Carl Hester at Equitana 2013 Part 1

so I know that you probably would love to try for half an hour Linda but you can forget it the fun's over it's cancer how we get the cancer so what I want to do is see if how short first of all we can make his cancer because to improve his cancer so it is not countering on the forehand all the time first of all we have to get him sitting and then we have to ride him forward into a more upper frame so first of all let's just see you know through your half holes and we'll talk about that a minute you know how can you actually make the cancer small enough that you know if you can almost think about some very wet steps so when you and now forward again so what I'm looking for here is Linda to bring him back into the lights and pirouette each steps so where he starts sitting now if you take a photograph of a horse in a canter pirouette right you know we all tend to look at the top and the front but actually if you look now down to the inside hind leg the fat knob is where the horse has to sink yeah a horse that really sit sinks there that's where they become elastic that's where you have to build up the strength that they become soft enough if you do it too quickly yeah that's when you can cause injury or you can you know the horse just remains tight now it's interesting because here as you get shorter he's not relaxed short yet so as he gets shorter if we know he always pushes off his left toe and he doesn't blend down forward again a medium steps no rather so now give the right give the rave give the rain is that you're giving in England I always know that Scottish because we know it's not if you like that's like a Scotland's get this is yes an English give ok I'm back again smaller so why do I tell her to give because I really good she can get I want to know that she could do that alright because it's telling all of us there Melinda we can see elegant rider good position and should be well capable of having the horse more on her seeds and less on her hands and can you see when you collect it Linda and then you ride forward you are allowed to do that in a slightly shoulder for position alright so that if he made him go a little bit sideways it'll help his front legs come up I mean don't riding forward for too long that he starts to get down again so bring him back pink pirouette steps release the hand and forward again so the idea is that you get him uphill when he's collected and instead of doing this and giving everything away when you ride forward keep riding him uphill all right and up forward forward if you feel the canter gets fast then you have to immediately come back to the sitting steps in here small small and this at this point she mustn't override I would rather see her let the horse make a mistake by the dropping you or direct that you can correct him other than overriding alright you don't because if you're going to ride hard now at this stage you're going to be left with a hell of a lot of sweating at Grand Prix so this stage we have to teach him on his own we press the cancel button he has to learn to stay ahead good and back again I've said I don't like it when you go forward for more than like 30 meters because he'll end lands on the floor hand again and forward again now also let's bear in mind when you've seen him here this is hard work you know the horse is already like working a lot harder to carry his weight good and back again now you need to make the right side of the horse straight because we're having too much on the curve on your left rein can you do a nice giver getting on the inside not that little give and back again and now give the rain again that's right that's it good why don't you also trial in a circle down there and let's try a center line and do a leg yielding canter now leg yielding cancer is not something that you see in a dressage test but it is a useful exercise for a horse that needs to improve its canter again if you can do it with a slightly trailing hind leg more shoulders up to the right along the line more shoulders more shoulders that's it and pushing sideways a little bit to bring him more other so can you see that if you go in a straight line what happens is he then goes a little bit on that stiff hind leg and as we push him sideways of course he can't stay still it has to take us inside by the console again make your leg yield over to the side right side straight not by bending the neck so much and now circle here again in the middle and now let's see you make a transition to walk so elementary level so elementary level you have to do Cancer Walk cancer now did you see that transition not you you felt it so how I would describe that transition is I would describe it as obedient but not sitting so if you are a competitor and you want to get you know scores of 70% or above you have to be able to show the judge that there was it not only obedient but it's sitting you should not get more than a seven if the horse is not sitting it has to show that he sits and steps forward in a transition again canter so we want obedience but what happens is you have to have an even lighter in your hand and now who steps for let him step forward and counter again so look for the upward transition and again this straight on the right side they give on the left and now start short short short and that was obedient no sitting so you know it's still something need to do these a lot of these transitions sure sure yeah all right don't make him rounder at the last moment because that helps him pull down better and canter again and why are these transition is so important because the canter walk answer of course is really the start of thinking about flying changes in the future you know that he learns to do these short steps canter pirouettes flying changes and go to the right in fact let's in fact come back here you need to do one more to the left and then I want to let him have a stretch before we do invite Kendall they just did one more on the left I know they were getting difficult but you can't go to the other side just yet just trying until the feeling is really there and why am I making Linda do it because it's called riding forward in the Dan worth well done it's hard you can see that he almost feels like he can't fight it down yet one more

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Length: 7min 23sec (443 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 28 2019