Jackie helps a young, professional rider working with a horse for the first time. Their challenge is to take this extravagant mover and put him into a little more of a package as well as get his attention when he gets distracted without making him tense.

They notice that the horse tends to get faster and hotter as he is ridden, so Jackie suggests they try to slow everything down. She wants everything to be “boring” to help the horse relax. The focus is on improving the lateral connection, which will in turn improve the longitudinal connection fro...

They work on slowing down the left lead canter by using the outside rein and the rider putting weight in her stirrup pads instead of in her seat. They finish with carefully stretching him in the trot keeping the relaxation and having the nose go out in front.

Steffen has them work in the trot remembering to be sure he gives and moves away from the leg before releasing the pressure.

Steffen Peters first talks about the use of counter canter in teaching the flying changes. He watches her warm up at the walk and trot.

Steffen helps the rider bend the horse effectively.

When the horse spooks, Steffen has them do walk halt transitions, and explains why they can be an useful tool for nervous horses. They continue the warm up in the canter including transitions within the gaits.

Steffen offers excellent advice on how to deal with a spooky horse.

They continue to work on yielding from the leg and bending as tools to use when he spooks.

They ride a figure 8 pattern with leg yielding to control the spooking. When this works they move on to using the whole arena.

They end with working on the turn on the haunches.

How to get your horse to stand at the mounting block and the beginning discussion of how to control the flight response.