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Teaching feel to a rider is hard. Very hard. Teaching the proper mechanics of position is also hard, but not as hard. And since trainers have to teach you something because “just ride better” frankly doesn’t seem to cut it for most people, it makes sense to start with equitation and hope that somewhere along the Continued
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Amanda Derbyshire (GBR) had a plan for the 2019 winter season. Start slow. Build her horses to the end of the 12-week Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF) marathon. And aim for a spot on Nations Cup teams in the summer. Her results in the ring over the past six days suggest she’s on precisely track. Last Continued
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So often, whatever riding discipline we favor, we are looking for that “missing piece” or “secret ingredient” that will help our horses go better, be more willing, stay sounder, longer. From early in her career, popular riding coach and motivational speaker Jane Savoie espoused the importance of basic dressage work for all horses, for all Continued
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They say that there are two kinds of people in life—lumpers and splitters.* Lumpers like to put everything into one box. So, to a lumper, any time that a horse opens his skin, it is just a cut, a wound, a laceration, or a boo-boo, or something like that. Splitters like to break everything into Continued
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With stops in Paris, Hong Kong and New York, the Longines Masters Series is bucket list material for any show jumping fan. This year, the Series is upping its FOMO factor by 25%. A fourth leg of the Longines Masters Series has been introduced for the 2019 season in Lausanne, Switzerland. From June 20 to 23, the world’s Continued
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The HITS Million Grand Prix Series is the jewel in the Horse Shows in the Sun (HITS) crown. Three events across the USA. Three unique million dollar grand prix classes. Three chances to claim one of the biggests purses in show jumping. As of Sunday, USA’s Beezie Madden has won all of them. And it Continued
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