My horse has too much turn on the forehand what can I do?

A horse with too much turn on the forehand — one that pivots heavily on his front feet, swings his hindquarters around without engagement, or falls into a forehand-heavy rotation whenever he turns — is a horse whose balance and training have placed too much weight on his front end and not enough on his hindquarters. The turn on the forehand has a legitimate place in early training as a tool for teaching the horse to move away from the leg, but it quickly becomes a liability if overdone or if it becomes the horse's default response to any lateral aid. Stop drilling the turn on the forehand entirely for a period while you rebuild the lateral work from a different foundation. Replace it with exercises that require the hindquarters to carry and engage rather than swing freely around a stationary front end. The leg yield — where the horse moves forward and sideways simultaneously — is the single most useful corrective exercise because it directly contradicts the forehand pivot by requiring forward motion throughout. A horse cannot pivot on his forehand while moving forward, and the leg yield habit built consistently over weeks begins to replace the pivot habit with a more correct response to lateral leg pressure. The turn on the haunches is the specific corrective maneuver that addresses the problem directly by requiring the horse to keep his front feet moving while his inside hind foot becomes the pivot point. Teaching the horse to step around his inside hind rather than around his inside front requires a clear inside rein to direct the nose, an active inside leg to prevent the horse from stepping backward, an outside rein to control pace, and an outside leg to ask the hindquarters to step around. Collection work is the long-term answer. A horse that carries himself correctly — with his hindquarters engaged, his weight shifted slightly rearward, and his forehand light — does not have the weight distribution available to pivot heavily on the front end even if he wanted to. Check your own aids as part of the diagnosis — a rider who initiates turns primarily through the inside rein is inadvertently loading the inside foreleg and setting up the forehand pivot every time. Lead every lateral movement with your leg, follow with the rein as a secondary guide.