There are three different approaches to riding a bending line: the direct track, the natural track, and the outside track. Which track you choose really depends on a great number of variables.

The demands of balancing family life, a career, and riding are a practice in time management for most amateur riders. These four share how they manage to succeed in and out of the ring, and why they chose not to 'go pro'.

In an industry increasingly enamoured with full-service facilities and the endless pursuit of red ribbons and points, mastering the basics of horsemanship gives the students of long-established facilities the building blocks to lead the industry into the future.

Riding well is the ability to use aids independently that together function to create a solid and effective position.

Lisa Marie Fergusson has chosen to use her brushes with adversity to spur her on to greater heights

Enjoying the roller-coaster ride

This underrated movement, critical to equitation classes and important in everyday training, is not an exercise of strength, but rather accuracy of the aids.

From summer camp to grand prix ring.

Riding without stirrups is one exercise that will significantly improve your riding ability. Avoided by many due to its tendency to make even the fittest athlete sweat and be sore the next day, it is one whose payoff is worth tenfold what you are willing to endure.

Whether you call them caulks, studs or corks, these devices that are driven or screwed into horseshoes can provided traction.