Upper-Level Schooling with a Quarter Horse Part 1
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Adrienne helps a rider on a Quarter Horse. She says that when some of the quality of the canter or walk is lost, it because the horse got long and flat. She suggests warming up by doing canter/walk transitions to work on getting the horse more compact like a square rather than long like a rectangle.
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