Dorothee Schneider works with this rider to make sure that the horse”a 15-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding”is listening and concentrating.œWe all know the feeling when the horse isnt listening, so we need to give him the time, she said. Once he was concentrating, they started working on the upper-level movements.
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