All riders who are preparing for a dressage test, or are training their horses at home, will not be unaccustomed ...

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How to Ride From Your Inside Leg to Your Outside Rein

If you’re buying a young horse for dressage, there’s a lot to think about! In this in-depth, detailed guide, we ...

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How to Buy and Train the Young Dressage Horse

Developing engagement is essential if you want to progress up the dressage levels, and engagement is a term that’s often ...

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How to Increase Your Horse’s Engagement

You might have noticed the directive, “Freedom of the shoulders,” referenced in certain exercises on your dressage score sheet. In ...

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How to Free Your Horse’s Shoulders

You may have heard the term “cadence” mentioned when describing the way in which a dressage horse moves. So, what ...

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How to Create Cadence in the Dressage Horse

It’s well-known that humans experience depression and times when they have “the blues,” but what about your dressage horse? Well, ...

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How to Recognize an Unhappy Dressage Horse

When you read the comment, “Needs more activity” on your dressage sheet, what does that mean? Why is an active ...

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How to Activate Your Horse’s Hind Legs

You may have noticed the term “fluency” mentioned in the directives on your dressage score sheets. Although it’s a crucial ...

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How to Improve Fluency

Transitions are the glue that holds the dressage horse’s performance together, and that’s why every dressage test contains so many! ...

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How to Improve Your Transitions

No matter how clear and invisible your riding aids are, your horse won’t understand what you want if you get ...

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How to Correctly Time Your Aids