Swap your corridors for lines of three or four bright-coloured poles placed between a pair of jump stands. Start with the poles about 1m (3.3ft) apart and adjust them according to your horse's stride - you want him to have to stretch a little to bounce through them, but not flatten or or he may become unbalanced.
Now you can practise your 'recovery' - collecting the trot again after the poles. Ride the same figure-of-eight exercise as before.
When you are happy, introduce canter as you hit the track. Turn to the next line of poles in canter, come back to collected trot when you're straight and ride over the poles. After the poles, leg-yield back out to the track, canter and repeat.
Article first published in the October 2012 issue of H&R magazine
