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The rider position too. The top picture shows a gentle, comfortable seat. The second I'm not sure she's even 'seating on her bottom' 😳...

Classical dressage is about developing the strength and balance in the horse over many years until the poll is up (genuinely up, not...

Thanks sbloom that helps a bit. My mare used to piaffe at the gate if she wasn’t bought in first and did passage if she got really...

Do you need to use the whip to ask them to lift their feet in any other pace? Ultimate collection means the trot becomes shorter in...

I understand about balance but how do you explain to the horse he needs to lift his feet up in both piaffe and passage if you don’t use...

As someone put it on fb, "it's about time that this industry was required to explain just what is going on".

It certainly revolves around leg activation rather than a sustained shift in balance and increase in amplitude within collection. From...

You hit the horse till it lifts it's legs higher As someone who has never trained a passage I WILL NOT SPECULATE (ahem) but I would be...

I'm no advanced rider but it seems to me to simply be that if you keep asking for more and more range of motion but leave the body in a...

I dont/cant (dont want to) imagine how you'd train that movement.

Its preferable for the jockey to be the exact weight the horse is allocated. Human weight is deemed to be easier to carry than lead...

Oh thank you this makes sense. The more I learn the more I dislike racing, and I wasn't a fan to begin with. Thank you to those...

They get more rides that way. No point weighing 9st if you want to be a flat jockey - you'd be sat at home, watching the racing on the...

Yes, sorry, I wasnt clear enough, the weight is the combination of jockey, saddle and lead if necessary.

https://www.thejockeyclub.co.uk/the-racing/racing-explained/jockeys/weighing-in/ Each horse in a race has to carry a certain amount of...