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Discover exercises and training advice tailored specifically to you and your horse’s level of experience.
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Instruction
Improve Elasticity in Horse and Rider
Equestrian biomechanics expert Susanne von Dietze critiques a Training-Level combination.
Instruction
Tips for Evaluating Foals as Dressage Prospects
Dietrich Felgendreher answers a reader question about evaluating foals as prospects for national and international dressage competition.
Fourth Level
Tips to Fix a Crooked Rein-Back
Check out this training advice from dressage professional Linda Schultz
Instruction
8 Ways to Survive Flying Change Hell
Dressage professional Jenna Arnold shares tips and encouragement to help you and your dressage horse work through the challenges of learning flying changes.
Dressage Today Extra
A Plan for Starting Young Horses + Build Your Equine First Aid Travel Kit
Read more in the latest edition of the DT Extra!
Instruction
Strategies for Training Young Horses: An Exercise to Combine Leg Yield and Turn on the Forehand
In the second installment of her two-part article on training young horses, Dressage Today blogger Jenna Arnold shares an exercise that teaches the horse to yield his ribcage.
Instruction
Training Tips to Correct a Horse Who Gets Too Strong In Canter
Elizabeth Madlener explains how address this issue
Instruction
Refine Horse and Rider Balance to Correctly Channel Energy
Equestrian biomechanics expert Susanne von Dietze critiques a Second-Level combination and suggests exercises to improve balance and prevent leaning.
First Level
How to Correctly Ride a Change of Lead Through Trot
Learn the steps to ride this movement that appears in First Level Test 3.
FEI
How to Maintain Correct Bend in the Half Pass
Madeleine Austin explains the "ingredients" of a successful half pass.