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A person in riding gear warms up a chestnut horse in an outdoor arena. The image has a flame border and bold red text that reads Warm-Up Your Horse! across the top.

How to Warm up your Dressage Horse!

The warm up is arguably the most important part of your ride! The warm up should get your horse mentally and physically accessible and supple so that you can have a productive training session….
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A person rides a brown horse with white leg wraps in an outdoor arena, practicing smooth downward transitions. Text reads “Downward Transitions!!” with a waving hand emoji and a wavy-mouthed face in the bottom left corner.

Downward Transitions!

Downward transitions are on many horses even more difficult than upward transitions. Even though your are slowing down, you want the horse to stay forward feeling in the downward transition and to stay engaged…
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Amelia executing a canter transition, an arrow points out the hind limb when the horse transitions to canter.

When do you ask for the Canter?!

Are you clear on when to ask for the canter??? The canter transition is something that MANY horses and riders struggle with! A lot has to happen for the horse to coordinate all 4…
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A person riding a dark horse in an outdoor arena demonstrates Downward Transitions, with the words "Downward Transitions" in white text and a red arrow pointing to the rider.

Downward Transitions

I’m pretty sure we’re ALL guilty of bad downward transitions!  When you want to reward your horse, or when you get tired and need to take a break, it’s so easy to just collapse…
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A person wearing a helmet and riding gear is performing a counter canter on a chestnut horse in an outdoor arena. The words “Counter Canter!!” appear across the top of the image in white, playful letters.

Counter Canter

Counter canter is a great exercise to improve your horse’s canter as it is a test of balance, suppleness, straightness, and collection. The counter canter is introduced at  first level and ALL of the…
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Amelia Newcomb executing a collected canter.

Collection: Canter Walk Canter Transitions

Canter-walk-canter transitions are one of the best exercises to introduce the concept of collection to your horse! In order to execute a walk-canter transition properly, the horse must lower and engage the hind end…
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A rider in formal attire warms up a dressage horse, practicing trot canter transitions in an arena with trees and hills behind. Text on the image reads: Warm Up The Dressage Horse.

Warm Up Your Dressage Horse: Trot Canter Trot Transitions

Trot canter trot transitions are one of the BEST exercises for ALL Dressage horses whether they are young green horses or FEI horses. Trot-canter-trot transitions accomplish the following things: Suppleness – these transitions work…
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A rider in a helmet and patterned shirt rides a chestnut horse with colored leg wraps. The text reads “Get your horse focused and relaxed with Rhythm Counting” on a blue background with music notes.

Counting for Rhythm

Edit: If you are having trouble getting this video to load, try watching it directly on Youtube here.  In this week’s video, I have one simple trick to help you improve your riding! Regardless…
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Transitions are everything in dressage

Transitions are Everything in Dressage

Transitions are EVERYTHING in Dressage Training. If you are not sure what to work on during your ride, work on transitions. Seamless, harmonious, transitions with uphill balance and an engaged win end are the…
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