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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThere is so much atmosphere, just try to give her a nice time and build her confidence, let her look, pat her on the neck. You don\u2019t have to keep her round and on the bit, and we don\u2019t stretch young horses in this sort of situation, it\u2019s not safe \u2013 keep the contact until they relax.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t do too much with young horses,\u201d Charlotte stressed, \u201cI do 20 minutes with most four year olds. Walk, trot, canter, on the bit, straight. Educate them in a really easy way, relaxed trot, easy canter, work on steering and control, and move on from there.<\/p>\n With a bigger horse, like this one, I\u2019d do less, because they wear out quicker.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Romance\u00a0has a little spook. Charlotte is laughing: \u201cThat\u2019s the fun of a four-year-old, the excitement of possibly being bucked off. She\u2019s afraid, you\u2019ve got to give her confidence, you relax and let her relax. Drop your whip, pat her, she is starting to relax and getting more swing.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWith a four-year-old, hundreds and thousands of transitions all through the session. Transitions get them listening, make them stronger. Look up you\u2019ll be able to ride her in a straight line more easily\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n But not just any transition. Forward, round, and into the transition. Next the trot \/ canter transition: And the transition down: \u201cAnother sloppy transition, not making the horse more round, not making it more forward, just pull on the rein. Round and forward to trot, that\u2019s a transition. No more sloppy disgusting transitions, don\u2019t be a lazy rider.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLilah should spend most of her time doing basic transitions, until she can go up, down, without the horse\u2019s neck coming up, she must be strict with herself. Was that good enough? No. Do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I first saw Lilah two days ago, the mare trotted at snail\u2019s pace, she would have had time faults in a test. When she told me the horse was \u2018hot\u2019 I almost fell over. She is much better today but it is true, when people ride young horses, all most of them want to do is go slow. You have to ride them forward and that is actually easier than holding them back.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat did you think of that transition?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHer head came up.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019ve got to think of dropping her neck down, forward with the legs, stretch down, round, keep round, and forwards to trot. Yes! We\u2019ve made it.\u201d<\/p>\n And now, Romance was invited to stretch:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Breeding a dressage horse this season? Go to<\/strong><\/em> www.ihb.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThat was a really bad transition from you. Now it\u2019s a case of pat the horse, slap the rider. Her job is to educate the horse, and she just rode it like an Advanced horse. If we see this horse in the future with bad transitions, blame Lilah.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThat\u2019s a showjumping transition, rising trot to canter, that\u2019s cheating!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u201cDid you do anything? No. You must be strict and ride every transition. Make the transition forward to walk, don\u2019t fall in a heap, don\u2019t shorten the reins you cheat!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cNow you can see she wants to stretch. This is why we don\u2019t worry about stretching at first \u2013 after ten or fifteen minutes, they are going to want to stretch\u2026\u201d<\/h1>\n
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