Palindrome
Well-Known Member
Hello all,
I am looking for ideas of exercises for the canter depart for my just turned 4 years old. He is an ex racing trotter and so far we have been going full blast trot and asking for canter in a turn with my RI but I am looking for less death-of-wallesk ways of working on his canter depart. He had his first jumps yesterday and does a nice slow balanced canter after the jumps so one idea is perhaps to try asking him over the jump and then change it for a pole and then remove the pole. He did anticipate the exercises last time after a few tries so hoping this could help him figure out but wondering if there are perhaps other exercises to achieve that.
I am looking for ideas of exercises for the canter depart for my just turned 4 years old. He is an ex racing trotter and so far we have been going full blast trot and asking for canter in a turn with my RI but I am looking for less death-of-wallesk ways of working on his canter depart. He had his first jumps yesterday and does a nice slow balanced canter after the jumps so one idea is perhaps to try asking him over the jump and then change it for a pole and then remove the pole. He did anticipate the exercises last time after a few tries so hoping this could help him figure out but wondering if there are perhaps other exercises to achieve that.