Sounds like Zoey. We just started riding her this past spring. She is 5 now. We bought her last year & she was 11 months pregnant then, so we did not ride her at first. She really did not have any training prior to that. This is her gaits - walk, walk faster, trot, trot faster, trot ever faster, standardbred pace (she is QH), lol. She is starting to canter for us now, but it still a lot of work. She sometimes gets a week or two in between rides, but it does seem the more often she is ridden, the more willing she is to actually canter. The first few times we got her to canter she would buck. Every once in a while she will still throw a hind leg up in protest, but she has gotten much better. We have been having a little trouble with her cross-firing as well. She does not do it all the time, but it still happens.

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