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7 Once you can stop and start with ease, begin practicing turns. To turn the horse, use the lariat like neck-reining, pushing the side of the ring against his neck to move him away from that pressure.

8 When your horse is responding reliably to the use of the lariat, remove your bridle and continue to ride the same patterns and turns as above (fig. 1.14 B).1.14 B: Most horses catch on very quickly, but neck rope riding can be frustrating initially if the horse is accustomed to a bridle. Riders often experience pleasant surprises riding with the lariat. Among them: independent use of their seat, light and effective communication, and a different attitude or approach to work from their horse.

Obviously, you can be as creative as you wish as your aptitude with the lariat increases. For most therapeutic purposes, though, it is enough to practice turning and stop-start-stop transitions with the neck ring.

My mother once kept a skinny paperback dressage book on her shelf written by a European trainer with a long name. It was titled Free, Forward, and Straight. I recall looking at its crumbly cover and wondering how the author possibly felt the need to write an entire book about those three words. If I only knew! All these years later, having trained horses for most of them, I can appreciate just how challenging it is to create movement that is unrestricted, ground-covering, and symmetrical.