HELP! my horse cant canter on the right leg!

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Ever since i brought my horse back into work after a month off over the winter (due to the weather) he wont canter on the correct leading leg!

Left rein is totaly fine but on the right rein he goes wrong every time , so frustrating!:confused:
On the lunge he'll do it fine and also if i put a pole in the corner and ask over that he'll sometimes go on the correct leg ...
all his tack fits correctly and he has no back problems ... i have no clue what to try to get him to do it!
 
try making sure ALL your weight is on the inside, exaggerate it and look to the outside. (they often throw your weight to the outside when they are unbalanced)

Also make sure your outside leg is RIGHT back to get his outside leg to start the canter
 
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Keep working with what he can do. Get him cantering on the lunge so that he builds up strength and keep asking over the pole in the corner and make sure that your aids are very correct and that the quality of the trot is good. Each time he goes wrong pull him up quickly, get a good trot, turn him off the track and ask again.
 
Mine's just gone through 2 months of this. What worked for me:

1. Put a pole or 3 in the centre of the school, approach in trot on a right bend and then ask for canter over pole.

2. Bizarrely (something I hate to admit I saw on a Parelli show on TV) having counter flexion when you ask for the transition.

3. Riding a 10m half circle left and then return to the track on rt rein and ask when you get to the track.

Basically mine does (or did) find canter right a bit difficult, now I've worked really hard I got an 8 and a 7 for them in my last (novice) dressage!
 
TBH, if the horse canters well on the lunge and all tack fits, this sounds like rider error. What does the horse do with a different rider?
Will the horse do right canter with a rider on the lunge?
As above; make sure that you are relaxed, put a pole on/just after a corner, trot to the corner, ask on the corner and you *should* get the right lead, if you ask positively.
 
Have you had your back checked? If you've ruled out any issue with your horse, it may be your position that's blocking him. Being your horse he would be more sensitive about you not being 'right'. Just a thought.
 
scarymare said:
2. Bizarrely (something I hate to admit I saw on a Parelli show on TV) having counter flexion when you ask for the transition.

Not just a parelli trick !
Taught to me when I was having trouble getting the right canter leg by my instructor.
Also try the 10m circle, and then ask.
Kx
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I had this problem with my girl the over the weekend and i tried everything i could to correct it. It just so happened my friend was coming out for a flatwork lesson and i explained to her once we had warmed up and i showed her on a left rein fine on a right rein kept getting the wrong leg it didnt matter how many times i tried, anyhow as suspected it was me:D it always is rarely my girls fault lol i wasnt holding my rein contact (i thought i was :o) and didnt get a proper inside bend, she is stiffer on that rein always has been but because i wasnt holding the reins she could make her own mind up so did and choose the easy option!!!

Anyhow its all sorted now just need to hold my reins :p It may be worth getting someone else to watch from the ground or try on the lunge, they seem to have a knack of picking up the little things we do that make all the difference.

K x
 
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Are you sitting up properly, with your shoulders back and your hips actually asking for right canter?

Sometimes when you're expecting a fault, it happens anyway. Help by lifting the right rein slightly and *think* right canter.
 
My 6 year old struggled with right canter as well, it was very frustrating at the time, and I found the more I got frustrated, the worse the problem got. Try to relax, and just bring him/her back when you get it wrong and ask again. don't keep changing the way you ask as that might get confusing.
I also found that turning up the 3/4 line and leg yielding in trot to the fence, then asking for the canter in the corner seemed to help.
We're still not perfect, but I was only saying the other day, we now seem to get it right more often than we get it wrong!
good luck!
 
Hi, you have had lots of advice on here, all of which I may have given myself, but dont forget having an instructor come and watch, even for 1 session could save you some trials, I believe nothing else beats another pair of eye, or even another person on top sometimes. we can all get carried away with things and what started as a....oops wrong leg, can easily turn in to a problem we anticipate and create. good luck, and it will come right, but dont forget to practice both leads else the other may slip :)
 
My boy used to struggle and we used to leg yield on a circle and then on the way out I would ask for canter. This way his hind inside leg is already under him
 
When I had this trouble, I would ask for my boy to bend around my outside leg for about five trot strides, then get him perfectly streight on the long side, about half way at B or E I would ask for canter making sure that I was also using quite a lot of outside leg and rein, and as I asked, I would raise my inside hand ever so slightly.

If he went on the wrong leg, I would pull him up, and the second that he broke from canter, ask him to pick it up again, ideally not letting him do more than one or two strides of trot.

Exaggerating inside aids just made it worse and more confusing for my boy :)

Can also recommend leg yielding to the fence then asking immediately, and also asking from walk because for some reason mine found sorting his legs out easier like that!
 
I had this same trouble on the same rein. My instructor gave me some advice, remember to sit up tall and straight, don't start throwing your weight all to the inside as you don't want to throw them off balance anymore then they possiby already are, lift your inside rein up slightly to give them that little bit of extra support, and to think about sitting up so your feeling their outside hind being able to strike off first as this is the general idea! Seems to works for me anyway:)
Took us a while to get it right bbut now seem to have it sussed!
Best of luck!:D
 
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