Flicker
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Hi - I wonder if anyone can offer any advice on a little problem I've encountered recently. My girlie has a bone spavin in her off hind hock, but it has fused and she works sound. She is still a little stiffer on the left rein and is inclined to bend to the outside if she can get away with it. Other than that (and the little canter problem) she's a dream, works on a contact, tracks up evenly and has beautiful paces in trot.
However, recently she has taken to bombing off in canter on the left rein. Her right rein canter is gorgeous: light, collected, responsive. But when I ask her for left rein canter, we're off like the clappers! And she is completely bent to the outside and if I ask her to bend with inside leg / outside hand, she just takes hold on the outside hand and seems to think that inside leg is asking her to go faster!
I am guessing that she's unbalanced and is trying to compensate by zooming around as quick as possible (her head shoots up in the air too, so her back is hollow).
How do I teach her that it would all be so much easier if she just relaxed and took things a bit slower?
Interestingly, she is better in the big outdoor school - I think because there's more space and she has to think about where she's going because there are no walls to guide her. But she's still a speedy in there.
Any brilliant suggestions??
However, recently she has taken to bombing off in canter on the left rein. Her right rein canter is gorgeous: light, collected, responsive. But when I ask her for left rein canter, we're off like the clappers! And she is completely bent to the outside and if I ask her to bend with inside leg / outside hand, she just takes hold on the outside hand and seems to think that inside leg is asking her to go faster!
I am guessing that she's unbalanced and is trying to compensate by zooming around as quick as possible (her head shoots up in the air too, so her back is hollow).
How do I teach her that it would all be so much easier if she just relaxed and took things a bit slower?
Interestingly, she is better in the big outdoor school - I think because there's more space and she has to think about where she's going because there are no walls to guide her. But she's still a speedy in there.
Any brilliant suggestions??
