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I would think it might be more comfortable for some horses, maybe even most 
horses, to canter over a trot.

Here's a suggestion, pull out your heart monitors and start practicing the 
canter, check your horse between trot and canter and see what its heart rate 
does.  Make sure you are changing diaginols at the trot to keep your horse 
balanced and your not pogo-sticking one leg into the ground.  Then start 
cantering, this will take practice to get the horse to carry itself in a 
collected manner, if you are ripping across the landscape at an rather high 
rate of speed, please slow down to a collected  nice show canter but not the 
peanut roll canter.  Make sure to change leads at the canter, again, to prevent 
pogo-sticking one leg into the ground This will also help your horse build a 
more rounded frame.

You may find they tend to relax at the soft canter and the heart rate drops. 
Switch back and forth. Not all will drop immediately, but with practice it 
should.  Some are built more for the canter then the trot.


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