Good morning this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride here in Poway with Laura Sakakeeny, who you have seen once before. I wanted to give you a little update on her and also show you how beautifully her horse is now going.

Interesting thing with this horse today is that she has been able to sit to the canter for the first time and he is beautifully working over his back! This was another horse that was a little broken over in the neck, but now that is straightening out beautifully and we can hardly see that at all. We are very happy to say that Laura just went to her first horse show with this horse doing dressage and did very very well!

After we do a little work, we always come right back to the stretch. We remind and refresh the back and get the blood flowing through those muscles. That is why it is so important for the development of the topline. Just like you, if you keep your muscles compressed all the time, you will soon get sore, same goes for horses. We have to let the muscles breath so to speak.

Go back and compare these videos, I ask that my students do so as well to see if you can start to discern if the horse is stepping deeper under the body and if the back looks like it has developed some. In this horse especially you can see his neck is out longer and he doesn’t have the break in his neck that he had the last time we saw him and he is coming out beautifully and swinging through the back. Once again, this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride with Laura Sakakeeny here at Peppertree Farms in Poway CA and we will see you next time.

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