Grand Prix Movements Warm-up | Laura Graves
Laura Graves
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9m 6s
Laura helps a Grand Prix horse and rider combination. The goal is to touch on many of the test movements, but while the horse is warming up, Laura talks about some of the high value test movements like piaffe, passage and pirouettes.
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