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Agree with this and well put. Also agree with others who have said that some of the wrinkles are ironed out as you go up the levels. My very ordinary horse is out at PSG/Inter1 and for sure if you can do a clear round at that level, the fact of performing the difficult movements properly will...

Agree with Halfstep, especially in relation to schoolmasters. We have been asked by someone on the same yard, who can't sit to the trot or execute a direct canter transition, to have a lesson on our horse (which is working GP and competing PSG). This novice rider says she wants to feel half...

Good thread - if a little "trainer-bashing". No-one has mentioned an important point, which is that every rider and every horse has a personal limit. No-one has a bottomless bucket of talent which they just need a good trainer to tap into for unlimited success all the way through the levels...

I'm following HHO, BE and Burghley on Twitter and can't see tweets re trot up on any of them. Is it me?:mad:

Is she turned out alone or with others? If she is turned out with others it may be that there has been a change in the pecking order - mares are very sensitive to this and to any other changes in the herd. Try limiting her turnout, turn her out alone and more work not less. (Assuming the vet...

You are not riding at medium level if you have to rise to the trot.

It's like the driving test - you do it according to the book on the day and then never again after that, but you do what you have to do to pass. Your competition record is totally irrelevant and if you go in for a BHS exam thinking that because you've got good competition results all will be...

My horse has a ligment injury and I have read very good reports about this treatment. Anyone got any recent experiences? Does anyone have any equipment to sell or hire out?

IME this is fairly standard practice eventing. Going to dressage winter finals was a revelation - all the nice ladies tucked up in bed by 9 and lights out all around shortly after!

Angle - thank you for explaining the endowment effect - I always wondered why people would buy a horse, do nothing with it for a few years, then believe that they would get double what they paid back when they sold it. This happened to us in reverse a few years ago with an event horse. When we...

At Elem you are beginning to show the basics of collection and lateral work, direct transitions, quicker changes of rein, direction, pace etc. You need to be more balanced and more connected as you are looking ahead to medium work where you will have to demonstrate a fully independent seat (all...

Its a try-on. You have no idea whether this incident actually happened or if it did happen, whether your mare's response was as they say - you never experienced her rearing. Either politely bat them off or, if you are concerned, then offer to go over and ride her out yourself to understand...

TheTrainer wore Petrie boots for years and swore by them, but he's a man and I don't know if that makes a difference. I love my Regents but they are straight cut at the top so more GP than dressagey - very comfortable and I can wear them all day.

Goodness Booboos, that's quite an interpretation of what I said. Perhaps you might like to read what's there, not what's not there?

You might like this -not about saddles, but its en point.... http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6993811/dressage-queen