Getting the Horse to Take You, Part 1
Boyd Martin
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18m
During this clinic, Nicholas asks upper-level event rider Jimmie Schramm to start long and low, allowing her horse to stretch and relax. They talk about the training/fitness schedule that Jimmie uses to prepare this horse for Eventing (similar to the schedule Olympic team members Phillip Dutton and Boyd Martin use) and Nicholas makes suggestions on how to incorporate more dressage work, particularly in the trot sets. They check on the canter“walk“canter transitions that they worked on the day before and find that he has retained the training.
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