Extreme collection - backwards travelling canter

I saw a horse that was worriedly trying to keep his legs in the right order - damn good horse but I cannot help but think it is horrid
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OK you changed the link LOL!

Umm I think that was horrible TBH!

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For some reason I mixed the links up
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It looked weird to me to start with but then watched it again and again and it's quite incredible! I mean, the horse actually stayed in an almost unchanged (apart from one stride) rhythm throughout and looks incredibly springy in those backward steps.
 
I've seen it done much better. I have to say, it is definitely my least favourite of the haute ecole movements
 
Im also a 'no no' person on this one too. I know it must be very difficult to do and what a grand for horse for trying ..... but I just dont like it!!!
 
i've seen it, there's a link to a horse doing it easily and relaxed on this month's Horses For Life.
i think it's a case, like a lot of haute ecole movements, of whether the horse has a natural aptitude for that particular thing. that's what i love about the Spanish Riding School - the stallions doing the most difficult movements have been trained in them because they offered them... they had a natural aptitude. they haven't tried to make every horse do every difficult movement.
if a horse finds this fairly easy, why not?
fwiw i had a hunter mare who had a great piaffe (when she wanted to, not when i wanted it!), an eventer who could happily canter on the spot, changing legs every stride (i have no idea what at all to call that, is it "caracoling" ?), her daughter has a very natural levade, and a big gelding who has always found changes to be ridiculously easy. none of them would have made a Grand Prix horse, obviously, but i'm just saying that if the horse finds something like that easy, for example, it isn't a horrible thing to watch. hope that makes sense!
 
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I saw a horse that was worriedly trying to keep his legs in the right order - damn good horse but I cannot help but think it is horrid
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thats what i saw too.
 
it might only be in the members section, have a look at horsesforlife.com, if you register (free) you can watch quite a few of the vids, some of which are amazing. it's a very good online classical dressage magazine.
 
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