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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2000
If you don't train for self carriage at the gallop, and instead attempt to hold your horse with a strong contact the whole time while on course, you will probably get really tired by the end of a long course, and your horse's mouth will become more and more "dead", and less and less responsive.
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