This makes me feel really inadequate....

[Halfstep]

...but how cool!

Ingrid Klimke's 6 yr old daughter doing one tempo changes on her mum's 25 yr old GP horse:

http://www.cmetube.de/gretagrandprix

I was definitely born into the wrong family LOL.

 

[Stoxx]

bareback too

 

[Halfstep]

I thought she was sitting on one of those baby saddles? But perhaps its a bareback pad. Respect, respect, respect. I can't get the ones as straight as that even on a very experienced schoolmaster, with stirrups, in a dressage saddle, and I'm 25 years older than she is.

.

 

[TarrSteps]

I suspect she's riding with a training surcingle, with the hand holds and small thigh blocks. I think that's a pretty standard way of teaching youngsters in Germany.

Just shows good bloodlines are important in dressage.

 

[Worried1]

Love the fact he is all hairy and shaggy!!!!!

I want one

 

[mik]

goosebumps
was watching ahlerich on u tube yesterday, amazing how super loose and happy he was, not so tense as these days. made me feel so soppy.

 

[tigers_eye]

WOW! Plus I think it says quite a lot about their training and management that they have 25yo who is safe and supple enough to do that.

 

[kit279]

I believe it's standard practice for young children in Germany to learn to ride on extremely high level schoolmasters to give them the feel of what riding *should* feel like so that when they get on a younger and less experienced beastie they can still apply the correct aids. Obviously this only works when your riding schools are overflowing with ex-Grand Prix horses!

 

[Tempi]

i was definately born into the wrong family too!! lol

Amazing tho!

 

[Bananaman]

Fab! How lovely to be able to be taught to ride and feel like that BEFORE developing bad habits that take forever to get rid of.

 

[Leg_end]

That is amazing! Am also insanely jealous - imagine having the opportunity to ride something so well schooled when you were young... that will give such a solid foundation for later on in her career.

 

[wizoz]

Absolutely bless her cotton socks, how cute is that!?!

That'll be something for the media when she gets to the olympics in 20??whenever

 

[Governor]

Wow.

And *sob*. I now feel highly inadequate!

 

[teapot]

Awww man

And her sitting trot's not bad either.

Nice to see a dressage horse all fluffy too

 

[ajf]

I thinkg the biggest pony I had ridden at 6 on my own was 11.2hh.
Very inadequete

 

[kerilli]

bless her! bless the horse too, he looks as if he could do it with his eyes closed. i would love 5 minutes on a horse like that.

 

[_jetset_]

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Love the fact he is all hairy and shaggy!!!!!

I want one

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Me too!!!!!

Just think, when you have your little nipper you can do the same thing in 6 years time

 

[MissDeMeena]

Without wishing to rain on her parade, when i was 10 i was aloud to play with my instructors Adv. stallion (he was about 18 at the time).. I never got any lessons on him, i was just shut in the indoor school on my own with him and told not to come out again for 30/40mins..
So in my huge dressage wisdom, i know that if you swung your legs backwards and forwards the horse would do 1x changes.. i could only ask for about 4 or 5 at a time otherwise he would start to buck.. I could also only ask for walk to canter, as i couldn't make him canter from trot.. but i could get a cracking extended trot from him.. so that's all i'd do for 30 mins, flying changes and extended trot, because at that age i'd never heard of shoulder-in or half-pass etc. let alone know what they are..
I'm also yet to turn into a super duper dressage rider