Shoulder-fore

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

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

An American Olympian describes her system for developing her horses mentally and physically from their start as young horses to the Grand Prix.

A discussion of this indispensable element in daily dressage training

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.

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?

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.