Shoulder-fore

Ride through these four steps from Beth Baumert to improve your horse's throughness.

Stacey Hastings shares a few techniques to help you keep your horse tuned into you, instead of the distractions outside of the ring.

Katherine Bateson-Chandler explains this useful exercise to help develop collection while maintaining forwardness.

Katherine Bateson-Chandler explains how it is the job of the rider to make the horse as even on both sides as possible, therefore improving his straightness.

A discussion of this indispensable element in daily dressage training

How to achieve this must-have component of your horse’s dressage training

Can the soundness of your dressage horse be related to the size of your arena?

Katherine Bateson-Chandler answers this reader question, discussing the ideal canter aids to help keep your horse straight.

Sabine Ense explains what straightness means and how you can achieve it. Only a horse who is supple can be straight.

How to use upward and downward transitions with half-halts in shoulder-fore.

Learn about this classical straightening exercise that produces throughness.

Colonel Christian Carde shares this classical approach to training the horse

Barb Crabbe, DVM, answers a reader's question about her horse's crookedness at canter and offers some exercises to help strengthen the horse and straighten the canter.