Dressage Horse
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Improve Your Dressage Score
You trot down center line, ride the pattern of your dressage test, and soon receive your score. Your placing in…
Correcting Leg-Yield Errors with Your Horse
Last month I discussed how the leg-yield is a useful suppling and training tool for both horse and rider, how…
Improve Your Horse’s Leg-Yield
A useful training tool for both horse and rider, the leg-yield while horse riding supples the horse through his hips,…
Meet the Incredible Lipizzan Horse
During Medieval times, a horse’s main job was to carry men into battle during wartime and to pull carriages during…
Your Horse Life: A New Beginner
Trying a new riding discipline (dressage) takes an experienced equestrian back to square one. Like many kids, I spent my…
Your Horse Life: Dressage Sabbatical
Read about Rose Caslar's dressage sabbatical. By Rose Caslar Rose Caslar, an experienced rider and trainer, arrives for her year-long…
My Horse Rushes Through Dressage Tests
Q: I receive comments on my dressage tests indicating that my horse is too rushed. How do I fix his…
Fit Your Horse’s Noseband for Dressage
Q: I am new to riding dressage, but am wondering how to adjust the noseband. Should it be tight or…
Trail Riding for Dressage Horses
Riding outside most often proves to be one of the surest accelerants of dressage training. First, there is no…
Lazy Dressage Horse
Q: I do dressage with my very lazy, thick-skinned Friesian. He doesn’t respect my leg or whip. What can I…