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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3409
If a horse is bracing against your hand, you don't fix the problem in your hand. You fix it in the horse's body.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3408
"What goes on in your brain, goes down through the rein." ~ Andrew Hoy
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3407
Many horses think of walk time as "break" time. If you want to ensure that you get good scores on your walk work, you have to convince your horse otherwise in your daily work.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3406
"You MUST stop looking at the size of the fence and answer the question. Two enormous tables on a bending line may be what you see, but the question could be going away from home and rather than be a bending line, it could be a slice with the
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3405
When riding any lateral movement, keep your eyes pointed to the spot that you want your horse to go to.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3404
When you realize that you are meeting a jump on a half stride, it can be challenging to keep a calm, clear head! Give yourself something constructive to think about. Tell yourself to just stay still and keep riding your horse's hind legs all the way until the
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3403
If your horse finds lateral exercises more difficult in one direction vs the other (as many do), then they are not truly straight, or evenly laterally supple.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3402
The horse's jaw unlocks when their back muscles relax and begin to swing with the movement. Attempting to "work" the horse's jaw when it feels tight is addressing the wrong end of the horse.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3401
Circles, serpentines, and basic lateral work offer the best opportunities to work on increasing the horse's understanding and acceptance of the rider's leg aids.
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3400
"The legs bring the horse to the seat, and the seat brings the horse to the hands. When the teacher says 'shorten the reins' it needs to be translated into: 'engage the hind legs, sit on them, and then take the slack out of the reins&
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3399
"I've always been a stickler on saddles. I see a lot of saddles that sit on the side of the horse's back, and if you think about it you are fighting against the movement in one direction or the other, if the saddle doesn’t
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Tip/Quote of the Day # 3398
The stirrup bar placement on your saddle can make or break your position when riding. Make sure you choose a saddle that will allow you to be in balance.