How to Exercise a Horse With Indirect Turns at a Jog

Video Transcript

"I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village. I am going to show you some tips and techniques that I use when exercising my horse using callisthenics's. Another really great way to use indirect turns is at the jog so what I am going to do is bump her up here into a jog and it is using the same techniques. So what I want her to do is an indirect turn to the right. I am going to lift my left reign and use my left leg up by her shoulder. So I get her left leg to cross over the right one. If I want to do one the left, I am going to pick up my right reign and use my right leg up by her shoulder. Now it is important when doing this that you want to keep their heads kind of straight, you don't want to pull them too far one way or the other. That is going to cause her shoulder to drop because the whole point of doing indirect turns like this is to get your horse really square and balanced and its shoulder. So if we pull her head too far one way or the other, it is going to cause her to not be square and to drop one way of the other. So this will really soften your horse. It will get your horse lifting its shoulder. It will get your horse nice and soft and supple. Once your horse gets good at it, it really takes minimal effort. So this is a really great training tool that you can use to teach your horse either neck reign or get your horse a lot softer, a lot more supple. It also helps you to steer if you are in a show ring situation. That is how you would want to perform indirect turns with a jog. "