Lateral work to engage the hind leg with Rafael Soto

Janet guides the first rider through the PSG test giving scores and comments as she rides.  Janet offers great advice for what to do when a mistake is made during the test.  The second rider then rides the trot portions of the Grand Prix, again with scores and commentary.

The second rider performs the Grand Prix test through the trot movements.  Debbie steps in and works with the first rider, working first on responsiveness.  She asks the rider to go rising when he slips behind the leg, and they use a unique way of carrying the whip to catch his attention.  They w...

Debbie now works with the Grand Prix pair, again making sure that he is instantly responsive.  She asks that the horse is forward even in the collected moments.  Debbie helps her to get him to push from behind, asking for passage only when he is pulling her forward slightly.  She asks for a littl...

They move onto the canter. Again working on the horse being energetic and responsive to the rider. This horse wants to fall to the left in a circle, and Adelinde addresses that with the placement of the riders hands. She encourages the rider to keep the rhythm even through lateral work.

The lesson progresses with more canter work with the half pirouette in mind. The challenge comes in keeping the same rhythm. Adelinde tells the rider to imagine there are poles on the ground that you have to jump.

Work toward the pirouette continues. Adelinde points out how this horse needs to be more flexible in his back in order to be able to bring his inside hind leg further in. The emphasis remains on the rhythm and speed control. Adelinde advises the rider that by having control of her horse's legs s...

Adelinde starts off talking about the challenge of riding indoors vs. outdoors. Once the rider is warmed up she wants to immediately start working on getting the horse more responsive to her leg. She has the rider use transitions to help achieve this. Adelinde has her flex the horse and encourage...

Lotje Schoots begins this ride by explaining her training methods for Zarah, her PSG mare. She looks for suppleness and relaxation while riding on contact. She uses travers at the walk to help her stretch, using her outside hind to come forwards and sideways while keeping the connection. In th...

PVDA Sponsored 2011 tests and teaching clinic, Prix St. Georges , S Level

Catherine has the rider visit the canter pirouettes and explains how they work with a horse that is slightly behind the leg in the pirouettes.  In the canter half passes they check how well the horse is moving away from the leg to X to a flying change, half pass back to the corner and another fly...

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

Grand Prix, Half Pass, Debbie trains the movement thinking slightly quicker tempo because your always going to lose a bit of tempo due to the lateral reach, so keeping him active is of utmost importance. Think shoulder in, carrying you across the ring, the haunches are secondary and following.

PSG Test and commentary with Axel Steiner.

They end the session with trot work which is very challenging to sit with his huge, lofty gait so they begin posting. This day proves to be a day for working the lateral movements rather than work on the sitting trot. They work in more of a second level frame to keep him happy in his work at th...

Chrissa introduces us to Faustus, a horse she presented on DTO in two other videos- Developing the Changes and Frame and Contact. They have had some wins in the Developing PSG classes, but slowed his training to sort out some ulcer issues and are just returning him to work. Chrissa, due to her ...

They continue in the canter while Chrissa explains true connection and how they use haunches in to help him get his hind end under and his neck softer. They take the time to produce this and then ask for the stretch at the canter. When on a circle he tends to push into her outside aids, Chrissa ...

Faustus shows some stretch in his trot after the break and then return to the canter, again using the haunches in to get him more under himself. He shows his medium down the long side and then they do a flying change while changing direction. While cantering right they struggle a bit with the co...

Catherine Haddad coaches aœgreen PSG horse, talking through all the points that the rider needs to check before entering the arena to rider their test.  They start with the walk in a good forward rhythm before moving on the working trot rising in about a Training Level frame to warm up. They make...

Hubertus works with a PSG/ I1 horse schooling GP, starting with a warm up that lets the mare stretch while checking on flexion.