Although it doesn’t appear in dressage tests, the counter shoulder-in is a very useful training exercise that helps develop lateral ...

When you begin riding at British Dressage medium level and above, some dressage tests require you to enter the arena ...

From British Dressage Elementary level and upward, most dressage tests contain a range of lateral movements, such as leg-yield, half-pass, ...

What’s the movement that is demanded more than any other in dressage tests at every level? Circles? Although that’s what ...

Dressage tests from British Dressage (BD) Preliminary level upward contain certain exercises that require you to ride a 15-meter circle. ...

If you’re new to the world of dressage, you may have heard the terms shoulder-fore and shoulder-in mentioned both in ...

Transitions are required in every dressage test throughout the levels and are something that you should be using daily in ...

Haunches-out is more usually referred to as ‘renvers’. Unlike leg-yield, shoulder-in, travers, and half-pass, renvers is a lateral exercise that ...

Transitions are included in every dressage test right up to Grand Prix. You should also use transitions during all your ...

As you progress through the dressage levels, you’ll encounter the canter to walk transition. Canter to walk is used when ...