Good afternoon this is Will Faerber again coming to you again from the Guadalajara Country Club here with Masha. This horse has a few problems, including that he is broken in the neck. What we are talking about here today is trying to get the horse to lengthen out from the shoulder so he doesn’t just bend the neck over, which is what a lot of these horses do.

There is nothing worse than a horse that comes behind the bridle and just drops the bit in his mouth, because when in a difficult situation will just run away with you. If he looks like he is a little behind the vertical it is because he is broken in the neck. We are now going to experiment with a sitting trot with this horse, as long as it doesn’t affect the trot. Our sitting trot should never interfere with the rising trot. She will sit three strides and then come right back up out of the saddle. This is how all of you should be developing the sitting trot with your own horses at home. When you are working with a young horse, you never want to get on them and drop the stirrups because it will destroy the horses’s back.

Masha is the dressage professional here at the Country Club and has been riding her whole life. She is the top rider here in Mexico who will be on the team soon! She has many lovely horses and will be coming up to California as well to work with us. You can look for her on the show circuit soon in California. She will now show us a leg yield across the diagonal. Then she will let him stretch and as you can see in this direction we have a better view of his neck. Beautiful, all the way down!

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