When a TWH learns to balance and collect into a controlled and elegant canter there are unique characteristics that add to it's animation and brilliance. The rocking chair canter becomes a "stepping" gait rather than a "leaping" gait as the driving hind leg reaches under and plants just a fracti...
An elegant, balanced rocking chair canter is executed with a more neutral and relaxed topline than the flatter lopes or canters. It is slower, more deliberate and the entire skeletal structure of the horse is in a more orthopedically sound posture than when we see high headed and flat canters. ...
As depressing as the foxtrot represented by this winning horse, I didn't see a single canter that was effortless and offered by the horse. If you have to yank on the mouth to get a horse to canter you should just give up and quit trying. Every single horse looked miserable at the canter.
When a TWH learns to balance and collect into a controlled and elegant canter there are unique characteristics that add to it's animation and brilliance. The rocking chair canter becomes a "stepping" gait rather than a "leaping" gait as the driving hind leg reaches under and plants just a fracti...