# @clairecumbee on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGykG1BMUTe
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/73486260-clairecumbee-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-04T20:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Claire Cumbee (@clairecumbee) — https://gondola.cc/clairecumbee

## Caption

Frye is home, and I’m wanting to touch up a few things on the flatwork and increase her strength and flexibility. Not only will this make for a more rideable, but I also believe it helps the long-term soundness of the horses to go straight and use themselves.  She has been in some low-lift work, hacking, so over the next few weeks I’d like to get her back into a more competitive shape.
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Frye shows here, you know she wants to carry her haunches a bit to the inside (a common issue I see), there’s a moment I ride her shoulder a little straighter and she breaks to the trot. Developing strength takes time. When I’m working through these, I want my body to ride the positioning I desire with empathy and a positive outlook. I just keep riding the outside a little straighter to come in front of those haunches, go in for a little counter canter to help with the alignment I want. I think empathetic and encouraging is the mindset to have here. With that feeling in all of my cues, she doesn’t get unnerved , or frustrated. If I’d given her a boot when she started to swing her haunches incorrectly to the inside, I’m not really showing her the way to go and creating friction in our partnership. Rather, I maintained my positioning she correctly and we went about our way. This creates a horse that wants to work with me.
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I’m not worried about the moments she broke, or gets a bit off the alignment, I just quietly and empathetically correct and go on. I know what I’m asking requires some strength that takes time. 
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