I wonder if there will be an correlation with a person's handiness? Would be interesting if people could state also if they're left or right handed too.
My best rein is my horses worst rein so we compensate one another!! were all left and right handed even horses i have been told its to do with which side they lie in there mums womb??
Both my horse and I's worst rein is the right rein.
I'm right handed and my left side is much weaker due to illness so I struggle to turn on that rein when I'm tired as my left shoulder shoots forwards and I struggle to stop my horse falling out as my left leg and hand are weak.
If the horse I'm riding is stiff or their left rein is the worse rein I can correct myself enough to keep the horse straight/turn/have the correct bend.
Currently it is the left rein but when I first started schooling him it was the right rein!
When asked to canter to the right he would panic, throw his head in the air, and piss off on the left lead! Now his schooling has come a long way he actually finds it harder to bend and balance to the left.
I have a very weak right leg and my horse is not very flexible on the right rein. However, he's much better on the left rein but my left hand is atrocious, too hard, not giving enough.. I am left handed. I don't think there's much hope for us ever being balanced myself!
Mine is the left rein, Hattie just won't canter on it with me although she does it beautifully on the lunge so it must be crooked me. I'm right handed too.
All of my horses are worse on the right rein, for the simple reason I am terribly one sided. Which is why I don't profess to have 'well schooled' horses - I know better than to try!