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Post by benrajah on Mar 21, 2010 8:42:45 GMT
Hi
Wonder if you guys can give us a little advice/help. We are currently backing our rising four year old pure bred arab ourselves having always sent our youngsters away to professionals to do the initial work and then carried on at home. This baby is particularly easy and a very honest little horse so have decided to do the work at home, - one to save some money but also it would be lovely for my daughter to get some credit for the hard work she is putting in.
She is going really nicely on the flat so far, is learning quickly - we backed her lightly last summer then turned her away and brought her into proper work this January.
She is popping into canter really well and seems very comfortable on her right rein but her left is a little more difficult. I don't really want her to start learning to run into canter but am wondering if any one has any ideas how to encourage her to go on the correct leg on the left rein. I have been advised to bend her head to the outside and this should make her strike off correctly but we don't want to get this wrong as she has the potential to go to the top.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Traceyx
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Post by sarahp on Mar 21, 2010 11:04:47 GMT
A very posh dressage rider once told me to ask from rising trot on the wrong diagonal - seemed to work!
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Post by brookhouse on Apr 4, 2010 20:51:51 GMT
hold the inside hand up stongly and put the whip in the out side hand tap on the bottom to get the bend and site ask for canter with the inside hand right up to stop falling in
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Post by bonnieheather on Apr 5, 2010 21:56:23 GMT
Tip your weight into the outside slightly, hold with the outside rein, try and sit up straight and as even as poss with weight being in the outside, stay in a nice balanced trot. Don't rush it. She's still only young, probably not totally balanced yet, working in walk and trot will help strengthen and balance her.
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Post by apple123 on Apr 5, 2010 22:14:59 GMT
I had to teach 40 year old 'experienced rider' how to get her young highland to go on correct canter lead and told her to ask from wrong diagnol. It also worked with my own young horse when I got him last year, only needed to do it for a couple of weeks and he'd cracked it.
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Post by mcw on Apr 6, 2010 17:27:15 GMT
Just keep trying
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