Sure you will. ?Think of “Lifting the Neck” as merely Part 1 of the “Neck Control Continuum”.
Our finished horse should be happy to travel in whatever frame we ask – from upright and highly collected, to dropped and extended – and with a vertical face in either position, should we wish it.
I can actually physically enforce the first position of the neck (high/vertical) quite easily by lifting the reins. ?But what means have I?to physically enforce the second extreme? ?None … none short or resorting to auxiliary devices which physically prevent him from raising his head, which unnecessary, dangerous, and destructive.
And why should I bother with ‘teaching’ the second thing, when teaching him to lift?first (which, by the way, will also teach him to collect) will make dropping and?extending super easy to obtain, because it becomes its own reward? ?I wouldn’t!
Listen: ?Correct?high school training?only makes it possible?to communicate more?effectively with your horse. ?My finished horses are happy to?move like hunters when they hunt, or a reiner in stock tackle, or like a Grand Prix-level dressage horse in “competition frame”. ?The last thing is the hardest thing. ?By achieving it first, medium, low, and extended carriage is easy to effect. ?We will not have “trained him to set his head” in this or that fixed position. ?We will have trained him to place his head and neck wherever we want them.