How to Transition a Horse into an Extended Lope

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I'm Kelly on behalf of Expert Village. I'm going to show you some tips and techniques when cantering or loping my horse. Some Western classes will ask for an extended lope or if you are going to have to pass a horse, you may want to extend your lope to get around that horse quickly and get back on that rail so you don't lose a lot of rail position. Basically what your extended lope is going to be is not necessarily your horse is going faster, but it is going to be extending it's stride, so it will be lengthening it's stride, so it will cover more ground without necessarily picking up more speed. So let me pull her into a lope, so what I'm going to do is just going to apply a little more outside leg pressure and I am going to get her to just lengthen her stride. So you see she is not necessarily going any faster, but she is covering more ground. Still staying nice and soft and balanced, so we just keep applying outside leg pressure. Whoa, and that's riding the extended lope.

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