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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3412
To lengthen your horse's frame, imagine that you are pushing the horse's head and neck away from you with your hands, while riding forward into that connection.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3411
"One of the goals of dressage is to recreate the natural beauty of the horse’s gaits under the rider, so that the horse moves as beautifully under the weight of the rider as he does at liberty. In order to achieve this, the swinging of the horse’s
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3410
"It's important that the rider doesn't disturb the horse – leaning this way or that – and that is the same with this pulling and pushing. You give a half halt, but half halt is not just pull back and then let go. First of all you
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3409
If a horse is bracing against your hand, you don't fix the problem in your hand. You fix it in the horse's body.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3408
"What goes on in your brain, goes down through the rein." ~ Andrew Hoy
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3407
Many horses think of walk time as "break" time. If you want to ensure that you get good scores on your walk work, you have to convince your horse otherwise in your daily work.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3406
"You MUST stop looking at the size of the fence and answer the question. Two enormous tables on a bending line may be what you see, but the question could be going away from home and rather than be a bending line, it could be a slice with the
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3405
When riding any lateral movement, keep your eyes pointed to the spot that you want your horse to go to.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3404
When you realize that you are meeting a jump on a half stride, it can be challenging to keep a calm, clear head! Give yourself something constructive to think about. Tell yourself to just stay still and keep riding your horse's hind legs all the way until the
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3403
If your horse finds lateral exercises more difficult in one direction vs the other (as many do), then they are not truly straight, or evenly laterally supple.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3402
The horse's jaw unlocks when their back muscles relax and begin to swing with the movement. Attempting to "work" the horse's jaw when it feels tight is addressing the wrong end of the horse.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3401
Circles, serpentines, and basic lateral work offer the best opportunities to work on increasing the horse's understanding and acceptance of the rider's leg aids.