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Reins
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guarantees a more balanced ride in any situation.
“Throwing a cross” or “taking a bridge” is one of the very first skills an aspiring jockey acquires. “It is the basic way you hold your reins,” explained licensed flat trainer Lenny Rera, formerly based at the Middleburg Training TVack. “From the cross, you can balance without fighting the horse. Too, the horse is then “pulling on himself” rather than exhausting you and putting you off balance.”
Rera described how to take the standard crossed rein position: Hold the right rein in the right hand, the left rein in the left, like normal. “Turn your thumbs towards each other. Now, take the right rein on top of the left rein, holding both reins in the left hand, with just the right one in the right hand.
“Now, stand in your two-point position,” Rera said. “Press the “bight’ of reins (the short section of rein between the two thumbs) down onto the horse’s neck. Press your knuckles into the neck, just enough to balance yourself if the horse isn’t pulling, harder and deeper into the neck if the horse is taking a hold.”
This way, he explained, the horse literally levers his pull against his own neck; rubber reins, which lock into each other, work best when taking a cross, but laced reins can work
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