Teaching from the canter to the lope?

Circling frequently, using lots of half halts, keeping your leg on, and her between leg and hand. How well she can do this will depend on her conformation and her temperament. When she starts to speed up, half halt, sit, canter a circle (20 meter or smaller, if possible). Come out of the circle onto the straight, if she speeds up again, repeat. Don't get into a pulling match with her. Keep your contact light, using half halts, as strongly as necessary, then back to light contact. She needs to be balanced on her hindquarters well, in order to do a balanced slow canter (lope). Reward her for any improvement.

When your horse reaches forward at the canter, check her, then release. Check and release, check and release with each forward reach of her front end. This will encourage her to shorten her stride. When you get a slight slow down, relax and don't check. When she speeds up, check again until she slows down a bit. Then let up again. When she will hold the slower speed, she won't get "bumped". Then (a few training sessions later) ask for a little slower lope by checking her down again. It won't take her long.

Two other things - you have to be sitting properly giving the "go slow" body cues with your legs and weight. If you're leaning forward and checking all you're doing is encouraging her to lunge forward with you.

And - some horses are naturally longer strided than others and will cover more ground thus being "faster". You don't want to chop her down to an abnormal stride just to stay in western pleasure. If you're going to have to go against your horse's true stride, pick a different class to enter. Maybe reining or something.

Loping is utilized in Western exhilaration. that's slower and the horse travels with their head low many times. The canter is a quickly 3-beat gait the place the horse drives with its hindquarters and contains itself in a organic physique or working physique. Cantering is utilized in English, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that i assume Western riders can canter many times in the event that they needed too. not that the lope is 'undesirable" or something.

Pull back easy on the reins (and keep your leg on her if she tries to stop) until she slows down. When she slows release your reins and repeat. (It might take a while for her to realize what you want) Also shes going to need to build those muscles in order to travel slower. Also circles work good too. When she starts getting fast make her do small circles until she slows then turn her out when she does.

do the pullie rein.

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