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> Although, it is also handy in when walking down hill in the mud--which I
> just spent a bit of time doing today, since we are, yet again, getting
> innundated with rain--but we didn't spend very much time on the walk
> part of the exercise and after the first pass, proceeded to doing the
> exercise at the trot (doing it at the walk was really just intended to
> ensure that there weren't any invisible sink holes on the trail that I
> was using).  So I guess that is another place where the collected walk
> can come in handy, situations of unsure footing.
Point well taken--although it has been my experience that a responsive
horse that has been taught to collect at other gaits will readily collect
at a walk without having been "taught" to do so when terrain dictates that
that is the best way to go.  What I want to discourage is having him do it
at any other time by asking for it when terrain does not call for it, and
the notion that a collected walk is not something asked for until the
upper levels of dressage suggests that conventional wisdom apparently
thought so, too.  :-)

Heidi



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