Wow! Who knew horses could skip and dance?

[sugarplumkitty]

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One of my horsey friends sent me this in an email. What I know about dressage could fit in a thimble but this was so incredible it brought tears to my eyes.

ANDREAS HELGSTRAND - WEG2006 Freestyle Final

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[tintedsparkle.livejournal.com]

The lipizzan and andalusian shows aren't meant to be like dressage really, but if you could see a whole show you'd be able to see the correlation. Those horse move in ways horses normally don't, and do incredibly athletic stunts and choreographed routines. What this mare is doing is trained, although the athletissim was bred into her. The lipizzans, andalusians and even mechlenbergs have those capabilities bred into them from centuries ago in rome, greece and then into spain and germany. Those horses start lead changing the second they are cantered, and start hopping as soon as they have the strength.