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Trailer Intermediate Eventing Dressage | Jane Hamlin
FEI five-star eventing ground jury member Jane Hamlin shares a lesson confirming Intermediate-level eventing dressage skills. She offers insight into what a judge looks for in the test. She also includes a combination of exercises—including shoulder-in to 10-meter circles to shoulder-in to haunch...
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Introducing Skinnies & Corners | Clayton Fredericks | TRAILER 01
Clayton Fredericks introduces horses to skinnies and corners in a show-jumping lesson, using it to prepare for schooling these elements cross country. In Part 1, he focuses on skinny—narrow—fences. He emphasizes that the horses need to be on their line and have the right canter for the fence size...
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The Rider's Seat Demo | Susanne von Dietze
Susanne von Dietze takes to the saddle and demonstrates her how the rider seat, balance and position affect the horse.
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Trailer—Sharon White—Part 2: Cross-Country Training, Modified
In Part 2 of a cross-country lesson, Sharon White continues helping Training, Modified and Intermediate-level pairs, designing courses for each. Teaching points include riding the line, not the distance; working with mares; and keeping the correct pace. The riders practice various fences includin...
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Trailer—Sharon White—Part 1: Cross-Country Cross-Country Training, Modified
Sharon White, five-star star competitor and 2023 Pan American U.S. team member, takes herself and three riders competing at Training, Modified and Intermediate levels schooling cross country. She shares tips on maintaining the line to a fence, rider position, what to do in case of a runout, keepi...
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Trailer—Bettina Hoy—Improving Balance and Engagement
German Olympic eventer Bettina Hoy shares a dressage lesson in which she works with a rider to improve balance and engagement with her mare. They use test movements such as leg-yield, shoulder-in, renvers and half-pass as well as counter-canter and canter–walk transitions.
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Trailer—Caroline Pamukcu Eventing—Preparing for Spring Horse Trials—Show Jumping
Caroline Pamukcu’s head rider Lee Maher rides a last school before a spring horse trial on a horse competing at Modified the next weekend. They work on raised cavalletti, a vertical followed by lead changes, an oxer at different distances and a line with an in-and-out.
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Trailer—Caroline Pamukcu Eventing—Preparing for Spring Horse Trials—Dressage
Caroline Pamukcu’s head rider Lee Maher schools a horse in a last dressage school before competing at Novice in a spring horse trial the next weekend. He focuses on maintaining the same rhythm in the trot and canter work. He and the horse work on transitions— trot–walk–trot, within the canter and...
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Clinic Group 1: Rideability Over 2 Ground Poles | Margie Engle
Olympian Margie Engle sets a line of two poles across the diagonal and has the riders canter over it in five strides. Then she has them collect their horses’ strides and ride the line in six strides. Next, she asks them to open their horses’ strides to ride the line in four strides.
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Quicker and More Responsive | Bettina Hoy | TRAILER
Olympic eventer, Bettina Hoy, joins PracticalHorsemanOnDemand.com with this excellent dressage video covering problems common to so many riders - getting the horses more active and responsive. Watch this great lesson for a cavalletti exercise you can do at home and great instruction on how to pro...
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Balance Your Horse for Better Rhythm and Relaxation | Beth Baumert
USDF-Certified Instructor Beth Baumert explains that when your horse is balanced, he can have a relaxed rhythm. From this state, his movements become easier, his gaits improve and he becomes more beautiful and mentally relaxed. This video series helps you determine why your horse is out of balanc...
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Improving Suppleness and Sensitivity | Steffen Peters | PART 01
Steffen emphasizes that a rider should not have to constantly ride with a strong contact and leg. While it is easy for the rider to carry the horse, it is okay if the horse makes a mistake and breaks gait. If that happens, the rider can fix it. When you ask for the horse to go forward or move lat...
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Senior PSG Arabian Cross | Mimi Stanley | INTRO
Are you lucky enough to be riding a senior upper-level horse? Mimi Stanley guides you through a workout suitable for an aged horse coming back into showing and offers great tips on specific strategies for riding Arabians.
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Improving Suppleness | Liz Halliday-Sharp | TRAILER
International eventing star Liz Halliday-Sharp brings us a wonderful dressage lesson concentrating on suppleness and a round frame. She uses lateral work to keep the horse from locking up and losing flexibility.
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Riding the Magic Square with a Lower-Level Horse | AnnA Buffini
Grand Prix competitor AnnA Buffini demonstrates riding a square on a 4-year-old mare. With a young, or lower-level horse, the focus of the exercise is on straight lines and bending through the turns, which helps teach the horse how to balance back, how to turn and how to go forward off both legs....
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Kindergarten Exercises | George Williams | CLIP
Kindergarten Exercises, USEF National Dressage Youth Coach George Williams gives us exercises to become more effective with the application and timing of the rider aids. With help from his daughter, Noel, we see how these exercises translate human thought into a common language that both horse an...
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Hot Thoroughbred | Dorothy Crowell | TRAILER
Join WEG Silver medalist Dorothy Crowell in this great lesson addressing the ins and outs of riding a hot Thoroughbred. Watch for the tips on body position, breathing, half halts, and down transitions with a horse that has an impressive desire to go forward.
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Contessa at Land Rover Kentucky CCI5* - Cross Country | Boyd Martin
Get a rider's view of the amazing 5* cross-country course at the 2023 Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event. Follow along with eventing legend Boyd Martin as he narrates his ride aboard Contessa. Be there for every step as she completes her first 5* cross-country course.
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Managing a Young Horse's Big Trot | Lauren Sprieser
Grand Prix trainer and competitor Lauren Sprieser rides her new, 6-year-old gelding Eddie to demonstrate how to compress a young horse big trot without using a lot of rider strength. Her horse likes to pull himself with his under neck and chest, and she encourages him to carry himself regardless ...
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Focus on Rider Shoulder, Leg and Hip Position | Shannon Dueck | PART 01
In the first part of this ride, Shannon helps a rider work on her leg position that helps open the hip joint. The rider should feel like if the horse drops out from under her, she will land on her feet. The hips go in advance of the shoulders every stride because the horse takes them.
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Halt in Balance | Sloane Coles
Nations Cup show jumper and successful hunter/equitation competitor Sloane Coles demonstrates the fundamental exercise of how to halt a horse straight and in balance from the walk, trot and canter. She explains the proper rider aids and position so that the rider does not only rely on the hands. ...
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Maintaining Focus with a Reactive Horse | Laura Graves | PART 01
With a tense horse, Laura Graves suggests lots of changes of direction to encourage softening on both sides and suppling on the inside leg. The horse should give to the inside rein, which Laura feels is a good safety feature as many horses spook from something on the outside. When the horse is re...
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Training Scale - Impulsion | Felicitas von Neumann-Cosel | PART 07
In Part 7 of the Training Scale series, Felicitas looks at Impulsion from the horse's point of view. She talks about the German word Schwung, which comes from swinging. Some horses have natural engagement, impulsion and swing, but we need to make sure the horse is relaxed enough that we can take ...
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Bend and the Outside Rein | Lisa Wilcox | TRAILER
Olympian Lisa Wilcox describes how she works with a horse with a strong underneck to develop a better topline. The horse needs to bend in ribcage to be able to stay on the outside rein. Her reins are the same length, she explains, but the outside rein is farther up than the inside reins to allow ...