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Typical Dressage Test
Who says I can’t ride dressage?
- A enter working trot, haunches left.
- X transition to a walk, take six steps, halt parked out behind.
- Proceed working trot, haunches right.
- C spook left.
- E oval left, 18.7 meters by 22 meters.
- Between K and A pick up the counter canter, trot, and pick up the correct lead.
- A break canter.
- F resume canter.
- B oval left 23 m by 19 m.
- Between the centerline and B, have horse collapse on his front end into a shuffling trot. Pretend this"transition” was intentional.
- C shuffling walk.
- C-H more shuffling walk, with a jog step or two.
- H-(squiggly line)-the general vicinity of X-(squiggly line)-F free walk, long rein. Show a marked difference in stride, including four jog steps, six jig steps, an extended walk, a collected walk, and a Western peanut-rolling amble through the country side.
- F-A bolt forward.
- A transition downwards into a high-stepping carriage-horse sort of trot.
- E circle right twenty meters, displaying canter-trot transitions every fifth step.
- Between the centerline and B, halt. Proceed collected trot.
- A down centerline, shoulder-fore.
- X halt square, fall off in shock.
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