These days, dressage horses are selected and purposely bred for their paces, and the better their natural paces, the higher ...

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How to Improve Your Horse’s Paces

Have you heard of DAP or Diagonal Advanced Placement? Many dressage riders are not familiar with the term. However, DAP ...

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How to Identify Diagonal Advanced Placement (DAP)

Flying changes are one movement that every aspiring dressage rider wants to teach their horse. However, an unwanted change of ...

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How to Stop Your Horse From Changing Canter Leads

The ultimate goal of most dressage riders is to ride at the advanced level, perhaps one day entering down the ...

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How to Piaffe

All dressage enthusiasts dream of one day being able to perform the advanced movements with their horses. One particular variant ...

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How to Passage

When you begin riding dressage tests from British Dressage Preliminary level onwards, you will be asked to show “working canter.” ...

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How to Ride Working Canter

Working trot is included in all dressage tests from the very basic Training and Introductory levels right through to First ...

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How to Ride Working Trot

The walk is probably the most difficult pace to present in a dressage test, largely because there is so much ...

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How to Ride Medium Walk

Rhythm is the first of the dressage Scales of Training and is the most important of the Scales. If your ...

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How to Get a Good Rhythm

In the lower level tests, you will ride in working trot, showing a few steps of lengthened trot strides and ...

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How to Ride Collected Trot