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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3712
"You do not need much skill to maintain a good position... if your horse is not moving." ~ Jimmy Wofford
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3711
"I want to make the horse shorter because he is rounder, not because he is shorter, squeezed, and jammed." ~ Miguel Tavora
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3710
"Give. Give so that he offers, so every touch of your leg goes through the whole body of the horse and doesn’t get stuck. Make him carry himself, then after the half halt, you can give again." ~ Stefan Wolff
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3709
Groundwork can help build a better relationship between horse and rider. The trust and respect built during work in hand will carry over to your under saddle work. IF you approach it the same way.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3708
"There is one principle that should never be abandoned when training a horse, namely, that the rider must learn to control himself before he can control his horse. This is the basic, most important principle to be preserved in equitation." ~ Alois Podhajsky
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3707
"You've chosen a sport that requires you to be motivated by failure." ~ Kyle Carter
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3706
"Your horse's desire to go forward must be greater than your need to remind him. But he must stay calm in his mind and loose in his body." ~ Christine Traurig
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3705
If you don't give your horse something to do, they might give YOU something to do. Always have a plan for each ride, and keep your horse's mind engaged with YOUR plan.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3704
"Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so." ~ Thomas Carlyle -- This can work with horses too
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3703
The true sign of a champion (which applies to both horse and rider) - The harder things get, the more they rise to the occasion.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3702
"Flexibility and self-carriage are the source of the horse's agility. Good turns, which develop its agility, are obtained only by making the horse flexible, putting it into balance, and thus giving it self-carriage. This involves not merely the lateral flexion of the entire spinal column but more
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3701
"A major consideration concerning the horse’s posture in all lateral movements is the bend in the rib cage behind the withers. For achieving this bend is the foundation for the suppleness of the entire horse. One will never achieve this bend if one rides the lateral movements on