Over-canted at the Lope - BUSTED

Video shot at a Spring 2009 AQHA Show in the Pacific NW. Most of the exhibitors are trainers with the exception of two people in each class.

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• aqha
• overcanting
• overcanted
• over-cant
• over-canted
• over-canting
• lope
• western pleasure
• quarter horse

[MollyGrue1]

goodness, this looks to me like a bunch of limping horses, sorry, but...

[Nicole7Queshua]

If it had been one horse, or even two or three in the group, I'd have said, "Holy cow! That horse has been REALLY badly trained!" As it were, it took me awhile to figure out that, no, the judge had NOT asked riders to do haunches-in around the arena, and that pretty much ALL the horses in this class are crab-loping around. Pathetic.

[patd10123]

I've shown western pleasure and I will never understand why it has to be so slow. the AQHA rulebook even says that a jog should be ground-covering, and the same with the lope. -_-

[CluTooRoni]

ive shown hunter jumpers & in western pleasure i trained w stock trainers hip in is important for TRAINING purposes help improve drive etc.a SLIGHT cant doesnt bother me in the initial lope departure.people who havent had any western pleasure experience looking from the outside in really wouldnt understand.i do a lot of wp but my horse moves naturally he still has a 2 beat jog a 3 beat lope he travels straight its the fact that outsiders see incorrect wp riding and assume we all ride that way

[poncho6682]

horses, dogs and even cats naturally travel with hips to one side when loping or cantering in the case of the hunter under saddle horses. some who are not familiar wih other breeds may find that the way qh's move is poor or cruel but they are viewing it from the outside. that is not to say that some dont move poorly or incorrectly, but aqha is trying to curb this type of behavior. some may see arabs or saddlebreds and say their way of moving and training is bad for the horse.its just different

[EveryonesQT]

Why do people still do this??? Its so ugly. I never saw the point. If your horse can't lope slow in a strait line, then as a rider you need to learn more about training horses right. :/

[gcoxalaska]

Hip Control....

youtube.com/watch?v=16M_FpXaEh­4&feature=related

[4x4Girl14]

@suziekabluzie I wholeheartedly agree, this is painful to watch. I only do WP at local shows, and when I do hunt seat at the breed shows it's only Arab shows. ;)

[IIIBarsV]

@JFRollison90 Canting is a straightness problem and often done on purpose as a means to make the horse "appear" to be more deep-hocked than they actually are, as well as a way to slow them down (training short cut). There is nothing correct about it and excessive canting will (or should) be penalized. Properly trained western pleasure horses can lope that slow and still stay on a straight line. However, canting is in the same epidemic as the jerk-n-spur method... widespread issue.

[suziekabluzie]

This is why I quit showing breed shows when this started. A true lope is done with a horse moving straight, not on an angle.

These are "peanut rollers".

[JFRollison90]

Molly..if you don't show quarter horses than i see where it may get confusing..also the view is from the horses ass ends...when i started showing quarter horses i used to think the same thing. But in the class we want horses to be deept hocked and really reach underneath themselves to show drive.

and they have their hip cocked to the inside because it shows how well they are driving. some are more cocked in than others which drives me nuts!!!! just a little doesnt bother me lol

[ArablvrXoXo]

i think the new fad is to try and get all the gaits to be the exact same speed.