Andalucian horses

Dressage involves the progressive training of the horse to a high level of impulsion, collection, and obedience. Competitive dressage has the goal of showing the horse carrying out, on request, the natural movements that it performs without thinking while running loose. They continue to serve in remote areas and in metropolitan areas where their day-to-day function may be picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control because of their mobile mass and height advantage and increasingly in the UK for crime prevention and high visibility policing roles. They are seen in casual pursuits such as trail riding. Ponies also are shown in dressage, equitation, and other events, even in international-level competition.

Then slowly, almost imperceptibly at first, the return of the draft horse got underway. As the price of horses recovered so did the breeding. Registrations and transfers made slow but steady gains until in 1980 they surpassed the previous high set in 1937. The average for 1981-85 was 4056 registrations and 5920 transfers, easily the greatest five year period in the breed's history. The aids for the canter are different for the walk and trot in order to "tell" the horse which leg to lead with. Whilst in sitting trot, to ask for canter the leg nearest the outside of the school should be moved gently back slightly whilst the leg nearest the inside of the school remains in the normal position. With the legs in this position, sit up straight and gently squeeze or give a small kick to ask the horse to canter.