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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2560
A rider's hands can only be as good as the arms and seat they belong to.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2559
A good rider is a master at self control.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2558
When you have established a good contact, your horse can feel your thoughts transmitted through the reins.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2557
When working with a horse that does not have a great natural lengthening, make sure that you don't ask for too much too soon. Compare this to a singer who is training their vocal cords… they gradually expand their vocal range until they hit their limit. This helps
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2556
A good halt is square because it was a good, balanced, well ridden halt. Not because the rider has taught the horse the "trick" of squaring up after an unbalanced halt.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2555
If you would like a calm, attentive horse, you must first be a calm, attentive human.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2554
The Dressage horse is supposed to be (and look like!) a "happy athlete". If the horse does not look happy in his work, that work is probably not correct.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2553
"Never waste a transition." ~ Ralph Hill
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2552
Let the turn into the obstacle be your half halt.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2551
"The horse's back is like a bridge that carries him and you, and the neck completes the bridge. All the energy created by going forward from the hindquarters to the bridle makes your horse's back strong and develops those muscles that create the bridge. Without
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2550
"If you aren't sure [when jumping], ride forward, because being under paced is not only harder for the horse, it can make the fences dangerous at the higher levels... Fences are made to be taken at a certain speed, not much more and certainly no less."
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 2549
The faster you are going on cross country, the more you must generally think of maintaining a contact with your horse's mouth on the takeoff of a jump. No big crest releases!