Nancy Ramsey The best cure for this problem is time and consistency. You can try a few different approaches. One I like is to put the horse in a halter, then put my lariet rope on the saddle horn and drop enough slack that the rope almost reaches the ground. Then I swing the rope around jump rope style. She will spook at first, but just keep going slow until she relaxes. When she does, stop swinging the rope and back away. wait until she licks and chews then start again. Do this on both sides and if you're like me, the left side will be very cumbersome. Just swing slowly and stand off at an angle so you don't hit her in the head with the rope. Eventually, you want to work up to where you can swing the rope gently and throw it over her head to the other side and then back. Let me know when she will accept this far and we'll go the next step. Good luck! 🙂
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Hunter Green sorry for the late response! I do like to teach my horses to stop straight once I have their attention pretty good. The reason is that I want to scaffold up to what I'll be expecting from the saddle. My logic is that if I teach them to turn in the stop from the ground, they'll turn in the stop from the saddle. Hope this helps! Richard