The Renvers HAUNCHES OUT
Mar 10, 2020
4 minutes
BY LAUREN SPRIESER
PHOTOS BY AMY K. DRAGOO
he shoulder-in’s fickle and elusive cousin, the renvers, positions the horse’s body in a similar way relative to the rail, but asks him to bend in the opposite direction. In a correctly ridden renvers, the horse’s shoulders move to the inside, off the rail, while the haunches continue to travel along the rail. Unlike the shoulderin, however, where the bend is toward the inside of the riding arena, the horse’s body bends toward the of the arena in the renvers, and his chest faces forward, at a right angle to the long side.
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