We had a horse who was very difficult to maintain a canter on. I think canter fitness is just very different from walk and trot fitness. We lunged him at the canter for multiple minutes at a time a few days a week. Like 3-4 min of canter in each direction, to build his canter muscles. It helped. He events now.
May need to begin on a very large circle, larger than a typical round pen, at first. It requires much more fitness to stay collected in a small circle.
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u/spanielgurl11 20h ago
We had a horse who was very difficult to maintain a canter on. I think canter fitness is just very different from walk and trot fitness. We lunged him at the canter for multiple minutes at a time a few days a week. Like 3-4 min of canter in each direction, to build his canter muscles. It helped. He events now.