Thank you, the way you guys have specified is the way I hold the reins. I know puppy-paw, turned out and turned in hands can interfere with the signals and things like that.
I am still unsure of Corky's color, and yes, she is sort of the color of the Toric stallion somebody put up. Except her mane is paler, not firery orange but a tan, pale yellow-sand color with black-brown at the roots, or I suppose it looks like a black mane that is really reddish brown outside.