Dressage Troubleshooting
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How to Improve Your Horse’s Confidence
Confidence and relaxation are very important if you and your horse are to present a happy and harmonious partnership in the dressage arena. Unfortunately, ... -
How to Improve Your Horse’s Balance
Do you wonder why you need to improve your horse’s balance? Read on to find out why this is an important part of riding, ... -
How to Keep Your Horse Balanced When Cantering Across a Diagonal
The next dressage test you are planning to ride requires you to canter across the diagonal – but are you sure you can keep ... -
How to Teach Your Horse to Stand Still
An important element of the halt exercise in dressage tests is ‘immobility’. Immobility means that your horse should remain perfectly still, whilst remaining on ... -
How to Get Your Horse In Front of the Leg
A horse that is not working forward from the rider’s leg is often described as not being, ‘in front of the leg’. Having your ... -
How to Work Your Horse Long and Low
Working your horse ‘long and low’ refers to a technique that is used by dressage riders to develop their horse’s relaxation, suppleness and willingness ... -
How to Get Your Horse off His Forehand
The judge’s comment, ‘on the forehand’ is often seen on dressage test sheets. But what does ‘on the forehand’ mean, and how do you ... -
How to Sharpen up a Lazy Horse
Not every horse is as enthusiastic about dressage as their rider, and although the judge is looking for relaxation and calmness in the horse’s ... -
How to Encourage Your Horse to be More Submissive
What do we mean by ‘submission’? Let’s start by looking at the psychology of submission in the horse’s natural environment: in the wild herd. ... -
How to Stop Your Horse From Leaning on the Bit
Leaning on the bit is the common description for any horse that puts an undue amount of his own weight on the bit whilst ...
