The bend is approaching and you begin preparing both you and your horse to ride straight and accurately through the turn. However, as you ‘shift’ your seat bones into ‘position…
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If you're thinking of tackling some working hunter classes this season, find out how to wow the judges
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Might as well face it, you're addicted to horses. If perusing the H&H website wasn't enough of a giveaway, here are further signs you are quite probably a horse nut
I am always looking for crafts that will inspire imagination. My children have stick horses, and you would think that they were real horses the way they ride them around. I hope to never forget th…
I need this bike. Via Bem Legaus
Does your horse find doing things on one rein a lot easier than on the other? Or perhaps you’ve noticed ‘something’ as you round a corner or bend? Maybe even as you ask for a la…
Jump courses are set with specific distances between the fences in the lines, and you are expected to get a certain number of strides within...
With Sarah Bradley - “Straightness refers to how the horse positions his body, and his ability to use both sides of his body evenly, providing even propulsion from both hind legs and carrying even weight on both front legs. It's about the rider’s ability to place the horse’s body on the line the rider wishes to travel. A horse is straight when the bird’s eye view shows the horse’s spine as being directly on the line of travel. Thus, a horse on a circle is ‘straight’ when it compresses the inside of its body and lengthens the outside, so that its spine follows the circle.”
Sometimes you can't ride. Sometimes you don't want to. Here are 31 fun and useful things you can do with your horse - other than riding.
What this episode is all about & how it can help you:- Sitting straight in the saddle Allowing your legs to ‘drape’ Understanding an active aid versus an inactive one Supporting your horse when…
Courtney Due of the JustJump3Day blog recently posted her own list of signs that you may suffer from the eventing bug. Courtney graciously agreed to let us reprint her post here on EN, so we
Sometimes you can't ride. Sometimes you don't want to. Here are 31 fun and useful things you can do with your horse - other than riding.
The fall is a time of lovely colours, family get-togethers and winding down the busy show season. However, fall is often a time of increased colic calls to veterinarians. While not all colic can be prevented, paying attention to your management of the horse can go a long way to decrease the incidence, and the suffering of episodes.
Who hasn’t struggled with walk-to-canter transitions sometime in his or her riding life? While our earliest engagements with walk-to-faster-FASTER-FASTER trots can be owed to short legs, lack…
Learn the steps to ride this movement that appears in First Level Test 3.
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