Reining
Sharpen your circles, spins, and sliding stops with Reining on Ride TV—your go-to playlist for mastering smooth maneuvers and precise patterns. This expert-crafted collection tackles everything from mental prep to the mechanics of advanced reining. Train alongside top professionals like Bud Lyon, Crystal McNutt, Keith Ceddia, Peter DeFreitas, and Ryan Rushing, as they break down:
- Grooming the mindset for peak performance in Mentally Preparing for Your Ride
- Perfecting flying lead changes and hip control in tight spins
- Teaching young prospects foundational moves like reverse arcs, lead changes (both directions), and proper pivot foot planting
- Nailing sliding-stop fundamentals with rundown checkpoints and circle steering drills
- Recovery strategies to keep your horse mentally and physically fine-tuned
Whether you’re building a futurity-ready filly or tuning your reiner for the arena, Reining on Ride TV equips you with the drills, breakdowns, and know-how to ride sharper and ride smarter. Smooth circles. Clean spins. A reining ride done right—only on Ride TV.
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Mentally Preparing For Your Ride
Crystal McNutt offers some advice on how to mentally prepare yourself for your ride.
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Schooling Flying Lead Changes
These flying lead change drills will keep your horse from anticipating the flying lead change and focusing more on body control.
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Reining Warm-Up
Crystal McNutt goes through her daily warm up she does with her reining horses to help evaluate what she's going to work on each day.
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Fencing a Horse
Bud Lyon explains and demonstrates fencing on a 3-year-old prospect. He explains how to properly fence a horse, what the benefits are, and why he uses it in his training program.
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Riding Fundamentals: Reverse Arc at Trot
Bud Lyon explains how to use the reverse arc in your warm-up at the trot.
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Riding Fundamentals: Hip Control
Bud Lyon tests hip control by using leg pressure. He talks about how to isolate the hip to move the horse's hip and stay soft.
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Keep Your Horse Mentally Happy
If you want your horse to have a long and happy career in the show pen, you need to make sure you're giving your horse time to mentally and physically recover from an event. Ryan Rushing goes over what he likes to do to get a horse prepared for a large event, and then how he lets them recover aft...
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Riding Fundamentals: Reverse Arc
Bud Lyon demonstrates how to complete a reverse arc and how it can help your horse.
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Ranch Riding Horse VS. Reining Horse
Learn from Bud Lyon what to look for in a ranch riding prospect versus a reining prospect.
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Dropping Shoulder in a Circle
Bud Lyon gives his favorite exercises to help a horse from dropping his shoulder in a circle.
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Performance Horse Prospects
What does Bud Lyon look for in a performance horse prospect? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
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Dropping Shoulder in a Spin
Does your horse drop its shoulder in the spin? Bud Lyon explains how to keep your horse's shoulder up in the reining pattern.
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Green Horse: Counter Canter
Bud Lyon demonstrates how to cue for the counter canter on a green 2-year-old and explains why the counter canter can be beneficial to the horse's training.
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Plant the Pivot Foot
A belly turn won't get you the points you want. Bud Lyon offers advice for helping your horse plant his pivot foot.
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Green Horse: Turnaround
Bud Lyon continues his green horse series by teaching the turnaround to a 2-year-old reining prospect.
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Young Horse Warm-Up Exercises Part 1
Bud Lyon takes us through his checklist for a 3-year-old reining horse prospect.
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Green Horse Right-to-Left Lead Change
Forward motion. Lateral movement. Elevation. These three things are Bud Lyon's key components to a successful flying lead change. In this video, Bud schools a young horse to help him get a successful right-to-left lead change.
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Body Control During a Flying Lead Change
Before you attempt a flying lead change, you need to make sure that you have total control of your horse's body. NRHA Professional Keith Ceddia shows you how he gains control in his horse's body before asking for a flying lead change.
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2-Year-Old Reining Prospect Warm Up
NRHA professional Peter DeFreitas discusses the warm-up routine he uses for young reining prospects. He notes a few specific exercises he starts with and how the horse should feel before he moves on to more advanced work.
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Intro to Reining: Identifying Problems in the Rundown
Keith Ceddia has another horse and rider go through the checkpoints of the rundown to identify what problems they're running into and how they can fix them.
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Intro to Reining: Rundown Drill
This dog-bone drill is going to help your horse stay honest in the rundowns and have a better sliding stop.
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Intro to Reining: Large, Fast Circle Steering Drill
Improve your steering in your large, fast circles with this steering drill from professional Keith Ceddia.
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Intro to Reining: Small Circle Steering Drill
Keith Ceddia goes over his cassette-tape drill and how it will help improve guiding in the small, slow circles.
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Intro to Reining: Three Checkpoints to a Good Stop
There are three checkpoints you should check off when practicing your sliding stops at home. Keith Ceddia goes over every part of the rundown and stop and what you need to do during each checkpoint.