Improving Contact and Connection – Part 3

They move on to canter work from a forward trot. Jackie stresses that the rider should feel enough energy in the trot to ask for canter. That doesn’t mean rushing the horse in trot to then rush into canter. It should feel more like the horse is carrying the rider in trot so that when the rider asks for canter, it is easy for the horse to step into the higher gait. When that is successful, they try a walk-canter transition.