How to Pick Up the Correct Canter Lead
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Raise your hand if you love to canter! The canter is such a fun gait to ride, but it’s probably the trickiest gait to ride well. One common struggle riders often have is getting their horse to pick up the correct canter lead. If you are having trouble getting your horse to pick up the correct canter lead, then you’ll want to check out this week’s video.
Like us, horses are asymmetrical, and often they have a harder time picking up one canter lead versus the other. If your horse is having trouble picking up the correct canter lead, here are a few things to keep in mind:
· Where are you asking for the canter? - If your horse is having trouble picking up the correct lead or you’re just beginning to work on the canter with your horse, then the easiest place to ask for the canter is on a circle, bending line, just as you come towards the rail, or as you are turning back towards the barn. Asking on a straight line or the long side is the most difficult place to get the correct lead.
· Is your horse set up to pick up the correct lead? - Setting up your horse for the canter transition is key to helping them pick up the correct lead. When asking for the canter, our horses must be bent in the direction that you are riding. If they are counter-bent, then it is more likely that they will pick up the incorrect lead.
· Are you asking for the canter correctly? - After you’ve gotten your horse bending correctly, make sure that they are going forward, and feel balanced, then you can half-halt and ask for the canter. Remember, the aids for the canter are: inside leg on at the girth, outside leg slightly behind the girth, and slightly more weight on the inside seat bone.
Watch the video where I demonstrate the correct and incorrect canter leads and talk more about helping your horse learn to pick up the correct lead. Remember to reward your horse when they do pick up the correct lead, pet them, tell them “good job” and give them a walk break!
I hope these tips help you with your canter transitions!
Happy Riding!
Amelia
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Aids for the Canter Transition
01:53 Mechanics of the Canter
02:56 Incorrect vs. Correct Lead
04:01 Asking at the Right Moment
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You said the key words. Get the horse ready. I use an exercise that I learned at a clinic where we trotted a half circle away from the rail, leg yield back to the rail and then ask for the canter as you start the circle off the rail. I found it help as I was learning with my horses.
Absolutely! Great riding!
Thank you so much! I pick up a canter great but I am working with lesson horses and I tend to pick up the wrong lead, again, it's me, not the horse, of course. This helped me so much and appretiate the vid. I came back to say that I haven't picked up the wrong one for a while. This really helps!
That's great well done!
Your comment regarding the horse also leading on a trot is super helpful! I've been riding for years and nobody has mentioned this to me, but in hindsight it makes total sense, when they are looking in the wrong direction they are on the wrong lead
I so agree. I do love it when Amelia says something that makes total sense but no one has ever said it. I have felt it for years too. 😊 She always has my lightbulbs going on!!!! She makes me a better rider, teacher and trainer.
I always have trouble getting my horse to pick up the correct right canter lead! This helps so much thank you!!!
You are so welcome!
AMAZING. This video and your other video on time to ask for the canter by counting when the shoulder moves forward have helped me so much with a heavy and unbalanced horse that could not pick up the right lead. You are in the right place doing the right thing, a pure blessing! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for being here! Hope to see you at the webinar this weekend; amelianewcombdressage.com/free-pirouette-webinar/
Thanks Amelia. Great reminders on the set up for the canter depart.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for this! I'm going to try it on my next ride.
Thanks Amelia
Helpfull video because I can use your tips. This instructions are welcome for basic riders like me. 👍👋
Glad it was helpful!
I enjoyed this and other of your vids 100%. I find the following concepts very interesting. Placing your weight on the side you want to canter. The second is where the horse travels from right to left on the leg yield and then canters on the right sided lead. Fascinating to me as it differs from how others do it, but i love that there are many ways of doing it. Could you elaborate some more on these points? Many, many thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I our barn we are taught to bring the head toward the wall and ask. It does make more sense your way but asking in the turn may be a help. Thanks.
Try it and let me know what you think!
I am teaching dressage at a barn where horses have been trained to turn to the wall and swing hips in to canter . It has been very very difficult to teach my students the correct set up for canter when the horse is confused as well as being off balance and disorganized.
I've been offered an off the track Thoroughbred who was a successful race horse & apparently has a nice slow canter too
Exciting!
Great video. I was working on the canter with Jr yesterday and I have video of him kicking out when I was asking for left lead Canter.... What an I suppose to do when he does that, it was just starting this be feeding time, and he got pissed bounced a bit, and he kicked out that left rear leg
Try working on something else for a bit and then ask again. If you get your transition nicely, be sure to reward him.
As ever, Amelia, this is so relatable. I’m interested to understand why horses bend and look in the opposite direction when the rider asks for canter. I ride a school horse who persists in bending in the opposite direction to our direction of travel but I don’t understand why that happens. She totally resists flexing in the direction we are going. welcome your thoughts oh how to remedy this. PS She is a super horse but this is a part of our communication that I just don’t understand.
So glad this was helpful and that you enjoyed!
Because the horse is on the forehand and they have the riders counter flex them so they “fall” onto the correct lead. It does serve a purpose but the horse can not lift themselves up into the canter if done this way.
What’s a good trick for putting more weight on your inside seat bone without leaving? I tend to lean really badly so I put more weight on my outside seat bone but I understand that this is incorrect. Horses move away from the weight.
Check out this video for some more help: amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/the-canter-seat-too-loose-too-tight-or-just-right/
My horse won’t pick up correct lead when he isn’t paying attention to my aids and gets too forward (he’s an OTTB ).
Great observation! Riding a pattern like the Snowman will help keep him on your aids. Check out this free PDF for a few patterns to try! amelianewcombdressage.com/lead-gen-patterns-figures-o/