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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1275

The more stable you are able to keep your outside rein connection, the more quickly your horse will learn to accept it. Stable, yet elastic... like a bungee cord.

Tip/Quote of the Day # 1274

"You do not need much skill to maintain a good position... if your horse is not moving." ~ Jimmy Wofford

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1273

Ask, insist (if necessary,) and then reward.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1272

"It's the rider's job to make his horse sensitive enough to anticipate half halts, for it is the anticipation factor that makes horse and rider harmonious. The use of the horse's anticipation should work greatly to your advantage in daily training and in

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1271

The more you keep your horse busy with lots of little demands, like mini transitions within the gait, changes of bend, spirals, etc, the more your horse will learn to focus on you and what you might ask for next.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1270

You may need to "do whatever you need to do" to get things done sometimes in competition, but in practice you should aim to always do things the right way, with no shortcuts.

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1269

"It's very rare to find a horse who has the bravery and heart to do what is required of him in eventing's cross-country phase and who has the careful aspect we look for in the show-jumping ring." ~ Katie Monahan Prudent

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1268

"I totally disapprove of sitting behind the vertical, pushing and shoving. The rider always has to follow the horse's movement. If the calves are too far forward, the rider is unable to bring the horse under the centre of gravity." ~ Ingrid Klimke

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1267

"Contact doesn't only refer to the hands, reins, and bit, but to the whole rider. A rider must give the horse contact through his entire seat. This means that his legs must lay gently against the horse's body, his seat must be balanced and supple,

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1266

From Facebook fan Clarissa Groesbeek ~ "Your job is to ride to the base of the fence, your horse's job is to jump it."

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1265

From Facebook fan Kathi Knox Hammond ~ "If I look AHEAD toward where I want to end up, and quit looking down and worrying about whether I have enough bend and am angled correctly, things kind of work together on their own. I finally 'get' that looking down

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Tip/Quote of the Day # 1264

"It is such a huge delight for me to watch a horse of any level going with real quality—willing and happy, through in the back, at ease in their work, light in the rein as a result of their way of going rather than a response to the

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