A simple figure-of-eight drill to improve your horse canter
- Warm up and ride some counter-canter loops to prepare
- Begin a figure-of-eight shape in true canter with a half 20m circle
- As you cross X, stay on the same lead moving into counter-canter
- Complete the second half of the figure-of-eight in counter-canter, then return to true canter
- Repeat on the other rein
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