We should always have these questions in mind when we work with our horse: how can I help my horse to think? how can I let it find out what I want? That is the reason why you may have read a few times in these pages that you should leave time to your horse to think and to give you the good response.

Untracking the hindquarters

This drill is a practical exercise that is directly related to Untracking the hindquarters. Based on the excellent work of Buck Brannaman, there are four methods to bring a horse to untrack the hind legs. The first three are described in another video:

• Lateral flexion + leg cue;
• Soft-Feel + leg cue;
• Leg only.

Time to think

I put the fourth aside as I think it is more designed to teach a horse to think than to move its hind end. The principle is quite simple: get the lateral flexion and… wait! Wait until the horse tries something and eventually finds out that you want it to cross its hind legs.