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Horse Riding Disciplines

Showing A-Circuit Hunters

If you find yourself longing to compete at national shows, here are four tips that the A-circuit riders and trainers…

22 years ago


Teach Your Horse to Pivot

Think pivots are just fancy reining maneuvers too difficult for the likes of you? Think again. Picture yourself trail riding…

22 years ago

Perfect Your Haunches-In

Haunches-in (or travers) is the most advanced way to teach your horse inside bend. For a correct haunches-in, your horse…

22 years ago

Is Your Yearling a Longeline Candidate?

The yearling longeline class provides a showcase for up-and-coming English and western pleasure horses and an opportunity for the owners…

22 years ago

Reining: Fun, Fast and Challenging

"I don't just do it for the money," chuckles Mike Flarida, a top National Reining Horse Association competitor. Flarida says that…

23 years ago

Show-Ring Turnout

You ride into the arena and look around you, taking in all the beautiful western pleasure horses groomed and saddled…

23 years ago

Cavalletti for Dressage and Jumping

Jenny knew she was pretty lucky to be able to school her young chestnut gelding during the winter months in…

23 years ago

American Saddlebred Gaits

They are among the flashiest horses in the flashiest classes — the American Saddlebred horses in the three- and five-gaited…

23 years ago

Longe Away Tension

Stiffness in the saddle is one of the biggest hidden handicaps to good riding — not the obvious stiffness that…

23 years ago

Walk-to-Lope Transitions

A smooth, seamless walk-to-lope transition isn't just a must in the show pen. A horse that can easily strike off without…

24 years ago