APRIL 2006 • VOLUME 8 • ©HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine

Collection and balance is "the ability to move in any gait, in any direction at any time".

Every trainer has their favourite exercises. Movements or patterns of movements that they go back to again and again. Exercises that help the trainer achieve their end goal.

Most trainers are often challenged because they are dealing with horses not only that need to be trained but need to re-trained.

Retraining a horse can be a long and arduous task. Difficult, and time consuming. The horse with his incredible memory skills, and his tendency to work in established body patterns, created challenges that can be difficult to overcome.

Frequently one of the challenges faced by a trainer is working with a horse that has been confirmed to work on their forehand. A pattern so long established, that the horse no longer realizes that there is another way of going under the weight of the rider.


It is always a challenge to help introduce this concept to a horse that has become established to being on his forehand. What exercises can we use that "Challenge" your horse and his balance, make him aware that this is his new responsibility.

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