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Use Walter Zettl's shoulder-in entwickeln exercise to improve your dressage horse's suppleness, balance and rhythm.   In the shoulder-in entwickeln exercise you ride shoulder-in on the long side, straighten your horse on the diagonal track, ask for shoulder-in again and ride the movement back to the track. This shoulder-in exercise by Walter Zettl requires an …

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  You hear this over and over again, move your horse from the inside leg to the outside rein. Do you really understand that relationship? Anytime you ask your horse to make a turn, a circle, or ride around a corner you need to use that inside leg to outside rein connection. It is a …

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