Communicate and Guide Your Horse with Better Use of Your Legs
…beginning or novice riders from expert or elite riders is the ability to use the scale appropriately and immediately, to sense a change coming (a resistance, a spook) and prevent…
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Equitation for Adults
…Of course, western riders ride with a little longer stirrup. Jumpers and hunt seat riders prefer a short stirrup that gets them out of the saddle over a fence, and…
Grover-Dodge, Portwood, and Area II Take Eventing Gold Medals at the 2015 Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North, Para-Dressage Crowns Freestyle Medalists
July 20, 2015–The Adequan/FEI North American Junior & Young Rider Championships presented by Gotham North (NAJYRC) came to a close on Sunday at the Kentucky Horse Park with the awarding…
How To Save The Preliminary Three-Day Event
…handful of U.S. organizers held on, grimly vowing to continue to hold preliminary three-day events and supported by a cadre of riders and trainers and leaders of the sport. But…
Desert Circuit VII Ends With a Thrilling Weekend of Competition Featuring the $50,000 Card Flex Grand Prix
March 14, 2016 – The curtain closed on Week VII of the HITS Desert Circuit as Grand Prix riders took a final weekend of competition to prepare for the AIG $1…
Shoulder-In & Shoulder-Fore
…and the rider to the shoulder-in. In shoulder-fore, the rider displaces the horse’s front end slightly to the inside, with the result that the horse’s inside fore travels slightly inside,…
Better Riding Wins
…the riders in the top echelon, riders that can do a credible job with most any horse they encounter. We’re talking about the other 90 percent of us who need…
Is There An App For That’
…that you have to be three kinds of riders?a dressage rider, a cross-country rider and a show jumping rider. It is enticing to think of being able to touch the…
An Overview of Varsity Equestrian Competition
The NCAA varsity equestrian format is designed as “head-to-head.” So if Texas Christian University (TCU) is riding against the University of Georgia, one rider from TCU and one rider from…
Stress Rx
…to help you see how they fit into your schedule, and comments from real riders. Some may work for you better than others, but you can customize them to fit…