Dressage: Foundation for All Riding Disciplines
Lesson One Quiz
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TRUE OR FALSE:
1. You must have a young horse or a warmblood to do dressage.
True False
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2. At the trot the diagonal pair of legs are the right front & right rear, and the left front & left rear.
3. The horse's back should lower when he is collected.
4. A simple lead change is when a canter is purposefully dropped down to either halt/walk/trot and then picked up once again but on the opposite lead.
5. A green horse is only a young horse.
6. Classical dressage started in Panama.
7. Horses have no independent thoughts.
8. When backing up, each leg moves independently, one at a time.
9. The horse's engine is in the front.
10. Dressage training will improve the fitness of your horse.
11. Horses can naturally do some dressage without training.
12. If the horse does not understand the lesson, then he must be drilled over and over.
13. Dressage training can improve your western pleasure horse.
14. If the horse is enjoying himself, he will not learn anything.
15. Everyone else riding dressage understands what is going on.
16. To put the horse on the bit, you pull his head in as far as you can and hold him there.
17. When the horse lengthens his strides, he moves quicker.
18. In dressage, it does not matter if you learn to improve your riding as long as the horse can do it.
19. The poll on the horse has no feeling.
20. One of the rider's aids is his voice.
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21. Write a paragraph or two explaining what you are hoping to gain from this course and what some of your goals are with the horse you are using.
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