Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here at the Guadalajara Country Club working here with Masha. Masha is the daughter of a famous Russian Olympic rider. She is working here with a lot of these Spanish horses, which we will show you in upcoming videos. They are developing the Spanish Sport Horse breed, which is really using the Andalusians and Lusitanos as foundations for these horses and they are creating a lovely horse that can really get over it’s back and has natural straight moving gaits as opposed to the Andalusians in the past that had crooked front legs.

I have heard people say that with Friesians and horses like that, since they have necks built the way that they are that you shouldn’t stretch them. Nothing could be further from the truth. The higher the horse is built naturally in the neck, he is probably weaker in the back making it more necessary to stretch. Masha is going to get him into a nice stretch and notice how when he comes into that frame he gets more suspension in his gaits and we see him springing off the ground. He pops back up a little bit, but that is very normal because she has only been working him for a short period of time and before he had quite a few training problems.

It doesn’t matter what kind of horse you are working with, the foundations of Classical dressage are for all horses. Developing their toplines so that they can stay sound. Once again this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and we will be posting more videos from Guadalajara soon!

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