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Could you actually train a horse to perform a move like Piaffe, but it isn't Piaffe? For example, the horse may be struggling to perform a dressage Piaffe, but couldn't you (for trick sake) teach the horse to do a move which looks like Piaffe, but doesn't put so much strain on the body? Thanks!

"Dressage Moves"- I mean the moves such as Piaffe, Passage, Spanish Walk etc. and the lower down ones such as half-pass... Fitness, I just meant how fit would ANY horse have to be to perform Piaffe etc. What I mean is how "athlete" fit does it have to be? Goodness! I've got my head in a...

How old do you think a horse could perform dressage moves etc. for before having to stop? And how fit?

So (just clearing my novice head here!) can piaffe actually be damaging to the horse?

Hello! Does anyone know where I can get a leather head collar for a horse/pony under £10? Or are those ones rubbish and not worth buying? Thanks!

thanks all! You have been so helpful!!

Thought of an idea... Would giving a command to Piaffe set the horse of in Piaffe, and then you train the horse to continue until you use a clicker to say stop? What do other people think?

Hello all! I was wondering (it may not even exist!) if anyone knew if you could train a horse to Piaffe or Spanish walk etc. on one cue in the beginning, and it continues to perform the move, and then with one cue telling it to stop that move, before giving it one cue for the next move? Is...

Would it be OK for a 14yo pony to have a first pregnancy? Thanks!

Thanks! She has never had a known problem with her lungs, she is very good on the fast so I am assuming they are fine, same must apply for her heart...

Thanks! :D She is vetted regularly by the riding school, so she should be OK, shouldn't she? Thanks!

Great Pics!!!!!

I LOVE clydesdale to bits! They are sweet (OK, massive, but sweet!)

Hello Everyone! Thanks for all of your support and suggestions. (I'm NOT just saying this) I have never been deeply bothered about napping or bucking, I would preferably not wish to have a horse bucking me every two minutes, but Pippin has never bucked, in all the time I have spent riding...

I am 11, I read you grow out of 13.2hh when you are roughly 16, and when I outgrow her, my brother will ride her. I have had opinions, and people have seen Pippin and I ride together, we are called a team.