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feet away from the wall, turn back gently toward it with a leading rein, while asking for a counter-canter depart with the outside leg. Cedar then progressively asked in different locations of the arena with less and less of a loop and continued only a few strides, always return- ing to a forward, loose trot before he has any chance of changing leads. As the work progressed, Toti is getting closer and


closer to the corner at the end of the long side while still cantering. Without ever going deep in the corner, Cedar asked him to do two or three strides on the turn and return to trot, then a few more and so on until he reached


A Word of Caution


It is important to remember that each horse has his own length of stride and degree of balance and the trainer needs to choose an arena of an adequate size to start this work. If the horse has a naturally long stride, the arena needs to be big enough. Conversely, the canter needs to be already more collected (simply slowed down at this stage) to fit a relatively smaller arena. My indoor is 45 meters long and that is adequate for most of the young horses of any breed we train here. When- ever possible, it is always best to start counter-canter on the shallowest curve possible in order to never restrict the horse’s stride.


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the middle of the short side, still in counter-canter. This is the moment when she asked for a return to walk on a loose rein and rewarded him lavishly. Pretty soon, Cedar can ask for a depart on the turn in counter-canter (on a 20 meter circle). If he changed leads inadvertently, she could correct the lead of the front legs with the same technique. Toti soon mastered the figure eight and Cedar can close


the counter-canter circle progressively until she can ask for a full circle and later a three loop serpentine. This manner of developing the counter-canter will later serve Cedar well to teach flying changes to Toti. A true foundation is defined by what can be built above it, not as an arbitrary idea. I learned this method from Master Oliveira and I


have taught flying changes from true canter to counter- canter ever since. It never fails when done methodically. Oliveira and his students (among them the late Dom Diogo de Bragance, author of Dressage of French Tradi- tion) are unique—as far as I know—in insisting on teach- ing the counter-canter in the bend of the turn. It is by far the superior method. Since I followed his progression, I have never had any problem with teaching counter- canter early in the training. My horses have derived great benefits from it (longer, looser canter strides and a great balance in that gait), as long as I never asked them to counter-canter in the bend of the lead until they could do canter half-passes and renvers.


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