How to Transition a Horse from Walk to Lope

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I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you some tips and techniques that I use when cantering and loping my horse. So when you are preparing to lope of course you want to make sure that your reins are even. So we are going to pull our reins up here and make sure they are the same length. Then we would run our hands down to it is a comfortable level so our horse it still can have its head. But we have enough control if we pick up she is going to respond easily to the bit. So we are going to pick up and get her a little collected here. We are going to move forward here into the walk. We are going to lay my outside leg on here. I'm going to get her to bring her hip in a little bit. So that would in sure once she starts ideally what you want the first leg of your lope to be is to be the horse pushing off of its inside leg. So that would insure your have proper cadent, your horse is lifting, your horse is not going to be 4 beating. So we are going to bring our hip a couple of exercise that you can do to run your horse really soft enough in its hip. I would just do some turns on the forehand. Just kind of hold your horse square on its reins. Let your heel or you spur back by the horse haunches and get your horse to turn his haunch around. So that way you can see that your horse is in a slight crescent form with its hip into its circle. So it is going to be prepare to properly step into the lop the right way. You also want to make sure that your sitting nice and square. Your shoulders are nice and square and you can pick up a little bit if you have to. To get a little bit of collection. Those are some tips and techniques you can use to properly prepare your horse to go into the lope correctly.

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