VOLUME 17 • © HORSES For LIFE™ Magazine

Leading affecting Movement
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After what seems like a lifetime of studying horses, it came to me fairly late that I could see a difference in the movement of horses before and after riding. Sometimes the horse seemed to lose, rather than gain. The freedom, the pride, the exquisite use of his entire body, the lift, the power, literally turned into pedestrian, boring, flat and often awkward. I began to look for when this change occurred.

 When was it? When did it go from incredible to dull? And why was I seeing it in some horses and not others?