That's what my husband does. DIL isn't riding him with spurs right now, although that may be next (hopefully before the baseball bat).
It sodesn't seem to be a matter of him not knowing, nor does he do this frequently. Just often enough to test her patience.
My daughters filly, had trouble going to the left. She tied her head around a few times and that seemed to do the trick. But...thinking about it....I think she told me she started using some inside leg too....hummmmm, I'l have to ask.
Becky
It;s funny how some little something can make such big changes. Sometimes, most of the time:), it's a rider doing/not doing something that is the problem.
I remember last summer my daughter was here practicing barrels on her filly. When we got some coaching years ago on barrels we were taught to have a cue word that you holler when you want the horse to start a turn. I still don't know why Jenny did this but with Rocky when she was first starting him, she hollered Whoa. Which in my opinion is a big no no. But it worked on him. But the night she was here practicing she was having problems at the turn because the filly kept stopping (imagine that:). It finally dawned on me (I had gotten so use to her cue word that it took awhile to put 2 and 2 togeather.
Well she made a run, had trouble, and ~bam~ it hit me. Jenny, by this time was loosing patience, it hadn't hit her yet. I said "Jenny, can I tell you something" LOL...she hollered back "What" very frustrated. I said softley, smiling to myself because I knew she was going to be humbled, "The horse is doing what your telling her too. You're hollering Whoa"
Poor Jenny, she just stood there for a minute, like in shock:)
It was pretty funny, but show how we can do things and not even realize it. Horse never stopped again making her turn when Jenny switched her cue word to Hey, which is what I holler.
Becky