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Posted By Ruth Hogan Poulsen
on December 3, 2008, 6:12 pm
Ok guys... ive been flooded with questions about picking up the correct lead... here is a brief sumary and some ideas for you... if you want to see the video (ill sent the link again, but it did not work the last time) go to youtube and search for Jane savoie Dressage... youll find a video on picking up the correct lead, as well as many others... we (Jane and I) have put together a bunch of these clips for you... hope you enjoy them... Ruth
Even this is a dressage horse, this works for nearly every discipline... I am a dressage rider, but started as a hunter/jumper and then eventing... so if your having this trouble with your horse... give some of these ideas a try!


here is the quick written note...

Canter On The Correct Lead Every Time!

It's not uncommon for riders to struggle getting their horses to pick up one of their canter leads. The following are some simple exercises to help you pick up the right lead every time!

The first exercise is done completely in the walk. You will practice positioning your horse alternately for the left lead and then switch to the right lead after a few strides.

Let’s say you decided to pick up left lead:

--Put your weight on your left seat bone.

--Flex your horse to the left by turning your left wrist as if you’re unlocking a door. That is, start with your thumb as the highest point of the hand, Turn your thumb to the left, and bring your baby finger very close to the withers but don’t cross over the withers. In this moment, your knuckles or fingernails will be pointing up toward your face. Then put your hand back in the original position with your thumb as the highest point of the hand.

--Support with your right rein so your horse doesn’t over bend his neck to the left. His face should be one inch to the inside of a neutral position. (Neutral means his head and neck are straight in front of his body so that his chin is directly in front of his “cleavage”.)

--Your left leg is on the girth to say, “Go forward to the canter.”

--Your right leg is a couple of inches behind the girth because it will signal his right hind leg to strike off into left lead canter. (He has to start cantering with the outside hind leg in order to end up on the correct lead.)

Stay in this “left lead canter” position for a few strides in the walk, and then switch your aids as if asking for right lead canter (Remember, you’re doing all of this in the walk). That is:

--Weight on the right seat bone.

--Right rein flexes the horse’s head one inch to the right.

--Left rein is like a siderein that prevents too much bend in the neck.

--Right leg on the girth.

--Left leg behind the girth.

When you get ready to ask for the depart, do the following things:

1. Keep the horse positioned to the inside as you did above.

2. When you ask for the canter depart, push your inside seat bone forward toward your horse’s inside ear.

3. Give a little squeeze with your inside leg on the girth to tell your horse to go “forward into the canter”

4. Use your outside leg in a windshield wiper-like action to signal the outside hind to strike-off into the canter.

Check that you’re on the correct lead by:

--Keeping your head erect, but peak down at his front legs. If you’re on the correct lead, the inside front leg should reach further forward than the outside front leg.

--Make a circle. If you’re on the correct lead, the canter will feel balanced. If you’re on the wrong lead, the canter will feel unbalanced.

If you end up of the wrong lead, chances are you didn’t keep your horse bent through his body and flexed to the inside at his poll during the transition. Your horse will pick up whatever lead he’s bent and flexed toward.

Here are 2 things you can do to help with the bend:

1. Walk on a small circle to bend your horse. Just before you finish the small circle, keep the bend and apply the aids for the canter. Once he canters, arc out onto a larger circle.

2. Walk or trot on a small circle. Leg yield (That is, push your horse sideways.) out to the larger circle. Keep your inside leg on the girth as you leg yield to help with the bend. If you’re circling to the right, imagine you’re pushing his rib cage to the left while his neck and hindquarters stay to the right.


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Posted By Kristina Dennis
on October 29, 2008, 10:01 pm
I had just starting learning dressage when i had to quit taking lessons. I still try to practice on my own but it's a lot harder with out a trainer

Comment By Sarah Vadnais
on November 1, 2008, 10:03 pm

That happened to me too! I started lessons this summer, my trainer lost all her clients, except me, and quit the biz to get a J.O.B. :(
It is SO much harder on your own. Helps to have an expert on the ground saying "no, that's not it" "there! did ya feel that? That's it!"

Comment By Trina Lusse
on November 27, 2008, 12:52 pm

Get "101 Dressage Excersizes" look it up on the interent- tack stores will have it ect. ITs a great book! since I was 8 i've had lessons weekly I'm 20 years old and got my first job after college- I moved my horse up closer to my job and Windsor doesn't have a huge selection of good instructors. I subscribe to magazine like dressage Canada, and i've been pulling out my old magazines and books and read them and use what i learn, and the book i reference in the begining has diagrams and such that helps your every move!
But i encourage you to still get coaching - I trailor back to my coach and research other coaches in the area, watch clinics and it all pays off and you wana check your not getting into bad habits or going about things wrong. I was worried for a month about how I was going about my Travers adn shoulder-in's I trailered to my coach and found out that I was giving him the correct aids and doing a good job so now i have more confidence and since then our travers has improved because I'm more confident in the aids I'm using and horses can read that!

Posted By Virginia Barnwell
on November 16, 2008, 8:34 pm
i love dressage! i show novice CT and training level and am attempting some first level stuff.

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on November 10, 2008, 8:19 am
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Posted By Melinda Clark
on October 16, 2008, 4:30 pm
I have a background in both western and english and it is hard to believe how many people think that dressage is only english riders. They don't understand that it is the basis for everything else to be built off of.

Comment By Nicole Raymond
on October 29, 2008, 11:20 pm

the sad part is about them not knowing is many of those people train horses. so they never use all of their muscles the way the basics of dressage make them work and build up strength

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