12/18/2025
Training Tip Tuesday. Another fun exercise to help the horse with lateral movement specifically when learning the haunches in (travers). In this exercise, we ride a 10 or 20 meter circle (pictured) and alternate between shoulder in and haunches in. This helps the horse to develop lateral suppleness, as well as, his body awareness. Shoulder in should be approximately 30 degrees off the line of travel. Haunches in is around 35 degrees. This will alternate between the inside hind and the outside hind leg stepping under the body thus increase strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and collection to name a few.
