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  • How to Stop Your Horse From Resting a Hind Leg in Halt how to dressage
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    How to Stop Your Horse From Resting a Hind Leg in Halt

    By How To Dressage
    January 14, 2019
    Some dressage tests have as many as three halts included in the prescribed exercises; many have two. And of course, every dressage test has ...
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  • How to Stop Your Horse's Poll From Getting Too Low How to dressage
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    How to Stop Your Horse’s Poll From Getting Too Low

    By How To Dressage
    July 30, 2018
    A comment that you may sometimes see on your dressage score sheets is ‘poll too low’ or ‘poll dropping’. An unsteady frame of this ...
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  • How to Encourage Your Horse to Listen More how to dressage
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    How to Encourage Your Horse to Listen More

    By How To Dressage
    July 7, 2018
    A common problem faced by dressage riders is that of losing their horse’s attention. This can be particularly problematic in the competition environment and ...
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  • How to Stop Your Horse From Falling In how to dressage
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    How to Stop Your Horse From Falling In

    By How To Dressage
    June 16, 2018
    A comment that’s frequently seen on dressage test score sheets is, ‘falling in’. This refers to the horse that loses his balance whilst negotiating ...
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  • How to Ride a Horse That is Sensitive to the Leg and Rushes how to dressage
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    How to Ride a Horse That is Sensitive to the Leg and Rushes

    By How To Dressage
    June 5, 2018
    Although it is desirable and indeed necessary for a dressage horse to work forwards from the rider’s leg, problems can arise when the horse ...
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  • How to Keep Your Horse Straight how to dressage
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    How to Keep Your Horse Straight

    By How To Dressage
    May 31, 2018
    Straightness is included in the dressage rider’s schooling framework; the scales of training. Related Read: Why ALL Dressage Riders Need to Know The Scales of ...
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  • How to Stop Your Horse Snatching at the Reins how to dressage
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    How to Stop Your Horse Snatching at the Reins

    By How To Dressage
    May 19, 2018
    When the horse snatches at the reins, this can be quite infuriating to the rider! If it happens in a dressage test, it will ...
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  • How to Encourage Your Horse to Stretch how to dressage
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    How to Encourage Your Horse to Stretch

    By How To Dressage
    May 11, 2018
    One of the key scales of training for dressage horses is suppleness.  The term refers to the horse’s willingness to work over his back ...
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  • How to Stop Your Horse Coming Against the Bit How To Dressage
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    How to Stop Your Horse Coming Against the Bit

    By How To Dressage
    April 22, 2018
    On British Dressage sheets under the collective mark for ‘Submission’, you will see that the directive makes reference to the ‘elasticity of the contact’. ...
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  • How to Improve Your Horse's Confidence How To dressage
    Dressage Troubleshooting

    How to Improve Your Horse’s Confidence

    By How To Dressage
    April 18, 2018
    Confidence and relaxation are very important if you and your horse are to present a happy and harmonious partnership in the dressage arena. Unfortunately, ...
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  • How to Take Care of Your Horse's Tack to Ensure it Lasts

    How to Take Care of Your Horse’s Tack to Ensure it Lasts

    By How To Dressage
    February 18, 2019
  • How to Structure a Dressage Training Plan for Your Horse

    How to Structure a Dressage Training Plan for Your Horse

    By How To Dressage
    February 13, 2019
  • How Long Should You Ride Your Horse For how to dressage

    How Long Should You Ride Your Horse For?

    By How To Dressage
    February 9, 2019
  • What to do if You Make a Mistake During a Dressage Test

    What to do if You Make a Mistake During a Dressage Test

    By How To Dressage
    February 4, 2019
  • How to Train Your Horse's Mane to Lay on the Correct Side dressage

    How to Train Your Horse’s Mane to Lay on the Correct Side

    By How To Dressage
    January 31, 2019
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    The Scales of Training: Scale 1 – Rhythm

    By How To Dressage
    February 9, 2018
  • The Scales of Training: Scale 4 – Impulsion

    By How To Dressage
    February 9, 2018
  • How to Take Care of Your Horse's Tack to Ensure it Lasts

    How to Take Care of Your Horse’s Tack to Ensure it Lasts

    By How To Dressage
    February 18, 2019
  • The Scales of Training Contact How To Dressage

    The Scales of Training: Scale 3 – Contact

    By How To Dressage
    February 9, 2018
  • The Scales of Training Straightness How To Dressage

    The Scales of Training: Scale 5 – Straightness

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    February 9, 2018

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  • Dressage to music has hit the headlines in recent years.

But it’s not just something for the top riders, anyone can take part in dressage to music no matter what level they are working at.

Dressage to music isn’t just fun, it can also help your overall performance.

Riding to a regular music beat can help you maintain a regular rhythm, and there’s no doubt having a soundtrack can help relax both horse and rider.

So, for those of you who are keen to have a go, visit our blog (HowToDressage.com) for  seven steps to get you started in dressage to music.

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New people to the sport are often ledt a bit confused as to how the scoring works in dressage. And consequently, how that score is then turned into penalties for eventing.

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  • Polework can be a great way of improving your horse’s general way of going, as well as adding variety and fun to his work routine.

Although poles are not a substitute for correct and systematic schooling, they do make a very useful addition to your training armory.

To find out how to use poles to improve your horse's way of going, check out our latest blog post on HowToDressage.com

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