✶ Terminology ✶
Below you will find some words or phrases used within the drill community.

✶ Gaits ✶
✶ Walk - This is your horse's first gait/speed within the game.
✶ Trot / Jog - This is your horse's second gait/speed within the game.
✶ Canter / Lope - This is your horse’s third gait/speed within the game.
✶ Slow gallop / Hand gallop - This is your horse’s fourth gait/speed within the game.
✶ Full gallop - This is your horse’s fifth gait/speed within the game.

 

✶ Alignments ✶

✶ On combs or splits, always make sure you're in the correct alignments. If we are working trot then your horse's tail should be in line with the lead horse's nose. If we are working canter then it is a horse and a half / horse spacing in front of lead.

✶ Other Terms ✶
✶ Closed Formation - When riding side by side, riders should aim to be boots brushing with the rider next to them.
✶ DYE - Riders will ride from corner to corner across the arena in a diagonal line.
✶ Fours / Quads - Groups of four riders aligned side by side.
✶ Open Formation - When riding side by side, riders leave room for an invisible horse between them and the rider next to them.
✶ Outside Horse -  When in sets of two or more the horse closest to the rail is the outside horse.
✶ Pairs / Pair Up - Groups of two riders aligned side by side.
✶ Pivot Horse - When in sets of two or more the horse closest to the centre is the pivot horse.
✶ Saddle Cross - This is the technique used by riders to appear to be crossing through gaps on the viewer's screen.
✶ Screen Delay - Within Star Stable all riders experience screen delay this is where you appear on other players screens a bit further behind where you actually are.
✶ Sets - When riders are riding side by side, each group is called a set.
✶ Single file - One horse following another in a single line.

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✶ Spacings ✶ 
✶ NTT - Nose to Tail

✶ OT -  Overlap Tail

✶ HI - Halfway Inside

✶ Horse Spacings - OT with an invisible horse in front of you (roughly one horse away from the person actually in front)

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