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Guest Blog Post # 42: "I'm Melting!" by the great Bill Woods!
It's 20 years ago. I "sort of " know how to ride. (At that point I'd already been doing it for almost 30 years and ridden I-1.) I'm having a lesson with Maj. Lindgren. The horse—a lower level one—is on
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Discussion # 98: Let's talk about the "electric butt" syndrome!
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An Exercise to Increase Pushing Power Behind, and Improve the Quality of Your Lengthened, Medium, and Extended Gaits
This exercise is a great way to improve your pushing power behind - and therefore the quality of your lengthened, medium, & extended gaits. It teaches the horse to stay "sitting" on their hocks, for a better uphill balance while moving more powerfully, leading to more quality collection.
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Question # 232: My OTTB has trouble with anxiety, grabs the bit and makes upward transitions on his own. When is it appropriate to change bits? (Anonymous)
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Photo # 62: This is Rachel!
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Photo # 61: Melanie would like a conformation critique for her horse!
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Question # 231: What I am struggling with is refusals, mostly confidence issues, spooking at fillers etc. I have found speed can sometimes be our friend, it looks out of control but the only times we have gone clear are when he's speeding!!!
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Question # 230: I recently got a new horse due to my other being not well suited for me (rush fences, run like crazy, and not calm down.) I was learning eventing and he thought he knew it all.. and would pick up on my nervousness and get all sorts of wou
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Photo # 60: This is Suzanne on her trainer's Dutch Warmblood Quarter Pony cross!
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Jocelyn's Blog Post # 4
You Know How to Trot, Don't you? Recently, I found myself cantering sideways, downhill, looking into a gnarled patch of brush creeping closer by the moment. In the background, I could hear Denny yelling at me, in that thought piercing, instant tone that anyone who has ridden with
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Guest Blog Post # 41: "Put De Posit Here, Not Dere" by Bill Woods
Put De Posit Here, Not Dere Bill Steinkraus was a show jumping icon of the 1960s and winner of the individual gold medal in that discipline on Snowbound at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At a clinic I attended years ago, he was speaking of schooling a hot horse that