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I *knew* I'd get in trouble if I tried to explain
how to ask for a specific canter lead. <roll eyes>
Like *I* know what I'm doing...

Someone pointed out to me:
> ...are you sure you tilt his head to the "inside"??
> I tip the head very slightly to the outside (toward
> the rail)....basically throws the inside shoulder
> forward and they almost have to take the right lead.

she's quite right. You're kind of trying to make the
horse "bulge" over towards that inside front leg, so
by tilting the head to the outside and pushing with
your outside leg behind the girth, you're squeezing
the horse like a tube of toothpaste to almost fall
into the canter on that inside front leg.

Sorry for any confusion... (like Ray isn't even more
confused now.)



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Lucy Chaplin Trumbull
elsietee AT foothill DOT net
Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, California
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