Hello this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here today to work on the canter. With me today is Amber and her horse Legolas.

Before you ask for the canter while lunging, you must make sure he can work in the trot over his back first. Notice in the video that we have the line over the top of the horse’s head. He is a young horse and before we got him he would yank his head and drag people out of the arena, and that is why we have the line over the top and connected to the bit with this horse. So if he does begin to act out we can control him without a lot of difficulty.

When is the horse ready to canter? He is ready to canter when you can get him over his back …

This is Dave Murphy and his young Arab filly Zena.

Zena, only a few short weeks ago was a pretty energetic(lets say) young lady who was a little bit out of control. Just by learning some of the basic principles of classical dressage, Dave has learned to apply them to this young horse. As you can see with only 10 or less sessions since we started, this horse has gone from being an uncontrollable young thing to now where she is safe in her pen, letting Dave catch her and coming out and going to work, just by applying a few simple principles.

You can also see why I wanted to film this horse. Here is a horse that has never had a saddle or bridle on and just by teaching it to lunge correctly, you can see how this horse is …