Tag: Training

https://youtu.be/zKu-FIclsw0 This excerpt is from the USDF video Showing Your Sport Horse In-Hand and is intended to assist young horse owners with preparing their horses...

By Ingrid Henry This article won the 2018 GMO Newsletter Award in general-interest for GMOs with 175-499 members. It first appeared in the July 2018...

USDF wants to hear from you! As you’ve advanced through your dressage training, has there been a seemingly simple movement or sequence that you...

https://youtu.be/QnmCdxQUfnA Stretch circles are commonly seen in dressage tests, and many horses and riders struggle with this movement. Watch as Stephen Clarke walks us through...

https://youtu.be/iIRIx03YgjU Lilo Fore discusses why it is important to be able to adjust your horse within the gaits. This video was filmed at the 2016 Adequan/USDF...

https://youtu.be/sISWfvG0ZHk Johann Hinnemann notes that transitions are the most asked exercise in a dressage test, every exercise is connected by a transition, which is why...

https://youtu.be/tgwE8oupw_4 Sometimes a horse will lose his balance in the turns when he has lost the bend going into the corner. Watch Stephen Clarke's suggestion...

https://youtu.be/WSEs52ik_2s One of the most common questions dressage riders have is regarding correct carriage and frame. Stephen Clarke acknowledges that while this is the...

https://youtu.be/yHrMgi0bo68 Stephen Clarke describes the ideal rein contact with the horse as being a forward feeling contact, rather than a backwards holding contact. This excerpt was...

https://youtu.be/6ogMIGopkeE Johann Hinnemann talks about why being very conscious of riding correct 20-meter circles leads is so important. This excerpt was filmed at the January 2015...