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If you want your horse to take a better, deeper lateral step in any lateral exercise, engage your seat bone on the same side as you use your leg. For example, to better engage your horse's left hind leg in a left shoulder in or a spiral out on a left circle, you need to engage your left seat bone as you are closing your left leg.
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