A huge challenge is working with five horses at liberty. Dan has them move together as well as in opposite directions and in different groups. Even at this advanced level, he is able to make it look easy.

The final portion of his demo shows Dan riding and standing bareback while interacting with the other horses. He first moves them around as a team and then has them wait while he does a bareback riding demo. It shows his outstanding balance, timing and rhythm as well as his trust in his horses to...

OTTB Challenges and Issues with Jody Hartstone

OTTB Groundwork with Jody Hartstone

Nicole Weinauge teaches Jasmine Gray young rider from Australia with a Western Dressage background. She works a six year old Trakehner gelding beginning with ground work. Nicole explains what tack she uses for this work based on the principles of the School of Legerete. The rider unmounted stands...

Colonel Carde works in hand with this distracted gelding, and begins with creating a peaceful, confident, calm place. He takes contact with both reins, being persistent with asking for calm obedience and giving when he gives. He demonstrates asking for a stretching of the neck.

As the horse becomes more workable, they are able to trot in hand and then work on moving the croup to the outside with the inside hind leg crossing over the outside hind leg. Colonel Carde gives an excellent demonstration of how patience is needed with a nervous horse. They work the walk, trot...

The colonel works the horse walking and stopping next to him without hanging on to the reins to check and see if he is paying attention to the rider. He gives a review of the method of using the work in hand in training. The rider then takes over working the horse in hand. The horse shows a great...

The rider now works more lateral movement on the circle and the Colonel reminds them to control the poll. They also are successful in asking him to stretch. Colonel Carde points out that the most common problem with working in hand is to overwork the inside rein and forget the outside rein.

Vitor Silva offers an introduction to working your horse in-hand, helping to enhance the movements of the horse and activate the hind end. You can see them work the turn on the forehand, turn on the haunches and half pass. He emphasizes the need to keep suppling the poll while doing this work.

In this video, Vitor begins work on the half steps. He instructs the rider to bend the horse more and allow the horse to travel forward and activate his inside hind leg.

Willy explains how he uses the lunge whip and his own body position as he lunges. He talks about why it is important to lunge with contact before he introduces him to the birdie and the use of the voice aids. When the horse offers the canter he allows it before calmly asking for the trot.  Willy ...

Willy Arts returns for another lunging demonstration and shows how the horse must be on the aids and forward right from the beginning. He demonstrates spiraling in and out and when he becomes fresh and playful he calmly keeps the contact. Willy emphasizes having the horse moving from the back to ...

Willy changes the lunge line around to go in the other direction and we again have the chance to watch a master deal with a fresh youngster. He clearly explains how the horse moves on the lunge line relates to what happens under saddle. They next saddle the horse and Willy talks about how to do t...

Willy demonstrates different ways to put the reins over the saddle and talks about when to use the different positions. He shows what to do if the horse has too much bend with the reins like this. They next have a rider mount the horse and lunge with the rider adding a neck strap for the safety o...

They now take the lunge line off and have the rider on her own Willy stresses that the horse must know to follow the hand before being ridden at liberty They think ahead for what issues may arise and keep the horse forward through any problems that arise They keep the training session short and h...

They return to the trot on the circle, keeping her forward.  He has her bend the horse slightly to the outside and then inside, relaxing her.  They go to canter, but she shows tension so they go back to the trot and relax before doing the depart.  Florian asks her to ride forward in the canter, k...

Florian joins Carl and Richard in answering questions from the audience, giving great insight into the methods of the Spanish Riding School.  Richard and Carl talk about how they start their horses in the piaffe and passage. Florian explains the order of training he uses for the piaffe and passag...

Starting the almost unbroke horse. - Kenny Harlow

Proper lunging of the three year old with Catherine Haddad

Proper lunging of the three year old with Catherine Haddad

Linda Parelli introduces us to her partner, Westpoint, and explains how to obtain the appropriate response to pressure. She stresses the philosophy that pressure motivates, and release teaches. Her exercises demonstrate how this has greatly improved Westpoint, who came to Linda with a history of ...

Pressure Release with Linda Parelli

Innovative uses of lunging with Pat Parelli