Re: on the bit

["Dyane Smith" <sunibey@sisqtel.net>]

Karla, 
Where is that great dressage instructor of yours?
Dyane 
N. Cal.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Karla Koch Dick <karlak@mail.tca.net>
To: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:49 AM
Subject: RC: on the bit


> All the talk about on the bit and dressage in endurance made me think of
> an instructor I once had.
> 
> I had a dressage instructor who could put a horse into a wonderful
> frame, rear totally engaged, without touching the reins so when she did
> touch the reins they were already prepared and most of the way to
> collection.  She insisted that to get a good, true collected frame, a
> person began on a loose rein, and asked the horse to USE his rear.  She
> would work the horses at all gaits, seeking to encourage them to reach
> underneath them and give her balanced gaits with a rounded back and good
> impulsion, her results were very good.  She insisted that done from back
> to front that when the horse was ready, you would already have his head
> were you wanted it because he'd put it there himself as he conditioned
> and learned to carry the rider.  And while she might make contact with
> his mouth at times to train him to read the bit, her horses stayed very
> light.
> 
> She had the most wonderfully trained school horses.
> 
> 
> 
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