Basics That Really Work | Carl Hester and Richard Davison | PART 01

Carl Hester introduces the two nine year old GP horses for this session, as well as the fact he will ride NipTuck, his 2014 World Games partner, offering a great diversity of horses to watch.  Carl shows the importance of straightness with many movements that are performed on the centerline. The first horse starts and Carl talks about how they work on straightness even at this level by using shoulder in and leg yield on the centerline.  They show quality canter trot transitions that flow, and then add a bit more power and swing to them.  Carl describes how a trot halt can be forward despite it be a stopping movement.