Mary Wanless teaches how to turn a horse by steering the shoulders instead of pulling the nose. Pulling the nose causes the neck to hinge and the horse to jackknife onto the outside shoulder. Learn to steer the shoulders first, letting the horse take successive inside steps around the turn.
One of the other problems that happens a lot in. In turning horses is the rider is focusing on the nose, and what they get is. Is jackknifing. So, you know, if you think of the horse has its shoulders and then it has its neck, and, you know, essentially the neck ends up being like a hinge. And, you know, if the horse falls out going in this direction, the rider pulls on the. On the nose, the neck comes this way, and then the shoulder kind of goes off in the other direction, you know, causing a jackknife. And that's when you get the horse falling out. So it's really important to think of bend being separate to turning, and it's really important to think of learning how to turn and steer the horse's shoulders first before you even think about doing bend. Often what I see riders doing is they're going to come up to here and turn left, and what happens is they pull on the inside rein, and the horse starts turning left but stepping right. So the horse does this, and a lot of its weight ends up on the outside shoulder, or in this case, on the right shoulder, because the horse is busy stepping right. And essentially, yes, that is falling out, and that is jackknifing. That is the horse falling onto the outside shoulder. When your horse turns correctly, what should happen is the horse takes a step with its front legs to the left, follows up, steps to the left, steps to the left, and what you get is the horse making a series of steps to the inside around the turn. And when you have. When you keep that in mind, when you think of turning like that, when you think of steering the shoulders in that way, you will get much better results in your turns.
