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Dear Chelsie, Do you have any suggestions for a horse that leans dramatically in the lope? I have a nice little gelding who is triple bred Poco Bueno and has Dry Doc as well. He is young and green. I have been starting young horses for 10 years now and I have never had one [...]
Q. Chelsie, I have a Few Spot Appaloosa gelding that I bought about two years ago. I trained him from scratch and he’s turned out pretty good. Since I’ve spent so much time working him, I haven’t been able to show in 4-H. This year my goal is to show with Blu, my gelding, in [...]
Hello Everyone, This month in the series we are going to talk about the canter foot falls and right and left leads. So let us first start with how many beats in a canter. The Canter has 3 beats. There are 4 legs and only 3 beats, so this means that 2 legs move together [...]
Hello everyone, This month I am going to talk about canter leads and departures. We talked about the canter foot falls a few months ago. Knowing the canter foot falls is going to help us here in getting better canter departs and the correct lead. So to just recap, the canter is 3 beats. The [...]
