Training your horse to roll back in cutting involves keeping the horse relaxed without any jerky movements, so as not to startle the cattle. Practice a slow, relaxed roll back with information from a champion cutter in this video on equine sports.
Hi, I'm Reed Wood. I've been in the business for 15 years. I'd like to talk to you today about teaching a horse to roll back. When we get on that horse it's a good trainable horse. We want that horse's mind thinking to sit back, to roll back so when we get on that horse we want it to back. We want to put our outside leg against that horse and we want a nice, easy, slow cross over in it's front legs. We want a nice, everything we do with this horse is relaxed and quiet. We don't want a lot of, a lot of jerking, a lot of motion. We want that horse to be as relaxed and quiet as he can be. We want the horse's legs to cross over and we want to take care of those legs. We want them to cross over, step back and turn very slowly, very softly. We want to see just the corner of the horse's eye, tip it's nose and then again we are going to put one leg, put our outside leg against the horse's side and squeeze that horse. We want that horse to move slowly, really easy. And we want it to cross over with it's one back leg, staying in place which that is a pivot foot. We want that horse to pivot from it's, using it's rear end. Keep in mind we want it really slow, really relaxed. We want to build that horse's confidence up. This is Reed Wood, and that's how you teach a horse to roll back.
