On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:31:18AM +0100, Mic Rushen wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:19:33 -0700, you wrote: > > >It is a principle to which all experience masters subscribe that a horse > >should never be galloped before having been suppled with the trot so that it > >neither bears on the hands nor pulls at the reins. One must wait, then, > >until the horse is supple in its entire body, trained to the shoulder-in and > >the croup to the wall, and is accomplished in the piaffe between the > >pillars; and as soon as it has reached this point of development, it will > >perform the gallop willingly and without much coaxing. > > Hmmmmm. I can't see many Icelandic trainers subscribing to that idea! > ; )
i think there must be a big difference between schooling a horse who's been cantering of its own accord over natural terrain for five years, and schooling one who's kept in a stall most of the time.... --vicka
