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Ride at least twice a week, if possible. If you are just learning to ride for pleasure once a week is fine, you will make progress but if you have goals of competing in any of the disciplines and looking to really you can make progress it is better to have at least 2 or more lessons a week.
Many great school horses are older, seasoned veterans with a lot of experience.  Give your horse plenty of time before each lesson to warm up.  Especially if you are like me and like to ride early in the morning.  He maybe a little slower and stiff to start with but once warmed up will be a valuable friend in teaching you a lot.

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Along with a good instructor take a look at the school horses as these will be the horses that you will be riding and learning on and getting to know very well!

In most instances you will be riding a variety of horses as they come in a variety of shapes and sizes, have different personalities, a different feel and will all teach you different skills. You don’t want to get too used to any one horse and their particular gait and habits. The horse that you like riding least and seems the most frustrating and makes you work hard is the horse that will teach you the most. I had this experience in the first 2 horses I rode in the first few weeks.

Both are Quarter Horses and are of a simliar size and build but that is where the similarities ended. Even though they both enjoy their work one is always willing to move forward where the other one has to be continuously asked and makes you work hard.

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