Part 5: Catherine wants the rider to pay more attention to keeping the horse's shoulders outside of the bend in half pass. They work on this by practicing the movements and aides in shoulder in. Catherine identifies that the horse goes flat in the half pass because he drops his shoulder. They work to fix this by having the rider lift his hands and let the horse express himself more.
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