Chris Hector asked Hubertus Schmidt:
What is the secret to being able to have your horse balanced, riding from behind and not just pulling the head and neck in?
“I don’t think it is a secret. Years ago, you and I discussed it, and then I was talking about my system, about the stretching in the warm ups. At the beginning, the horse should have a long neck, and be really going into the bit, and that I am able to always have steady contact with a willingness of the horse to go forward. They are a little down at the beginning when I do my warm up, it doesn’t matter if it is a four-year-old or a Grand Prix horse, the first ten minutes are the same.
Then when you go to collect, you try to keep them in exactly this position – in front of your leg so the horse is always willing to go forwards, and out.”
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