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There is a reason for this post and I will say what others told me to do and what I did when others have replied.

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*twiddles fingers waiting in anticipation*
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Will wait patiently with you L though cant join in twiddling thums as have only one working, other looks like a blue cumberland sausage after my fall...
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be interesting to see where this thread is going...

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You got any biscuits? I'm getting hungry, we may have to set up camp
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It's not harsh at all - I cannot canter - end of.....i have tried and failed so many times, it is because i constantly block the horse due to my dreadful, unbalanced riding - i have tried lessons, they didn't help, so now i have someone in to ride my horse 3 days a week, he goes fab for her...and i just stick to hacking in walk.

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I wasn't saying it wasn't the case for some, I just think that it's harsh to say that is the case for everyone as I don't believe it is always the case
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I also appologised to the poster for jumping down their throat as I was told it was meant in a tongue in cheek way.
 
I don't have a verdict. In this example there was a physical reason but in other cases there may not be.
It's just me being curious.
 
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If your horse was having problems getting the correct canter lead, on either leg?

There is a reason for this post and I will say what others told me to do and what I did when others have replied.

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Had this issue recently with Miss P. I've been with two instructors, had the back checked too. Everyone said she wasn't broken!

I couldn't get right canter. She would always get the wrong lead. I was told to lunge her....still wrong. Ride her straight into a corner and ask then....still wrong. Turn her head to the outside....still wrong!

I have just found out how to fix it though (well 80% of the time).

I ask on the straight now. Turns out I was allowing her quarters to swing out slightly. If I ask on the straight and have her quarters in slightly, VOILA, we get it.

Also...I was looking down her right shoulder and sitting too deep when asking. Basically I was desperate! I now look to the outside and ask from rising trot.

Does said horse land on the correct lead and maintain it after a fence? P did.
 
Very interesting!

I was convinced mine was broken but everyone else thought otherwise.

It would seem that now they've fixed me, they were right, as she's improving no end now.
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Ok, that'll teach me to read the post properly
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but it's still too broad a question.

If my well schooled horse suddenly started not striking off on the correct leg, then I would get physio out to check back and possible muscle soreness etc.... if I was teaching a green horse to strike off on the correct leg then I would use the corners and allow even a little outside bend to start with to help him/her balance. Then maybe try with a pole.
 
Its interesting reading this because physical is always my first route but I wonder if everyone always does the back, saddle, teeth route or just tries schooling round it. I guess it depends on how you know your horse and what advice is given to you. Back, saddle, teeth is like the set mantra now. We give it for everything from naughty/problem horses to schooling issues.
 
Yes all fixed and cantering beautifully again. I just wish the silly moose would tell me in simple ways when she hurts.
 
I would always check back first but only cos my pone had a real problem cantering on the right rein fine when jumping otherwise would not strike off inc on the lunge. He was out, it was solved first by my chiro and then gradual re schooling with 2 diff instructors Now if i feel he is getting disunited when jumping or he starts to strike off wrong he is checked straight away. I hadn't had him long the first time it happened or may have got someone out earlier.

Patches if you bend them too much to the inside they can struggle mechanically to lift the inside shoulder and bring it up to strike off correctly. If you want to go back to asking in a corner try some counter flexion just before strike off.

It worked with my boy because I had gotten soooo angsty about getting him to strike off on the right rein I had him too bent in the neck (which then causes the hind end to drift out and then back inside can't come forwards either)
 
When my mare refused t ocanter at all on the right rein it turned out that her neck was sore (second and third vertbrea). Vet did chiro and accupuncture and within 10 days her muscle difference between left and right shoulder was sorted and so was her inabilaty to canter on the right rein.
 
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