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Finding Your Dressage Leg

New dressage riders who arbitrarily lengthen their leathers end up riding "heels up/toes down" or with their legs thrown forward, bracing against their stirrups. Those who have tried to stretch...

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Dressage

Everything you need to know about the elegant sport of dressage, to interviews with top riders and trainers, as well as links to national and regional associations....

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Improve Your Dressage Riding Position

Figure-Eight Exercise Figure 1: In this simple exercise to improve your dressage riding position, as the horse turns from one direction to another--around two benches beside my ring, or around cones...

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Check Dressage Stirrup Length

Question: At what point is a rider ready to adjust the length of his or her dressage stirrups? A friend told me recently that I should be riding two or...

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Dressage 101

Go to any local dressage show across the country, and you'll see a variety of entries- kids on ponies, newbie riders on first horses, retirees on solid...

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Correct Dressage Whip Use

Question: I recently observed a trainer school her Andalusian stallion with two dressage whips, one in each hand. I was taught to ride with one whip only. In what situations...

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Dressage Saddle Fit Importance

Ask Max Gahwyler, MD, about saddle fit and the popular dressage judge, clinician and author from Darien, Connecticut, shares an anecdote: "One day I went riding and forgot to...

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Ask the Experts: Improving the Dressage Seat

[/caption] QUESTION: I am 40 and have been riding for five years. I recently acquired a classically trained dressage partner, and my problem is trying to get my seat straight and my...

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Retraining Thoroughbreds for Dressage

Americans love Thoroughbreds. They carried our soldiers, they delivered our mail and their intense desire to win races inspires us every spring as we yearn for a Triple Crown winner....

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Dressage Life: Life Lessons Through Dressage

"Most riders," says Robert Dover in Dressage Today's May 2005 Instructor Spotlight, "ride from movement to movement. Effective riders ride from half halt to half halt." That, of...

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