Robin Frid shows you how he likes to prepare his horse to ride over trail obstacles.

When you're going over trail obstacles, you need to be able to find your line of travel to help put your horse in the correct spots going over poles.

Correctness is key in an event like trail. Robin Frid talks about the importance of staying correct throughout your pattern and avoiding penalties in the process.

Robin Frid shows you how he likes to help his horses get over different trail obstacles. He also goes over the importance of body position and finding your spots between poles.

Are you moving your body too much when you're going over trail obstacles. Robin Frid explains why that might be distracting to your horse—and to the judges in the show pen.

A personal preference of Robin Frid's is teaching his horses what front foot they should put over a trail pole first. Learn how it can help your horse get over more difficult maneuvers with ease.

Teaching your green horse how to correctly lope over trail obstacles takes a lot of time and training. Robin Frid goes over how he works his green trail horse over a lopeover obstacle.

Being able to properly guide and steer your horse through obstacles is a large part of a trail class. Robin Frid shows you how he steers his horses over poles.

Once you can lope your horse over poles going to the right, you need to focus on the left lead. Robin Frid shows you how he teaches his green horses to go over lopeover obstacles on the left lead.

Slower maneuvers like the back through or trail gate are easy to forget about because they usually require a lot of slow movements. Robin Frid explains why you need to spend just as much time doing the slow obstacles that you do on the more exciting obstacles.

There's a lot of tiny details that goes into mastering the right-hand gate in a trail class. Robin Frid goes over how he works a right-handed gate.

A left-hand gate is going to be different from a right-handed gate, especially if you normally hold the reins with your left hand. Robin Frid walks you through the basics.

Robin Frid goes through a simple trail pattern and breaks down what he's doing before, during, and after each trail obstacle.

The back through obstacle is a part of every trail pattern, and requires strategic placement of your horse's body in order to avoid hitting any poles. Robin Frid shows you how he likes to practice this obstacle at home so his horses aren't rushing it in the show pen.

When you're schooling a trail obstacle, you need to be strategic with how you school your horse. Robin Frid shows you how he schools his horses so that they understand what he's asking them to do.

A major part of Western riding is pattern placement. If you're not in the correct position going through the cones you're not going to get your lead changes in the correct spots. Robin Frid talks about pattern placement in Western riding and the importance of learning where you are in the pattern.

Finding your line in a Western riding pattern is much more challenging than it looks. Robin Frid explains the importance of finding your line of travel in this class.

Robin Frid goes over the reasons why he likes loping through Western riding patterns to find his spots and show learn about his line of travel.

A big part of a Western riding event is being able to change leads in the middle of all the cones. Robin Frid goes over what he does to ensure that he's changing leads in the center every time.