{"id":57397,"date":"2021-02-13T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=57397"},"modified":"2024-07-05T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T01:39:56","slug":"ingrid-klimke-on-developing-the-paces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/02\/ingrid-klimke-on-developing-the-paces\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingrid Klimke on developing the paces"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Chris Hector asked Ingrid Klimke:\u00a0<em>With a young horse, which is more important to have, a good natural canter, or a flash trot?<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FranziskusSettle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57398\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FranziskusSettle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FranziskusSettle.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FranziskusSettle-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThe canter and the walk are both gaits you can\u2019t improve by good riding, you can improve them a bit, but you are not going to all-of-a-sudden create a spectacular walk, if the walk is not by nature so good, and it is the same with the canter.<\/h3>\n<p>But the trot, maybe you can\u2019t get a normal trot really expressive, but you can get rhythm and you can always improve it. The more they learn to sit on the hocks, the more strength they get, the more they come into self balance and they build strong hind leg and back muscles, through lots of transitions, half steps in and out, then you can really improve the trot a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1aaDamonsDiveneCanterExample.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1aaDamonsDiveneCanterExample.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1aaDamonsDiveneCanterExample-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/1aaDamonsDiveneCanterExample-370x300.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Ingrid and Damons Divene as a young horse &#8211; the pastern angle of the inside hind leg shows where she is carrying the most weight&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hindlegs must be energetic under the centre of gravity, that means the hindquarters get much more muscle, the back gets so much stronger, and the horse really shows himself. The horse has to have energy from behind, the motor is the hindlegs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IngridCanter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IngridCanter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IngridCanter.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IngridCanter-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IngridCanter-349x300.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Ingrid and her eventer, Butts Abraxxas, a Thoroughbred with a good natural canter&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TrotSAachen08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TrotSAachen08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TrotSAachen08.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TrotSAachen08-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TrotSAachen08-395x300.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>And the trot Ingrid was able to develop<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2017\/10\/brilliant-basics-with-ingrid-klimke-the-young-horse\/\">https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2017\/10\/brilliant-basics-with-ingrid-klimke-the-young-horse\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Want to breed your own &#8216;F&#8217; line star in Australia? You can.<\/h3>\n<h3>Go to www.ihb.com.au &#8211; check out the top European stallions that are available&#8230;<\/h3>\n<h3>Like the great Fidertanz &#8211; sire of Ingrid Klimke&#8217;s Franziskus<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FidertanzFEAT.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FidertanzFEAT.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/FidertanzFEAT-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hector asked Ingrid Klimke:\u00a0With a young horse, which is more important to have, a good natural canter, or a flash trot? \u201cThe canter and the walk are both gaits you can\u2019t improve by good riding, you can improve them a bit, but you are not going to all-of-a-sudden create a spectacular walk, if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,4],"tags":[2142,90,2143],"class_list":["post-57397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","tag-developing-strength","tag-ingrid-klimke","tag-walk-and-canter"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68079,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397\/revisions\/68079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}