There are three different approaches to riding a bending line: the direct track, the natural track, and the outside track. Which track you choose really depends on a great number of variables. What type of class it is? What size …
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Keeping it FreshTrainers must be very careful not to overwork young horses. Breeders are producing much better horses than they were 20 years ago ñ more uphill, more willing, and more able to bring the neck up. But these …
Ashley McInnisAshley, 32, has been a familiar face in the show ring since her very successful junior years. The Barrie, ON, native graduated from the University of Guelph and Osgoode Hall Law School, and is a partner at the …
The Basics of FunJane Casselman’s Touch N’ Go Farms in Campbellville, ON, has been the benchmark of grassroots facilities since its inception in 1975. Casselman, a former president of the OEF, has worked closely with the provincial association …
For all of her young life, Suzyís parents have provided riding lessons; however, now in her 18th year, she finds herself struggling to fund her equestrian career on her own. A young adult in her first year of university, she …
The recipient of Horse Sport’s 2011 Youth Scholarship, Esmee Ingham, 21, was born and raised in West Vancouver, and was plopped on a horse before she could walk. Pursuing dressage was not necessarily a conscious decision; she just never really …
Itís the kind of mystery no horse owner likes to encounter: a previously healthy horse out on pasture suddenly develops severe muscle weakness and distress, with no obvious cause. In Europe, this frequently fatal muscle disease has been named atypical …
Itís important to know a horseís weight when formulating a diet or medication dosage for the animal. Keeping track of fluctuations in weight can also help managers to identify early changes in condition.Various formulas can be used to get …
Bill Ulmer is one of the Pacific Northwest’s most respected and diverse professionals. On a horse he broke himself, the Hannoverian/TB cross Touchdown, his career as an eventer took him from a North American Young Riders Championships team bronze medal …
When you are judging line classes, do you acknowledge the handlers or just focus on the horse?It really is all about viewing the horse, so I am focused on the animal, not the handler. If I am greeted by …
Itís the thought that countsWith my students, I have observed a behaviour that reveals much about their attitude toward the walk. If I ask a student who is at the walk to show me a canter transition, the first …
With the call to line up, follow directions precisely. If you are asked to line up from a canter or trot, which happens often in equitation classes, you should proceed directly to the lineup from that gait. If you are …
Groundwork is a good confidence-builder for your horse and in turn it gives the rider more confidence than you might think. You can you see how your horse reacts to different situations from the ground and it helps you know …
Horse people are a breed apart. Bring together two of us anywhere in the world and lack of a common language is no barrier. Within a few minutes some sort of magic takes place and we are exchanging in-depth information …