Straightening a crooked horse that doesn’t want to strike off on the correct canter lead

Does your horse struggle with one lead more than another or just refuse to pick it up all together?

There are 2 reasons for our horses not striking off the canter lead correctly.

1. You may not be communicating clearly which lead you want

2. Your horse may be working crooked and not actually able to strike off that canter lead easily and consistently.

Have a look at this training with Rabbit where we can see that he is loading the right shoulder and rotating the pelvis which is making it difficult for him to get the right canter lead. We implemented our exercises from our course green to self carriage and he is now picking up both canter leads consistently and easily.