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Discussion on Reining Spin Queue
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Qh4me
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Posted on Monday, Jul 11, 2005 - 3:52 pm:
Hi, I am posting this for a friend of mine. She bought a reining horse about a year ago. She always rode english but decided to try team penning one day, she fell in love with it and bought herself a retired reining horse. She has been doing great team penning, and won her first buckle the past weekend.
She has been playing with the reining a bit on her own, but doesn't know the queue for a spin.
I thought I would post here to see if someone could help her out. She has been using the queue for a pivot she used in her english times, without much success! 
Shawna
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mleeb
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Posted on Friday, Feb 23, 2007 - 8:10 pm:
Well this answer comes a long time after your post, and maybe it won't even be of a lot of help, but here goes.
I'm not a reiner, but I have started team penning, and I do ride a well broke pro-trained reining horse who can sit and spin until I puke. It's a great feeling! His cue, from a standstill, is simply to lay the outside rein on his neck, and gently touch him with my outside leg at the same time. He starts to spin, and I remove my leg. He will spin as long as the rein stays on his neck, and if I kiss to him while he is doing it, he will go faster and faster. When I want him to stop, I take the rein off and my inside leg doesn't technically bump him, but it's like I stop spinning and let him spin into it. A quiet whoa at the same time as the signals, and he's a statue again. If he's a little sticky at the start, a kiss and a bump with the outside leg will get him going, but then the leg comes off. A trainer once told me that if you have to keep your leg on to keep him moving, you're nagging and your horse isn't broke. It's just like signaling to walk, once he starts walking, you don't keep on going with the leg aid telling him to KEEP walking, right?
Also, I have a 3 yo that a different trainer was working with for me this past fall. She rides a lot of English and dressage, but my horse is going western. She taught him to pivot on the fore and hind quarters and the signals are nearly the same. To pivot on the hind, it's as above, but remember that if the neck overbends, your horse HAS to move his hindquarters so he doesn't fall over. Too much bend will give you what you DON'T want. To pivot on the fore, the neck is held still, no bend at all, and your legs signal the hindquarter to move around the front. Teach it one step at a time, with a wall or fence in front of the horse (or behind for practicing turn on hindquarters) to help prevent forward motion, and it will all go a lot better. Once he can do it one step at a time, only ask for 180 degrees and then walk off. When he's really smooth at that, you can work on adding the other 180 degrees.
Have fun.
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