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okay hello everyone today we are talking about picking up the rightly canner so on amelia's
dressage club which is on facebook if you're not a member of the group click the link below in the
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and so many good discussions but someone asked a question the other day where they were like
can't get the right lead i think that was all it said and then there was a lot of great comments
and suggestions trying to help the person figure out how to get their horse to pick up the right
lead so it's very common that horses prefer either one lead or the other the canner is the only
naturally bent gate so what i mean by that is that there's a left lead canner that you want to
take when you're going to the left and a right leaf canner for when you're going to the right
and most all horses prefer one lead over the other that's just normal i would say most horses tend to
prefer the left lead canner and the rightly canner can be a little trickier so today i'm going to
give you some tips to help you pick up the right lead or the left lead if that's your hard lead let
me know in the comments which lead is harder for you and stick around if you want these tips today
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so tip number one the first thing that i always check in with if i'm having trouble picking up the
right lead or one of my students is your position and are you actually giving the correct aid
for the right lead canner and often you're not so let me get turned here to the side for the right
lead canner your left leg needs to go back and your right leg needs to stay at the girth i've
noticed that for some reason a lot of people have trouble actually talking to their left leg and
getting their left leg to go back so about here is where i would say my left leg is at the girth
and about here is where i would put my left leg to ask for the right lead canner
so you need to kind of first maybe have someone on the ground tell you
and be sure that it's at the girth behind the girth if your horse isn't picking up the right
leak canner you might need to put your outside leg a little farther back than you think you need to
the other thing that's important when you're asking for the canner is that it's it's kind
of both legs some horses require more inside leg and some horses require more outside leg
but at the end of the day your inside leg creates the impulsion and keeps the horse from falling in
and your outside leg indicates the lead of the horse it's also important if you want to take
the right leg can or that you're sitting a little bit on your inside seat bone so that the horse
can sitting on the inside seat bone helps the horse to bend and kind of take the direction
of the right lead canner it helps to put the rider over the horse's center of gravity
so that they're better balanced for taking the rightly canner so let me just show you
the correct aids for the right lead canner because it could be that you're just simply
not asking your horse in the right way so first off is pick up the trot
and it's always important to
make sure that your horse is bending so if i'm going to ask for the right leak
canner i want him bending on this circle i'm going to half halt slide my outside leg back
and there's the canner so hopefully you could see when i went by there i'll do it one more time
so i'm making sure that i'm on my inside seat bone i had to wake him up a little bit there
because he was a little bit asleep and there good boy so there he took the rightly canner so that's
the first thing i would make sure is that you're actually doing the right thing with your body to
get the horse to take the right leak canner and you may need someone on the ground to help you
figure that out that you're actually doing the right thing now my second tip for picking up the
right leak canner or the left lead canner is that you want to be smart about where you ask for the
canner so i see a lot of people like they kind of do this they're they're going down the long side
let's say at the trot and their horse is like a little counter flexed and then right here
they start just trying to pick up the canner on a straightaway so you can see he took the wrong lead
so that just asking for the canner on the straightaway is a terrible place to ask for
the canner if i'm having trouble picking up the right lead canner i'm going to put my horse on
a circle and i'm going to ask him to canter right when i come to the rail so right when i come to b
that's when i'm going to ask for the canner so that i'm using the rail to help indicate the lead
for my horse horses want to canner on the correct lead it's not comfortable for them to counter
on the incorrect lead so because of that you really want to be sure that you ask for the canter
either coming through a corner or coming towards the rail let me show you the same
thing to the left so if i'm going to ask for the left lead canner i'm going to ask for
it right there right as i'm coming to the rail so that my horse sees the rail and thinks okay
i'm going to turn left so i should probably pick up the left lead canner horses in general
want to be on the correct lead because like i said before it's easier for them
to balance and maintain the canner when they are on the correct lead the boy jack good boy
so that's tip number one is ask on a circle when you're coming towards the rail or you can also
ask when you're coming into the corner like between m and c would be a good place another
great exercise to help you pick up the right leak canner is to do a leg yield into the canner so
what the leg yield does is it gets your horse off of the inside leg and into the outside rain
so that when you ask for the canner they're already bending to the right and filling up
your outside rain and they're more likely to pick up the canner so what you can do is just go
up the quarter line make just a very gradual forward leg yield when you touch the rail
circle immediately counter good boy so you can see how i kind of did everything
at once again i would i didn't ask on the straight line i was turning him onto the
circle but i used a little bit of a leg yield to get him set up for that canner transition
let me show you one more time so a lot of times horses don't like to bend to the right and
because of that when the horses counter bend when they're bent to the left it's going to be harder
for them to pick up the right league canner so again i'm leg yielding him getting him
into the outside rain half halt give on the right reign and canner on the right lead good boy jack
good boy so that's one exercise that can help you to pick up the right lead canner
good boy and then the final exercise is a little bit this is an exercise that you would use
more for a green horse or a horse that it just is like it's not that the horse really understands
the left lead and the right lead yet so this would be more for a green horse or a horse
that you're just stumped on and this is a little bit of a last resort thing so believe it or not
horses when they're trotting they are either trotting on the left or the right lead trot
what i mean by that is that when i'm trotting here and i want to pick up the right lead
canner i want to actually get him to fling his right front toe more forward so that he's set
up to take the right league canner what happens sometimes is that horses will be over bent and
just falling to the outside so when he's falling to the outside that makes his left front take a
bigger step than the right front which is going to make him want to take the left lead canner
so sometimes what you need to do is you actually need to counter flex your horse right when you
ask for the canner so a little counter flexion and canner because it puts him onto that right front
and then he doesn't have a choice but to pick up the right leg canner like i said before though
this is kind of a a crutch because ultimately you really want your horse to stay properly flexed to
the right and off of your inside leg when you ask for the right leak canner good boy jack
so i hope that these tips help you like i said before it's totally normal that you have trouble
picking up one lead over the other and it's also normal especially if you have a young horse that
sometimes it changes like one week you can get the right lead but not the left and then the next week
it's a little different so you just have to play around with it and keep rehearsing the aids keep
using the correct aids and make sure you're using the correct aids so that over time your horse will
start to understand that like yes okay there's a left lead and there's a rightly canner so
be sure to check out our facebook club amelia's dressage club on facebook because we get a lot
of great questions like someone was asking about this rightly canner and there were
a lot of great ideas from other horsemen so it's a super fun group and thanks for watching
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