Standing directly in front of your horse to back will disqualify you on most judges cards. This is a dangerous position to put yourself in, IF your horse spooks you could be run over, or if your horse rears you could be pummelled.
Below our exhibitor is in a much better position safety wise, she's slightly in front of her horse so that she can see where to guide her horse and she's off to the side so if something should spook her horse she can quickly move off to the right.
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Paula,
Thanks for addressing this issue. I suspect I have done this before!
In a future post, could you please explain how close you should be to your horse when backing him? I ask because I notice that some exhibitors seem to stand a distance from the horse, which looks nice, while others seem to really crowd the horse a bit. This of course affects arm position as well: should the right arm wind up pointing in the direction the horse is to go, or sort of crossed across your chest? Thanks!
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