As the next pair begins, Scott Hassler asks the rider to have the mare walk without hitting the contact on the reins. They show a great energetic working trot as they warm up. Scott talks about how the riders of young horses need to be light, but not just on the horse. In the right trot she shows less balance than in the left trot. Scott asks to see the canter in both directions before starting the training. He reviews with the rider what she does in her own training with the mare, and suggests that they need to work on her right side getting more fluid and coordinated rather than change her tempo. He covers how he wants to train the horse to go in a straight line and gives her a great exercise as she goes down the long side.
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Scott and Ingo Pape take questions from the auditors including the timing of when to start lateral work, and the necessity of the horse accepting the leg. The second question concerns the introduction of the flying changes. Scott talks about the relationship between teaching them counter canter...
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Scott Hassler begins by explaining what the purpose of this clinic has been, and Willy Arts presents a horse that has done the Four Year Old Championships and is further along than the horses from earlier in the day. Scott offers great advice for whether riders should do the Young Horse classes ...
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Another question is how they picked the horses to be in the clinic, and Scott explains that they were looking for a variety of horses. They are also asked if only German and Dutch Warmbloods were allowed into the clinic, and Scott strongly disagrees with this. Scott acknowledges all those invol...
