Dressage tests require the rider to perform working trot, medium trot, extended trot, and collected trot. Here is how they differ and how to train your horse to do them.

2023年1月10日 · In collected trot, the horse offers a shorter length of stride when compared to working, medium trot or extended trot. What is collected trot? The collected trot requires the horse to...

2025年1月16日 · Learn what a good working, collected, medium and extended trot should look like and how to develop trot in your horse

When collected trotting, a horse keeps his or her whole body engaged and carries most of their weight towards their hindquarters. The perfect collected trot is characterized by a compressed frame, a short stride length, and high steps. This should lead to higher mobility and light movements overall.

When the horse is collected, the picture you present is light, balanced, and elegant, and even the most difficult technical exercises appear easy to the onlooker. So, how do you collect your horse? Keep reading to find out!

We all know that there are three recognized gaits in dressage: the four-beat walk, the two-beat trot and the three-beat canter. But dressage also recognizes “types” of gaits: medium, free, collected and extended walk; and working, medium, collected and extended trot and canter.

Here is how to collect a horse. Step 1: The all-important half halt. If you can't execute a good half halt, you can't collect your horse. Period. A half halt does not mean slowing your horse down. It means rebalancing your horse by shifting his weight toward his haunches, bringing his hind legs under him, and raising his back.

3 – Collected trot. The collected trot demands greater self-carriage from the horse. The additional judges’ requirements are: The horse shifts more weight onto his hindquarters, resulting in a shorter stride length and a taller stride height. The horse should demonstrate greater mobility and freedom in the shoulders.

The trot in dressage calls for four variations: collected, working, medium, and extended. Ideally, the tempo of footfalls and suspension remains the same in all variations of the trot. To maintain the rhythm in spite of differing stride lengths, the horse must lift its legs higher.

There are four types of trot that are expected through the levels of dressage: working trot, medium trot, extended trot, and collected trot. In this video, Olympic gold medalist Carl Hester demonstrates a few exercises to help you develop your horse’s trot, and work on …