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RE: [RC] Trot vs canter - Nancy Sturm


Funny - my daughter and I were having  a version of this discussion this
morning.  She rides an off-the-track  Standardbred who paced at the track
and can both trot and pace but does not have a well-developed canter.  Are
we correct in assuming that he's going to be more efficient pacing or
trotting?

Nancy Sturm

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From: Ridecamp Guest <guest-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2/1/2005 4:01:05 PM
Subject: [RC]   Trot vs canter

Please Reply to: Dian Woodward dwcsarabs@xxxxxxxxx or
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I would think it might be more comfortable for some horses, maybe even
most horses, to canter over a trot.

Here's a suggestion, pull out your heart monitors and start practicing
the canter, check your horse between trot and canter and see what its heart
rate does.  Make sure you are changing diaginols at the trot to keep your
horse balanced and your not pogo-sticking one leg into the ground.  Then
start cantering, this will take practice to get the horse to carry itself
in a collected manner, if you are ripping across the landscape at an rather
high rate of speed, please slow down to a collected  nice show canter but
not the peanut roll canter.  Make sure to change leads at the canter,
again, to prevent pogo-sticking one leg into the ground This will also help
your horse build a more rounded frame.  

You may find they tend to relax at the soft canter and the heart rate
drops. Switch back and forth. Not all will drop immediately, but with
practice it should.  Some are built more for the canter then the trot.





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