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

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

The extended walk is an exercise that appears in dressage tests from British Dressage Medium level upward. In some dressage ...

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How to Ride Extended Walk

Extended canter is a movement that appears in dressage tests at Medium level (UK) and Third level (US) and above. ...

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How to Ride Extended Canter

One of the most spectacular and impressive movements in dressage is the extended trot. If you’re lucky, your horse will ...

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How to Ride Extended Trot

A judge’s remark that’s often seen on dressage score sheets is that the canter “needs more jump.” But what does ...

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How to Create More Jump in the Canter