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How to Stop Your Horse From Anticipating
If your horse begins to anticipate what you want him to do, that can lose you lots of marks in dressage tests. But what ... -
How to Ride a Good Halt-Canter Transition
Although a halt to canter transition is not required in dressage tests, it can be a very useful schooling exercise that can help to ... -
How to Stop Your Horse Fidgeting in Halt
There is at least one halt in all dressage tests, and in some, there can be as many as three. So, it’s essential that ... -
How to Ride a Good Walk-Trot Transition
Good transitions are a fundamental element of dressage riding and form a major part of all dressage tests, whatever level you’re riding at. The ... -
How to Develop Feel
‘Feel’ is a crucial element of the dressage rider’s development and is something that the world’s greatest riders possess in abundance. But what is ... -
How to Use the Dressage Scales of Training Pyramid
If you’re just beginning your journey into the world of dressage, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the Dressage Scales of Training Pyramid. The ... -
How to Ride Counter Shoulder-In
Although it doesn’t appear in dressage tests, the counter shoulder-in is a very useful training exercise that helps develop lateral suppleness and the horse’s ... -
How to Ride Half-Steps
When your horse is working at a medium/advanced medium level, you’ll probably be thinking about teaching him advanced exercises such as piaffe and passage. ... -
How to Increase Your Horse’s Engagement
Developing engagement is essential if you want to progress up the dressage levels, and engagement is a term that’s often used by judges on ... -
How to Ride a Good Canter-Halt Transition
When you begin riding at British Dressage medium level and above, some dressage tests require you to enter the arena in collected canter and ...
