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Topic: Slower cantering and better leg yeild!! HELP
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HorseRidinCutie4224
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Member # 1930
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posted May 17, 2004 01:16 PM
How can I slow my horses canter down? Its fast in just one direction and he usually gives a little buck before cantering, and then its fast. I have to go in circles to keep it under control, but you cant do that at a show.
I have a show this weekend. I am not really planing on showing, just taking him to see what he is like at a show. I will just ride him around the grounds and in the practice areana, and if he is good then I will enter him in a class. The thing is when he is inside, he can do walk/trot okay. Canter in one direction is fine, but the other is still fast. I rode him outside on Sunday after riding inside. He wouldnt stay on the wall, and wouldnt listen to my leg to move over, and he only sped up. What can I do? I just want to be able to go to the show an have a little fun, but once I take him outside, he doesnt spook or anything much, but he wont listen to my leg. What can I do?
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Posts: 57 | From: Swartz Creek, MI | Registered: Mar 2004
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ridegrrl
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Member # 1769
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posted May 17, 2004 01:44 PM
It sounds like your horse is a lot more supple one way than the other, and is being resistant when you ask him to bend his in his "weaker" direction.
Try lots of bending, particularly to the side that he has problems (i.e. if his left lead is stiff, fast, won't stay on the rail etc., do a LOT of circles to the left). I'd work at the trot, doing small circles on the rail, large circles off the rail, and work on your transitions up to canter and back down to trot while on the circle.
He'll learn that he has to bend to circle comfortably, that it's too much work to do it really fast, and that he may as well just relax and go to work because you will be consistent and firm in asking for canter, go a few strides, back to trot, 6 or 7 strides, up to canter, and so on. He'll learn to carry himself in a more balanced manner and then will be able to maintain a steady smooth canter on the rail to the left and right equally. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
Posts: 142 | From: B.C. Canada | Registered: Feb 2004
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eb
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Member # 2453
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posted May 18, 2004 12:38 AM
Hi I have an ex-racer who had decided that whenever any one asks for a canter it means a gallop ,we have figured this out and now when he is asked for canter he gives me canter. only problem is its at the speed of a gallop!in other words he gos so very extremely fast.Although he isnt really being naughty as he listens to me (mostly)its just that he gos so fast and tends to tear around in the most "controllably naughty" way.I was just wondering if when people are replying here they could maybe include some advice on slowing him down.
thanks ![[Horse On 2]](graemlins/horseon2.gif)
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