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While dressage is the most eye catching technique Waller employs, he admits that he has to use the full armoury at his disposal to keep Nature Strip ticking over, ready to do himself justice on the track. “We use as much as we can. We never gallop him in company, never try to make him run fast, and we are always trying to make him slow down.”
“ IT OF TEN SEEMED THAT HE HAD ONLY TWO GEARS: STATIONARY OR F L AT OUT”
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