Dropping the shoulder

Golden Horse said:

Inside leg to outside hand

More inside leg to outside hand..

Maybe back up the inside leg to outside hand a whip, used just behind your inside leg, as it’s pushing, bumping and nudging the horse out

Spoken by the person who feels like they have a groin strain from using my whole leg trying to keep my little monster on the rail today.

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Golden Horse said:

Inside leg to outside hand

More inside leg to outside hand..

Maybe back up the inside leg to outside hand a whip, used just behind your inside leg, as it’s pushing, bumping and nudging the horse out

Spoken by the person who feels like they have a groin strain from using my whole leg trying to keep my little monster on the rail today.

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tinyliny said:

if the horse is bending such that the inside shoulder drops toward the center, in effect the horse 'falls into ' the middle in an attempt to shortcut the distance it must travel , you have fundamentally two choices;

1. let it; Let it go to the inside, but turn it so that it is not falling into the center counter bent. instead, lift the inside rein, get it to lift up that inside shoulder, bend a bit through the neck and 'follow' the rein around in a small circle to the inside until it goes full around and is back on the rail. Keep doing that until it becomes tired of that 'game' and decides not to shortcutt.

2. use the inside rein and the inside leg to create a bend toward the outside of the arena and push the horse over. I'm not a fan of intensive 'pushing' of a resistant horse. so, I might smack the horse once behind the inside leg to say 'smarten up and listen'. THEN push it out, but if it's bending its nose toward the outside, using the outside rein will only pull the nose further that way. You need to use the inside rein and inside leg to correct the bend.

video?

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