Dressage Dog - For Horse and Dog Lovers - Page 1

A Dressage trainer friend of mine told me about this video.
Wish it was a little clearer.......but still not bad.

For those of you who do not know.......Dressage is an equestrian riding discipline....think Lippazan Stallions from the Famous Vienna Riding School.
Through subtle cues given by the rider......the horse performs very precise movements often times to music choreographed to each step the horse takes.

Here's a sample video (sorry it's a little long) of a horse performing moves to music, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eet-Vbg-YJ4&feature=fvwrel
Now watch the dog, Everything the dog does in this video horses do in upper level Dressage.....Pay particular attention to the dogs front legs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sknEaZHHbhc

Hope You enjoy it.

That was great.  I have a couple of friends that do dressge.  One of my friends does it with her horse "Max" (Romerito II from Yeguada Romerito Farm) and my other with her horse that was put down last year but was a beautiful mover. 

I also forwarded it to my trainer friends, both who train K9s, it was a hoot, thanks

When i was a Lad i rode the Steeplechaser Race Horses and i did a bit of Show Jumping and some Dressage. Great  fun it was to I also liked to do the cross country courses with about 30 obstacles of all kinds. Those Videos are always great to see where animals are trained to such a high degree
Steve1

wow that dog is just awesome! I used to ride dressage long time ago, probably would have to learn it all over again...it's hard work...

My daughter and I enjoyed watching both videos. Thank you so much for sharing :)

About 16 years ago, Terri Arnold did a routine with her Goldens. Two dogs at one time, one on each side. Cool as it was, the heeling routine with her dog Stride at the OB Regionals a couple of years before that, was really something.
I couldn't find the video for that, but I did find a demonstration they did.

Stride was her very accomplished OB dog, but when retired, he excelled at this new game. She was still using a training stick with him for this video, but this was the start of the freestyle dancing stuff.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=177625972258807