In this video, we bring you a rider working at Grand Prix with an 11-year-old Dutch gelding. Lars Petersen works with the pair and asks the rider to be mindful of not allowing the horse to collect too much. The horse tends to become quite tense and experts help the rider work through this. Ashley Holzer asks the rider to strengthen her core and seat more so that she can soften her hand and allow more comfort and security from the seat. They work on the half pass, the zig-zag, the preparation for canter pirouettes and the piaffe and passage.
Up Next in 2020 Adequan/USDF FEI-Level Trainers Conference
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2020 Adequan/USDF Trainers Conference...
In this video, U.S. Olympian Michelle Gibson rides a 9-year-old Swedish gelding. Ashley Holzer bounces training ideas back and forth with Michelle and discusses how a great warm-up is an art, talent and continual learning experience. Ashley challenges riders to warm-up both sides of the horse equ...
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In this video, Gary Rockwell starts the session by explaining that we need to think of collection as weight lifting...be smart about it and warm-up properly. The horse wants to be a little hollow to the left. Gary works to help the rider get the horse more equal in both reins. In the second half ...
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On Day 1, this rider and the 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding, Leopold of Shakespeare, currently showing at Third Level, start their work with Anne Gribbons and then receive input from the other experts. They first work on warming up the horse over his topline and discuss the importance of not going...
