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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Dk44LzUNL/ Any good for anyone?

WOW @Ambers Echo what an interesting topic and conversation you have created. I ride my youngster in a similar contact to how you are...

You don't need to skid to a halt as in sliding halt, I don't do that My horse can stop without the sliding part, just with hinds in...

Where is HOPE show?

Sounds like an ideal day!! I finally opted to join VHS rather than SSADL (it was cheaper and waaaaay more shows with classes i can do...

I have a doma vaquera stallion The thing is everything i try with him comes naturally, since he matured, he was started and worked in...

I've been following this thread with interest and there has been something niggling at me that I've struggled to put into words. I'm...

The ability to contain and influence the power and push from behind. And if ‘you’ want to go up the levels in a competitive sense you...

Yes, a horse can absolutely push from behind with a drape in the rein/very light contact. It is clearly demonstrated in good Western...

That looks great! Joe does keep talking about the horse finding the sweet spot. Maybe that's what he means? I am happy with how Myka...

Yes, mine do the same! We screwed a garden shed on railway sleepers so same idea as the above breeze block suggestion to give a little...

My issue is not so much that she couldn't learn to be softer, it's that she did well being ridden as seen in the pics. And also that...

It doesn't feature in more advanced tests. Which I believe is a mistake, people like Kyra Kirkland and Carl Hester are asking for give...

Thanks so much for the replies. I’m learning how much I still have to learn! To my limited eye, test riding and true principles of...

Your posts are always so interesting. I think we can get trapped (particularly in dressage) in the logical fallacy that the horse isn't...