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Some of you may remember ages ago I posted about my horse not being able to canter on the correct lead on the right leg. Well, HE STILL CANT!!!! Ive had his saddle checked and his back, Ive tried the asking for canter over a pole thing, Ive tried playing around my my position and nothing has worked.
What do I do next?? Please help me!
 
I don't remember your previous post, is it that he can't strike off on the right leg or that he can't maintain it?
I find it useful with younger horses to ask them to leg yield out for a couple of steps on a circle and then ask for the canter transition when on a closed side of the school, if it's the transition they struggle with.
 
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Dont no, I dont turn him out

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What's he like with another rider on him.
 
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I don't remember your previous post, is it that he can't strike off on the right leg or that he can't maintain it?
I find it useful with younger horses to ask them to leg yield out for a couple of steps on a circle and then ask for the canter transition when on a closed side of the school, if it's the transition they struggle with.

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His transition is fine, he just cant strike off on the correct leg. Thank you for the advise though, I will try that tonight.
 
A trick that really works for me is to leg-yield into the corner and then ask. Seems to get them off the inside leg and into the outside hand really well. Do a 20m circle, leg-yield 3 strides from where you intend to ask for canter, when you feel them push into your outside hand simply slide your outside leg back and ping you're in canter on the right leg.

It all comes down to having that contact on the outside rein correct and them moving off your inside leg. Having had the exact same problem as you, I tried all sorts of methods but this one consistently brings results.
 
Is he quite young?

I was riding someones youngster who striked up wrong all the time-best thing was more outside reign then inside and lots of outside leg. Seemed to work, the bugger used to try and strike up wrong before I even asked, but gradually he got my aids and does it pefectly now

Takes lots of work though to get it though to them! I see you jump from your signiture, is it the same horse? If so does he go round the course on the wrong leg?
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Oh, I better just say (to avoid confusion) Its not that he doesnt get turned out, he goes out every day all day, but some one else turns him out for me!

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Ah, that makes more sense.

So why don't you spend some time with him - turn him out yourself, and see what he does in the field............
 
That was what I was thinking "Orangeempire" I have just been riding someone else's horse who wants to strike off right lead all the time, whatever we're doing, this horse is around 17 yrs old.

So, he wants to strike off right......he was not truly bending the right way, despite the very well educated owner's say so (owner is a pony club A and rider is her daughter, also educated and good rider) the horse was bending like "S", his head was right, but shoulder actually popping in to the right. Being as he is not mine, and I'm not used to him I felt it. So I had to be very firm and (did wear spurs) push him in with the inside leg in advance of the aid to make his shoulder go into place and the bend correct. A further symptom of his incorrect canter strike off, was his contact, (as Orangeempire says) you have to have the horse taking a full contact on the outside rein and not so much on the inside rein. This horse that I rode was very much of a leaner on the right rein, (and funnily enough, I am a strong left hander, who makes my own horse lean more on the left rein), so it suited everyone very well that I was borrowing this horse! You need to twiddle a bit on the inside rein to get the horse to "get off it" a bit, and take a constant feel with the outside one for the strike-off and all the canter.

Then when you ask, make it really obvious as though the horse is a baby. Really move that outside leg loads back and ask all in one go, but only when you have set up the bend and the contact and you're sure you're happy with all that.
 

Emma123 - Yes, he is young, 6. This hasnt been a problem till this year though, But I am going to school him tonight and work on it and use all the advise given.

AmyMay - Its impossible for me turn him out in the field in the mornings as my yard is a very long way away from home. But I turn him out at weekends and he just stands and eats anyway!
 
This is exactly what I was being told to do my instructor on Sat but its due to Oscars ligament damage that he doesn't like to canter on the right (he thinks it still hurts) but after doing this a few more times, he found it didnt hurt coz he was thinking about bending and moving sideways rather than "o no that canter is gonna hurt so I wont do it"

Good luck dude!
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