> > If Alex gave her about one or two inches more of rein....what would happen? > > I don't know--I'll ask her to try it next time and see.
Let me know if she feels a difference. > It's been a long time coming to get this much canter. Is there > anything Alex could do to slow it down? The other horses in the arena > have a slow, relaxed canter while Gat is always racing like she > doesn't know how to canter slow or like she needs to go fast just to > canter. Is it lack of balance? Or fitness? > V Isn't that the $64,000 question? In Hreggur's case I think it was many years of just not using those muscles. He had developed a sort of hard wiring for it. Every time I managed to get him into canter, it was like he was shot out of a cannon. I'll be interested to hear responses from others who have experienced this and succeeded in developing a controlled canter. It's a problem with these pacey ones. Does she hard pace in pasture? Canter? Wanda
