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| Any tricks or suggestions on how to help one learn and pick them up. Ive got one that does not want to use his right |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Firemanswife - 2014-05-28 8:07 AM Any tricks or suggestions on how to help one learn and pick them up. Ive got one that does not want to use his right
My favorite trick is to lope a circle on a hill. At the bottom, just as you are about to start uphill, ask for the lope. |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: lone star state | Don't let them continue on the wrong lead as soon as the horse takes the wrong lead break back to a trot and ask again for the correct lead. Make the right thing easy and the wrong lead more difficult (trotting being more difficult than loping). |
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 Warrior Mom
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| Ive got two that are die hard leftys... one was trained soley for roping so he never was "allowed" to use the right lead... ive had some luck with both on first making sure they can move automatically off my leg pressure and tip their noses easily. Once I had them moving off pressure good id ask for the right lead... the one I found a smaller circle helped then once he picked up right lead our circle would expand out... its a work in progress. I hate to break them down from the lope immediately if they pick up incorrect lead. .. feel like im discouraging the forward motion when they just dont understand what that other lead is all about |
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 The Bling Princess
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Location: North Dakota | My husband's rope horse used to have issues picking up his right lead so I would have him move him laterally off his leg til he felt him balance out and then push him forward. He'd get it almost every time. |
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Location: Midland, MI | plan to lope a circle, tip the nose in and apply inside leg pressure to round the ribcage. You're setting the horse up for automatic success. |
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| I use 2 methods depending how broke my horse is to ride. If they are really broke and responsive I will apply outside leg pressure to balance and move the hip in. With my reins I barely tip the nose and lift the shoulder and they can pick it up. I use this method with my more "nervous" gelding when he won't pick it up going to the first barrel. He is really broke though. For colts they usually don't quite understand all those commands. In a circle I will use my outside leg and tip their nose to the outside. This will throw them onto that inside lead. Eventually you can forego the tipping the nose to the outside and just apply leg pressure to get them to pick it up. A broke horse should move away from your leg so whichever side you apply leg pressure they should take the opposite lead. You should also be able to feel pretty easy when they are trotting if they are ready to take the lead. It's pretty easy to tell if they are balanced or not. If they aren't then you should be able to re-position their body and then ask for the lead. If positioned right there is no reason they shouldn't take it. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| First, healthy sound and chiropractically balanced. I struggled for a while with my gelding on his right lead. Turns out he had some pretty severe Chiro issues that made it difficult to pick up that lead. I beat myself up for a while over waiting as long as I did and chalking it up to his lack of training.
Canter departures come from the hind end. Shift your weight to your outside seat pocket to plant the rear outside foot that the horse is going to drive off of, inside leg and tip the nose inside slightly, outside leg as soon as you feel that inside shoulder lift to take a step.
Wash and repeat. |
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Extreme Veteran
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| I would want to know if there was a reason the horse was unwilling to pick up that lead - sore hocks/stifle, needs chiro work, etc.
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The Advice Guru
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| Start in a round pen |
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 Twister Survivor
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Location: Minnesota | My mare used to not know how to pick up her right lead. She'd lope a perfect circle to the right on the wrong lead LOL the way I got her to figure it out was in a small-ish arena, loped her around to the left and when we got to the rail Id go into a figure 8 and not let her not lope. She figured it out very quickly (and flying lead changes!) She picks up the correct lead every time now. |
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Location: SE Oklahoma | For one that doesn't want to pick up the correct lead I'll trot at a fence straight on, then at the last second I'll turn and use outside leg and smooch real big and push him into it. If he picks it up I'll relax and let him lope and I'll leave him alone. If he misses it I immediately break back down, regroup and try again. 99% of the time this works. |
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