How to Steer a Horse at a Canter

Video Transcript

" Hi I'm Kelly with Expert Village. I am going to show you some tricks and techniques when cantering and loping my horse. The next thing I am going to show you is some techniques that you can use when you are steering your horse at the canter. Let me move her up into a canter. Now when your steering, of course you want to look where you want to go, so your just going to open your inside rein a little bit, back toward your hip, look where you want to go, keep using outside leg. Again, you will just keep using your outside hand , look where you want to go, keep our shoulders nice and square, you're keep applying outside leg pressure, keep her forward momentum going, keep your head up, keep on looking in the direction you want to go, keep your shoulders square. Now if I want to change direction, I'm going to the other way, ask her for the opposite lead, so again, I'm steering her to the right, so I am opening up my right rein, looking where I want to go, applying outside leg pressure, keeping my head up looking in the direction I'm going, go back to the left, and back to the right, she is doing a little bit of a flying lead change which is when your horse will change their lead. So we are just doing simple changes with her, so this is a really easy way to get your horse more balanced, teach your horse how to steer and teach your horse how to pick up the right lead. Whoa. So that's how you want to steer your horse at the canter."