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A little trick for those of you who need to be more stable with your outside rein connection, and your outside hand in general, is to try the temporary exercise of holding onto your saddle pad with the fingers of your outside hand. Stabilizing your outside hand in this way
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Too much use of the inside rein will almost always make a horse fight. If your horse is fighting with you in any situation, check that you are not hanging on the inside rein unconsciously.
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"Dressage is not an easy sport, there are so many variations, but the reaction to your leg, and straightness, are so important. You just don’t see top Grand Prix riders kicking or straining for a result. Don’t tease him, tap there so quick he doesn’t know
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"The instructor improves the horse only through the rider, so the riding lesson should focus on the rider." ~ Charles de Kunffy
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The most energy efficient way for a horse to gallop cross country is to gallop in balance, so that very little adjustments are necessary in front of the fences. If you could gallop in such a way that a fence could drop from the sky and land in front of
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Impress your Dressage judges by showing a clear difference between riding a corner and part of a circle.
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"Allow your horse the opportunity to use his neck more." ~ Reiner Klimke
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"I must remember that my hands can go forward without the rest of my body following." ~ Catherine Norman
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"Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect." ~ Jimmy Wofford
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Even the hot horse needs to be ridden forward.
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"Mistakes of the horse's legs show up in the mouth." ~ Nuno Oliveira
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Your training goal for the "hot" or high strung horse should be to help him to learn how to control his energy. Don't try to wear him out. That will never work with the truly hot horse.
