After my perfectly innocent website was viciously attacked by some basement dweller somewhere, I was barely able to recover it using a method that mostly worked – but which replaced certain types of characters with “?”. That’s why there are are “?’s” in seemingly random places. There are oodles ofContinue Reading
The Duke of Newcastle would call them fully dressed (‘dressaged’) or managed (a la?’to manage’ or ‘maneged’). All horses offered by Harmony Cross … Have been academically prepared to understand ‘classical’ aids Have been well socialized – among horses and humans – to provide a safe, flexible riding partner, regardlessContinue Reading
There is no more information here. ?That’s all the information there is. If what you don’t need isn’t that – and you feel uncertain – I definitely may not consider your anti “matter.” Serious. Keep it clean. Or write: [email protected]. Continue Reading
I was thinking the other day: ?”Man! … Hank! ?I wish we’d’ve given a READ ME FIRST? to every love we’d ever lost.” ?Or got rid of. ?Or that lost us. ?Or however it went isn’t the point. ?I wish I had. ?Just so-sy we’d’ve had a few things clearContinue Reading
When people ask me “what do you do with horses?”, they get one of two answers, depending my very quick analysis of their background – and my mood. Non-horse people, neophytes, and the vast majority of people too young to vote get a very short answer: ?I pet them,Continue Reading
The “Hand & Heel”?concept?is iterated by?the Duke of Newcastle, the Romanic school (including Californio Vaquero a la Ed Connell), as well as Francois Baucher and his disciples. What is it? ?Different schools of equitation can make use of different aids and effects. ?The horse is especially sensate. ?He can feelContinue Reading
AB-SO-LUTELY. You can at any age. Of course, your “fast twitch” reactions are slower as you age, but I presume you’re not proposing to ride broncos. I went along on a fox hunt last year, and the master of hunt (who could ride like the devil) informed he _started_ ridingContinue Reading
If by “building” you mean “training” (in a historical sense) the finished dressage horse should be well capable of performing cross-country and jumping duties before even being started in high school training, which focuses on the pursuit of mobility and control, and does so by harnessing the horse’s ability toContinue Reading
It seems this way because, in this savage age, unfortunately, it simply is this way – certainly in the US and UK. The more interesting question is how it came to be so. On the face of it, it is paradoxical: high school dressage, at core, is a martial art,Continue Reading
