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I might have some from when I lived there (66-67)...but HC jr was like 11???? Not riding.

Hector Sr (who I rode with) coached the team for the Pan Ams in 67 which got team silver...but did not supply the horses. The individual gold winner was Kyra Downton on Kadett for gold (who rode St...

Do marathons of posting (toes up/feet parallel/etc) until a one of a group cannot last any longer (60 times around a large arena)...post LOWWWW.

Do two point w/o stirrups for real torture.
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(Get the 'cold hat'...keeps you from losing hair!!!!)

The point of the clips is to hold the bit forward (from too much acting on the bars). One cannot show in them, but they really help some horses. They are difficult to fit sometimes, but generally...

Horses antipate the contact resumption...the question is why. It's the quality of the (resumption of) the connection. It is almost predictable how they chew the reins from the hand into the...

It is not anticipation but the taking of the contact. So a couple of things: Make a circle, ride half diagonal from e or b, then take up the contact ON another circle (in the corner) with proper...

Two thoughts: Start the horse in walk, if it goes too quickly IMMEDIATELY stop it (have a caveson on, rather off the bit which tends to put out of balance/hence hurrying). IF the horse does not...

Training babies is a very specific skill set (that knows no riding type but considers the horse's nature). Too many people think a baby comes with software preinstalled (ie go from the leg/etc), and...

116.2. Putting out the tongue, keeping it above the bit or drawing it up altogether as well as grinding the teeth and swishing the tail are mostly signs of nervousness, tenseness or resistance on the...

Part of a halt is the balance in which you approach it. Make sure that you hh/hh/then transition. Make sure the horse is up/open, if the horse is down/closed (or if your hands are too wide) then...

There are a number of (top dressage) riders who have had them done, and wondered why they waited!

It has nothing to do with 'holding a frame', but rather maintaining uphill balance. A horse in self carriage can still (re)use its neck (w/o falling onto the forehand/etc). It is what the...

Training is progressive, self carriage is developed as collectibility develops. Training level horses are not expected to be 'on the bit', they merely have to accept a steady connection, stay up and...

A horse which is out of balance (low/closed/pushing not carrying/etc) cannot take an appropriately effective hh (fold the hindlegs). However, the rider must choose the appropriate tempo (perhaps...

Generally speaking the low(est) general impression score should highlight/lowlight the best/worst of what is shown throughout the test. If the horse were steadily slightly curled or slightly...

I would encourage any person who want to learn about what could be called academic equitation to read de la Guerinere on the subject. The srs is the most closely tied (from pedigree of...

Passiers imho are the least bothersome for that area. But, that said, if your stirrups are too long then the pelvis is not neutral but forward learning, hence rubbing. If you have a longgg thigh...

It's St. George, patron saint of riders!

Has anyone stood beside a warm up of hyperflexed horses? Hear any breathing of the soft exhalations where the nostrils virbrate? Look at the surface veins of those same horses?

Reins which are too long have nothing to do with the arms hanging vertically. Too long reins have to do with the horse being allowed to be too low/etc. The upper arms neutral position is beside the...

SRS go in "S" curbs (and are white), perhaps a Jerez School horse?

The hands should not be on the withers, but rather the hand should be in a straight line from elbow to horses mouth (and upper arm vertical). In walk/canter there is a bascule/telescoping of the...

When horses relaxes it exhales and the nostrils do that purring sound, by the trainer doing that the horse hears (or feels it when mounted) and it focuses/relaxes.

Maybe they were this type of cow??? http://sports.webshots.com/photo/1021542501011853991adUQMIVYej http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/