is this a natural or an artificial aid?

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Well, it's going to sound like bragging, but the other morning I got the most amazing passage from my friend's big warmblood-x mare.
Generous creature 'offered' me a capriole or two for good measure.

Now all I want to know is - is a herd of cows stalking you on the other side of the fence, a natural or an artificial aid? :D

Experts of HHO, I bow to your judgement...
 
I've actually heard that this is a method used by ALL the top dressage riders. They replace the first row of the crowd with cows (which is then edited out of the filmed version for TV obviously) to get a fancy passage so I would say natural ;)

The extended trots and canters are created by someone waving a plastic bag behind them as well did you know!
 
I got a beautiful passage when a newspaper attacked us in the wind. Sorry, "it wasn't in the wind, it was actually coming to get us"

Wonder which that is too?!
 
Cows work well, as do bags... or invest in a hobby horse that makes a galloping and neighing noise when you press its ear. There's not a move in dressage my boy can't do when he hears it :p
 
I'd say...natural ! Lol

For another example of natural aids, a blade of grass laying the wrong way on the verge is enough to initiate snorting and high stepping banana walk from my Welsh D mare..
 
I was trotting round the arena, waiting for the judge to sound her horn for me to start my test, thinking that the horse was going ok but was a little flat and we needed more oomph.

Cue horses turned out in nearby field breaking through into the field adjacent to where the dressage was held and having a wild hooley for several minutes. I got the extra oomph that I had craved, plus a bit more, and horse did one of his best ever tests.
 
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