.

Trusty trail horses can help you make it up extra steep hills that you may not want to ride up. But this is something that takes some ground work to learn first.

Get detailed steps on how to set yourself up for success when training to tail your horse on the flat and on an incline. If you complete each step your horse will become confident and calm enough to eventually be tailed at an incline on a hill during a trail ride.

Jenny and Angelia explain in the Tailing Your Trail Horse FREE report how to introduce your horse to potentially scary objects near his hindquarters. This report will help your horse get used to objects on and around his tail, decreasing your likelihood of being kicked.

“Spend time with approach and retreat of potentially scary objects all around and under your horse’s tail while he is standing still,” the report advices.

Find out how to lead from any position on your horse in the Tailing Your Trail Horse report. Learn the different zones to lead your horse from: normal position, riding zone and end zone.

“Establish a clear ‘go forward’ cue, such as clucking, tapping on the hip or, better yet, a cue based on your horse reading your intention,” Jenny and Angelia say.

And learn the signs of relaxation that will allow you to tail your horse up a steep hill. These AQHA Professional Horsewomen explain horse body language in order to have a relaxed horse before moving onto tailing.

“Always be aware of your horse’s mindset,” Jenny and Angelia say. “Is he uptight and nervous? Or is he relaxed and in a learning frame of mind?”

AQHA’s Tailing Your Trail Horse FREE report will help you learn what to do on adventurous trail rides in case you run into a position where tailing is necessary.