Shoulder-in

Blogger Pam Stone shares an update on the latest addition to her barn: a 14.1-hand Arabian.

Author and dressage trainer Dominique Barbier offers advice on how to be more focused when working with your dressage horse.

This USEF “S” judge offers her view on what she wants to see from dressage riders and their horses.

It’s a movement any horse with proper training can do well.

Improve your horse’s straightness and contact with this dressage training exercise from Gerhard Politz.

Five-time Olympian Kyra Kyrklund shares her dressage training secrets at a Kentucky symposium.

Manuel Trigo explains this Spanish term, which can be loosely translated as a Spanish version of Western dressage.

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.

Kathy Priest explains how the half pass can be broken up into two easier exercises and then put back together.

Strengthen and supple your horse with a series of upward and downward transitions.

These exercises prepare your horse to move up.

How elasticity and suppleness allow your horse to do his job well

An Olympic bronze medalist shares her strategy for learning and polishing this pivotal movement.

A discussion of this indispensable element in daily dressage training

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

Training tips, strategies and philosophies from this five-time Olympian and world-class horseman

This expert explains why shoulder-in is a go-to exercise in her dressage training.

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

Learn about this classical straightening exercise that produces throughness.

Stacey Hastings answers a reader question.

One of America’s top trainers talks about how to improve your horse’s performance by being an ideal coach for him.

High-performance rider Katherine Bateson-Chandler shares the story of how she got to know her World Equestrian Games mount, Nartan, and provides some tips to help you and your horse adjust to a new partnership.

Dressage judge Sarah Geikie explains the importance of bend in riding the venerable shoulder-in exercise.

Dr. Gerd Heuschmann explores what it means to be a responsible rider in his book, Balancing Act: The Horse in Sport—An Irreconcilable Conflict?