Hilda Gurney rides one of her four year olds , and as they warm up she explains how she warms up a youngster. Her two goals of the warm up are to warm the horse up physically and to get them responsive to the aids. She keeps him round and moving forward, and works on changing the bend through the serpentine. She works on his shying past a wet spot in the arena. As she puts him together they do the leg yield, concentrate on the corners and do a leg yield to shoulder in to give him the idea of crossing his legs.
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Hilda Gurney, Four-Year-Old - Part 2
Hilda teaches all her young horse to leg yield in the canter, both to and from the rail. When she adds the medium canter she first does it on a circle. He will be shown at First Level and in the Young Horse test, so she also works on the counter canter with am emphasis on keeping the balance. S...
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Basic leg yield training
Test preparation and instruction on components within second level tests can be found here. Charlotte is focused on getting the horse moving correctly and listening to the inside leg, moving forward to work on the turn on the haunches, the lateral work, counter canter and simple changes. Sample v...
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Natalie Lamping judging USEF 4 yr. ol...
Natalie Lamping judging USEF 4 yr. old test
