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How To Keep Your Horse Straight to Jumps
*photo from yourhorse.co.uk* Keeping your horse straight to a jump is one of the many things on the checklist as you ride through your course. A great exercise to fix that problem is to set a pole or cavaletti (preferably one that has a stripe in the middle) in the ring on the rail or on the track of a large circle. Pick up a left lead canter and as you come around to your pole focus on the middle target of the pole. If you feel your horse leaning to the inside or turning before the pole keep your outside leg on him at the girth and shift bot... Read more
*photo from yourhorse.co.uk* Keeping your horse straight to a jump is one of the many things on the checklist as you ride through your course. A great exercise to fix that problem is to set a pole or cavaletti (preferably one that has a stripe in the middle) in the ring on the rail or on the track of a large circle. Pick up a left lead canter and as you come around to your pole focus on the middle target of the pole. If you feel your horse leaning to the inside or turning before the pole keep your outside leg on him at the girth and shift bot... Read more
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