Intermediaire II/Grand Prix

Intermediaire II/Grand Prix

Intermediaire II/Grand Prix

Intermediaire II/Grand Prix

Intermediaire II/Grand Prix

Intermediaire II/Grand Prix

ESDCTA Forum, Young Horse, Janet Foy & Steffen Peters

Canter Pirouette at the GP Level with Arthur Kottas

This intermediate combination is working on some Grand Prix.  The rider mostly wants help managing her large horse.  Adelinde works on getting a bit more quickness from the hind legs to keep the rhythm.

This intermediate combination is working on some Grand Prix.  The rider mostly wants help managing her large horse.  Adelinde works on getting a bit more quickness from the hind legs to keep the rhythm.

This intermediate combination is working on some Grand Prix.  The rider mostly wants help managing her large horse.  Adelinde works on getting a bit more quickness from the hind legs to keep the rhythm.

Laurens now goes to the piaffe and passage Ulysees has struggled with the piaffe and it is still in development He begins by making sure he is quick off his leg aids and is light in the front He makes sure he finds the rhythm that is comfortable for the horse and works on the basics when he becom...

After the warm up in part one, Ms. Froment takes a walk break, but uses this time to improve his already great walk. She begins the canter work by closing up the circle to ask for the depart, and then works on the activity of his canter. She emphasizes a giving hand and consistently rewarding h...

They begin with riding the serpentine, more as an S figure to increase the strength in the inside hind leg. If the mare moves off the bit in the figure, Mr. Hess has her ride a circle during the serpentine. He asks that she stretch down enabling her hind legs to move more. They try for this wi...

Dorothee Schneider works with this rider to make sure that the horse”a 15-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding”is listening and concentrating.œWe all know the feeling when the horse isnt listening, so we need to give him the time, she said. Once he was concentrating, they started working on the uppe...

Dorothee points out that without pressure from the rider, the horse is able to swing over his back and hold the rhythm and carry the weight in the hind leg.œThis allows you to then ride the more difficult things”piaffe and passage, she said.œThis horse is working from the hind leg to the bit”it a...

Part 2 Boyd Martin schools two very different horse and rider combinations putting several fences together The green Thoroughbred relaxes with each go and becomes more consistent with a calmer approach and less scrambling The second horse shows what a champion he is with smooth rounds with lovely...

Part 1: Boyd Martin schools two very different horse-and-rider combinations. The first rider repeats an oxer several times to help the green Thoroughbred settle and not scoot away from the landing. The second, Novice-level rider is challenged by the height, so they work on relaxing and thinking o...

Joyce guides the rider through asking the gelding to walk slower using her weight aids while keeping the walk four beat.  The trick is to get an active hind leg without piaffe or passage! When they go to the trot she does ask for steps of passage, showing both a collected passage and more forward...

They return to the canter, making sure they can collect before going to the twos. Joyce helps them make the left and right changes evenly.  She has them do transitions within the canter on the long diagonal and emphasizes being quicker in the ones.  After being successful at 15 ones, they prepare...

GP Day 2 Session 2, test ridden & scored, movements schooled with Axel Steiner

GP Day 2 Session 2, test ridden & scored, movements schooled with Axel Steiner