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Always with corrective exercises, your goal is not to stylize movement specific to a discipline but rather to create a healthy and functional movement that is free of restriction, that optimizes the full range of joint motion, is balanced, and eliminates patterns that interrupt free-flowing and symmetrical use of the horse’s body. Your elusive aim is indeed “free, forward, and straight.”
Most horses lack optimized movement in one of the following ways. If one of these applies to your horse, prioritize the recommended exercise routines and timelines before returning to a general use of other exercises and information in this book. Obviously, a given horse might struggle with balance or optimized movement for reasons beyond these, but the vast majority struggle with one or more of these common postural challenges.
Resolving Crookedness/Side Dominance
Help horses that lean, drift, or bulge sideways in a particular direction when ridden, or horses that travel and bend their bodies measurably better on one side as opposed to the other and have a preference for a particular canter lead.