Catherine Haddad returns with this fascinating video on skills needed for a horse competing in the Developing Horse Prix St. Georges s division, featuring a seven year old mare. Catherine guides her rider in an exercise to activate her hind leg with half steps that allow her croup to go high at this stage in her training in preparation for piaffe and passage. They demonstrate how changing the position of the rider's leg can help the mare to step under more. They continue with the warm up in a working trot and when the mare drops onto her forehand, Catherine has the rider activate her back leg. They demonstrate riding the horse up to the bit. The next exercise is a turn onto the quarter line, then leg yield to half pass to leg yield to test if the mare is moving off her leg in the canter. They use the renvers position in the counter canter to control the hindquarters which sets her up for a clean flying change. Catherine asks her to keep the same flexion through the exercise.
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