Hi, I'm new here. I hope I can type Chinese but my computer does not let me. I'm in the US. I've been with horses for ~8 years and I have a 4-years old Thoroughbred that I train by myself for eventing. Feel free to ask me questions if the language is not clear enough for you. I've some experience in the "correct lead", or "right lead". I assume you know some basic ideas of "half-halt". The easiest way to do it is: 1. to "trot" in the circle. 2. When the horse is balanced and in steady rhythm, do the "connecting half-halt", meaning you momentarily ask the horse to go forward with your legs while your hands gently ask the horse not to burst into faster pace. 3. Applying the "connecting half-halt" for 3 sec. At the moment you sit down the trot, open up your inside seat bone, driving the horse from your ouside seat bone, also give it a little touch with your outside leg (you can swing behind). The horse will very likely go into canter with the correct lead. The reason why this works: 1. The horse in nature enviroment always picks up the correct lead if it traveling in a circle, meaning it always pick up the inner front leg as the lead. 2. The key point is to have your horse balanced. The "connecting half-halt" is to tell your horse that "Horse, I'll ask you to do something 3 sec later". So the horse, with proper training, will start to get ready for the change. 3. The reason why you do on your seat bone is we want our weight to shift away from the horse's inside front leg, which is the leg of the correct lead, while applying the weight on to the horse's outside front leg. With your weight shifted to the ouside, your horse feels much lighter in the inside. At this moment we signal him the "canter" command, so the horse can very easily pick up the leg that does not have weight on. Hope this helps. I'm very excited to find this site. As a Chinese away from homeland, I hardly have people with the same culture talking about horsemanship. I wish I can find more like-minded people here. Regards, HP |