Driven Dressage
Across
- 1. Three beat gait
- 4. Highly collected trot almost entirely in place
- 5. How quick or slow the horse's feet travel across the ground
- 6. Highly powerful collected and elevated trot
- 7. Equestrian sport derived from the French word for training
- 9. A prescribed sequence of dressage movements used for competitive scoring
- 12. Two beat gait
- 13. Created energy to carry himself through his hind legs, lowering the croup and lifting the withers while maintaining impulsion
- 14. The thrust and energy generated from the hindquarters
- 17. Lateral movement in which horse moves forward and sideways bending in the direction of travel
- 18. A subtle cue to rebalance the horse and prepare for a transition
Down
- 1. Cantering on the outside lead to improve balance and control
- 2. Controlled movement of several backward steps
- 3. The flexibility of the horse
- 8. The moment or phase of the trot or canter in which the horse has no feet on the ground
- 10. Maximum length of stride, frame and phase of suspension
- 11. A gait which has no suspension
- 15. Lateral movement in which horse moves forward and sideways flexed away from direction of travel
- 16. The regularity of the horses gait