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A diagram for dressage riders shows a dressage arena with circles labeled Trot in green and Canter in red on the left, plus a snowman with a black hat and red scarf on the right. Text reads: The BEST Dressage Exercise!!!.

The Best Exercise for Dressage Horses and Riders of ALL Types and Levels!

The snowman is seriously one of the best exercises you can use to improve your canter transition and work on your horses’ suppleness, throughness, and impulsion!! This exercise is great for tense horses, lazy…
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A rider on a chestnut horse demonstrates a dressage move. A red dot marks the inside leg, while a green circle highlights the outside rein. Text reads, “Inside leg to Outside Rein.”.

The Key to Dressage: Inside Leg to Outside Rein

So what’s the big deal? Why is inside leg to outside rein so important in Dressage? And why is it so difficult to get the horse off of the inside leg and into the…
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A bay horse stands in an indoor arena. An inset photo shows a close-up of the same horse in a stable. Text reads, New Horse?!?!—is this your first time riding a horse?.

8 Tips When You’re Looking for a New Horse or Riding a Horse for the First Time!

Looking for a new horse or riding a horse that is unfamiliar to you can be both very exciting and extremely nerve wracking. Last week I took a trip to Holland where I saw…
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A rider in a blue shirt canters on a chestnut horse in a dressage arena. Text reads Fix Crooked Canter?! with a green arrow pointing upward and to the right, highlighting the horse's diagonal movement.

How do you fix a crooked canter?

All horses (and all riders for that matter) are crooked. Horses’ hips are wider than their shoulders so when they are traveling down the rail it will give the appearance that they are in…
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A woman wearing a white vest and cap speaks indoors. Behind her is a dark cabinet, a white door, and a painting of a horse and rider. The top right shows the Amelia Newcomb Dressage logo, reflecting her passion for Dressage lessons.

Lessons from the 2021 Tokyo Dressage Olympics

Lessons from the 2021 Tokyo Dressage Olympics The Olympics are always an incredible reminder of what’s possible in our sport. Watching top riders and horses from around the world perform at their peak is…
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A person wearing a helmet is horse riding a dark horse with white leg wraps in an outdoor arena. Text on the image reads “Posting Trot!” Trees and greenery are in the background as they post the trot.

How and Why to Post the Trot

Posting trot is not easy to do well – you have to coordinate your seat, legs and hands and stay in tempo with your horse! But, posting trot has a lot of important benefits…
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Two riders are each turning their horses in an arena. The left horse is grey and the right horse is dark brown. Both horses wear protective leg wraps and are ridden by people in helmets and riding gear. The word TURN!!! appears at the top.

How to Turn your Horse?!

Turning a horse is MUCH harder than turning a car! Here are some tips to help you turn correctly… What are aids for turning? Simply put, the outside rein and leg are the turning…
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A rider on a chestnut horse in a dressage arena. Colored arrows and circles highlight leg, hand, and seat positions, illustrating equestrian aids for effective horse communication. Text reads The Aids!! at the bottom right.

The Aids – How to “Talk to your Horse”

About the canter: The canter is a 3 beat gait. Beat one is the outside hind leg, beat two is the inside hind leg and outside front leg, and beat three is the inside…
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A person in a blue shirt and helmet rides a chestnut horse in an arena. Four green dots highlight a vertical line along the rider’s body. The word “Canter!” appears in bold on the right.

Canter! What to do with your seat, legs, shoulders, elbows, and more!

How do you move your body in the canter? A LOT of riders struggle with the canter. In the canter, your seat, legs, shoulders, and elbows all have to be doing something different! Here…
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