You want to bend your horses head to the middle of the ring. (Not to much). Also, you want to use your outside leg to push your horse into a canter. (Outside = the leg to the OUTSIDE of the ring.)
Dear Horse rider,
To get your horse into canter, in the corner of the ring you go into sitting trot and bring your inside leg back and kick (also helps if you kick with your outside leg so the horse...
To get a horse to canter, you go into sitting trot on a corner, move your outside leg back behind the girth and squeeze with both legs. do not lean forward as it encourages your horse to go faster...
cantering is a 3 beat ...first you have to feel 100% comforable with walking and trotting.to make your horse canter give him a big kick.keep kicking until it feels smoother and faster then a trot..if...