You should never get to a point where you can take anything for granted – not your position, your horse, or the level you jump at.
Training
How to avoid bucking and playing on course, with Laura Tidball Balisky.
Randy Roy is a senior international judge, course designer and author. He owns and operates Hunters Glen Show Stable in King, ON, with his daughter, Ryan Roy.
Coach Sally Sainsbury sets up some simple yet effective exercises for eventers (or anyone who jumps) to practice in the off-season.
Rather than going stir-crazy in the arena this winter, get out of the saddle and try these in-hand groundwork exercises. Hyde Moffatt tells how.
How would Randy Roy explain to an inexperienced onlooker (or bill-paying parent) what he is looking for in a hunter round?
Rather than just letting your horse run endless circles around you, use your lungeing sessions as a training tool.
Although the concept seems simple enough, straightness is something many riders struggle to achieve. Leslie Reid describes some simple lateral exercises that can improve straightness.
There are many different varieties of 'ear stuffies,' but the desired effect is to muffle the sensory reaction to noises that cause a horse to spook.
Two-time Olympian Jacquie Brooks walks riders through half-steps, an important building block in a horse's education for the piaffe and passage, and the transitions between the two.
