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horses had and liked to keep their minds thinking all the time too. I regularly look through his books to remind myself of the things we did together and I use the exercises each week.


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Here I am going to show you a simple training exercise that every rider will enjoy and will find helpful, whatever their level of experience. It may look simple, but it’s surprising how oſten you see a rider struggling to keep a good canter in the ring.


any of you will have seen my Dad’s training books, he was very disciplined in the work the


Dad used to say he wanted his horses to dream in canter, we only use trot to warm up before canter and go into the ring. Canter is our most important pace.


We use this a lot to help our young horses, it helps them to keep what we call a regular canter, but it will help any horse. Some would call it a mid-canter; this is the one we would jump all our show jumping rounds in unless it was against the clock in a jump off.


Horses don’t naturally attack a jump, they have learnt to do this because of the way they’ve been trained. You sometimes see a rider approach a single fence by holding the horse back and then sending it forward when they believe they’ve seen a stride. The horse then


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