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How to get the perfect
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First Part of a Series
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In the next few installments, Les Vogt
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shows you how to get the perfect lead
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departure everytime.
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consider the lead departure one of the
missing links for trail riders or people
who ride for pleasure. Recreational
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Foundation Training for the
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Performance Horse with Les Vogt
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told her that there was a much easier way Horses used for ranch work will no longer
than this bone-jarring, extended trot by have to resort to that bone-jarring trot
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going from the walk instead. She didn’t before they lope and knowing how to do a
understand why it good departure can
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As I travel around block for
giving clinics, what I teaching a lead
typically see is that a change. I think
few people can do you are asking for a
a lead departure ton of trouble if you
but most can’t. I’ll start asking for a
ask them to do a lead change before
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can see where they maneuver your
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Les is a regular
Although the California
You will fi nd your greatest savings will be that you
departure from walk to lope is easier Horsetrader column. Les Vogt has won
may never need our services again! on the rider, it is not a natural one more than 15 World Championships,
for the horse. Watch your horse when he including two wins at the NRCHA Snaffle
We Travel Anywhere! is turned out in the field and you will Bit Futurity. Although Les still rides and
probably see that most of the time he will occasionally shows, his focus is giving
Joseph Chavez trot into the lope. There are a few times clinics around the world and developing
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other horses when they will go from a halt To learn more about Les and to see his
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or walk into the lope, but basically it is clinic schedule, visit the Web site:
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