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Horse riding is becoming an increasingly popular activity. The attraction is simple – the horses… the physical challenge… the fact that anyone can begin to learn, young and old(er…

Does this happen to you? You are working on a stretch over the back at the trot, but the moment you let your reins out, your horse goes faster and faster until he feels like he’s going to go …

Suppleness can be an elusive concept for many people as well as horses. On the one hand, “finding” suppleness can be a rather long term and difficult undertaking, especially for novice …

You’ve booked your lessons and can’t wait to get started. You’re all set and just waiting to see what your instructor has to tell you. That’s all you need, right? Well, yes …

Turn left here. Canter circle there. Halt for five seconds. Then trot in a straight line out of the halt. If you’ve never ridden tests (or patterns – I’ll use the word “test…

Confused about which is which? Do you use it interchangeably sometimes? I did, until I finally figured out the difference. Although I’ve already had a good grasp of rhythm and tempo in musica…

We ride our horses as if they should know what we want them to do. We know we’re perfectly clear in our aids as we go around the ring or on the trails, so surely the horse should have no prob…

I made a fairly bold statement in a previous article that was about differentiating between frame, roundness and collection. I said that most of us don’t actually ride in collection with our…

"Keep the horse in front of your leg!" This is an expression you might often hear in dressage lessons, but it is also highly relevant and often referred to in other disciplines. Although the phrase...