Steffen Peters continues to coach a Training/First Level rider as analyzes the contact with her young horse on day two of the clinic. Steffen helps the rider find a productive frame for her horse to reach consistency in the bridle. The pair works on transitions and collecting the canter to work t...

German show jumper Ronny Riemer covers various options to ride a distance on a bending line. He explains how to be on an inside track for direct approach or an outside track and what scenarios would determine your best distance.

With over 20 years of experience, Ronny brings a wealth of knowledg...

Steffen Peters coaches a Training/First Level rider as she works on keeping consistent contact with her young horse. Steffen encourages intentional riding to get the desired response to the rider’s aids from the horse. The pair works on transitions and collecting the canter on day one of the clin...

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Fera, who organized a clinic with Steffen Peters, talks about the insights that she gained from the experience. Lizzie rode her 5-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding in the two-day clinic with Steffen. They worked on lightness, responsiveness to the aids and the start of collectio...

German show jumper Ronny Riemer explains how to approach a jump on straightaways and circles and how to find a good distance using the track without interfering with the horse’s stride length and pace. He also explains how different distances can work out depending on the course and your horse.

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German show jumper Ronny Riemer shares how he walks courses and comes up with a plan, including how he measures distances, analyzes strides, determines options for bending lines and approaches combinations, for calm and confident rounds.

With over 20 years of experience, Ronny brings a wealth of...

Jennie Brannigan, five-star and U.S. team rider, shares a show-jumping lesson with an Intermediate-level pair. Jennie has the rider walk cavalletti on a curve, reversing direction with a turn on the haunches. This helps the horse with self-carriage. Jennie then adds two cavalletti jumps on a curv...

For the end of the lesson, Jennie Brannigan raises the fences in the cavalletti line. She asks the Intermediate-level rider to open up the horse’s stride before jumping the line to work on the adjustability and rideability. Jennie and the student talk about how useful these exercises can be to im...

For the next part of the lesson, Jennie Brannigan and the Intermediate-level student continue to work on the horse’s self-carriage. Jennie has the rider reverse the cavalletti exercise and adds a line of bounces to an oxer. During the transitions, they work on making each transition come from the...

FEI Eventing and USEF Dressage judge Jane Hamlin coaches a Training level pair on how to create a better connection between horse and rider. Jane has the pair ride circles, turns down the centerline and corners to develop a consistent contact. She emphasizes the importance of softening the contac...

Ashley Donadt shares her early riding days and moving from Washington state to California in 2012 where she worked as a groom and assistant trainer for various dressage riders including David Blake, Rebecca Rigdon and Elizabeth “Beth” Ball. Donadt talks about her training with Ball as well as Oly...

Ashley Donadt shares strategies for dealing with competition nerves. These include acknowledging the source of your nerves to help take away their power, looking at the physical effects nerves have on your body, thinking about how your nerves are affecting your horse and establishing non-score re...

Dressage riders will relate to what Ashley Donadt loves about dressage—the idea of communicating with a horse and the feeling when that communication “clicks” and you feel like you’re dancing with your horse. What does she find challenging about dressage—trying to make it look “easy” is “really h...

In the prior exercise (PART 03), Ashley Johnson created an exercise by having a square of ground poles with a pole laid diagonally across the middle. Now, she raises the diagonal pole to a low vertical. The Training Level horse improves his canter quality in the exercise and rounding his bascule ...

FEI five-star eventing ground jury member Jane Hamlin shares a lesson confirming Intermediate-level eventing dressage skills. She offers insight into what a judge looks for in the test. She also includes a combination of exercises—including shoulder-in to 10-meter circles to shoulder-in to haunch...

Clayton Fredericks introduces horses to skinnies and corners in a show-jumping lesson, using it to prepare for schooling these elements cross country. In Part 1, he focuses on skinny—narrow—fences. He emphasizes that the horses need to be on their line and have the right canter for the fence size...

The half-halt rebalances the horse, asking him to shift more weight onto his hind end and recycling forward energy to his hind legs. In this video, Ashley Donadt offers simple exercises to help you feel and understand the mechanics of the half-halt, explains why and how it’s used, and teaches you...

Susanne von Dietze takes to the saddle and demonstrates her how the rider seat, balance and position affect the horse.

In Part 2 of a cross-country lesson, Sharon White continues helping Training, Modified and Intermediate-level pairs, designing courses for each. Teaching points include riding the line, not the distance; working with mares; and keeping the correct pace. The riders practice various fences includin...

In Part 2 of a cross-country lesson, Sharon White continues helping Training, Modified and Intermediate-level pairs, designing courses for each. Teaching points include riding the line, not the distance; working with mares; and keeping the correct pace. The riders practice various fences includin...

Ashley Donadt explains how riding every corner mindfully can translate to higher test scores in competition. Her simple exercise offers training benefits such as improving your horse’s balance and focus, getting him tuned in to your aids, naturally teaching the half-halt, and ultimately setting u...

Sharon White, five-star star competitor and 2023 Pan American U.S. team member, takes herself and three riders competing at Training, Modified and Intermediate levels schooling cross country. She shares tips on maintaining the line to a fence, rider position, what to do in case of a runout, keepi...

Sharon White, five-star star competitor and 2023 Pan American U.S. team member, takes herself and three riders competing at Training, Modified and Intermediate levels schooling cross country. She shares tips on maintaining the line to a fence, rider position, what to do in case of a runout, keepi...

German Olympic eventer Bettina Hoy works on balance and canter departs with this horse and rider. In trot, the horse has a too-quick reaction to the aids, so the rider asks for improvements and responsiveness over three to four strides. In canter work, Bettina has the rider depart from sitting tr...