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This graph is the way I do it. But you can go to the other side first if you want. 1 left turn 2 right.

What I adjusted on my turn is: see how the approach to the first barrel is at an angle, well the horses body position is still straight at the back of the barrel, he will only have to bend around for abut a 1/4 of the turn. That's what I have always done. But on the second barrel I WAS having the horses body postion straight, parallel with it, which meant he had to bend alllll the way around to make the turn, they can't do that when you go faster, but now I have found if I move the horse over just a bit, then just a ways out for the 2nd I can angle him into the turn so that his body portion is still straight at the back of the barrel and he only has to bend 1/4 of the way. Works like a charm.

Make sense?

Becky