This Young Rider, who has ridden through the FEI Levels, starts Day 1 with Olympian Ashley Holzer who cautions the rider not to rider her horse too forward when the horse tends to be behind the leg. Dont run the horse off her feet. Instead, find the balance and allow her to find the confidence in...

The experts are back with Olympian Kasey Perry-Glass and Mistico.

The experts observe U.S. Olympian Kasey Perry-Glass and Mistico, the 13-year-old Hanoverian gelding, through the warm-up and then the more advanced work, including piaffe and passage. One tip Ashley Holzer shares with the audience is to make an exercise easier for a horse in the hopes that he wil...

In this video, we see a lovely 10-year-old Dutch Warmblood who is working toward Grand Prix level. The experts help the pair work on consistency in contact and balance as well as straightness, engagement and timing of the aids and the corrections. Anne Gribbons discusses the importance of the sho...

In this video, we bring you a rider working at Grand Prix with an 11-year-old Dutch gelding. Lars Petersen works with the pair and asks the rider to be mindful of not allowing the horse to collect too much. The horse tends to become quite tense and experts help the rider work through this. Ashley...

In this video, U.S. Olympian Michelle Gibson rides a 9-year-old Swedish gelding. Ashley Holzer bounces training ideas back and forth with Michelle and discusses how a great warm-up is an art, talent and continual learning experience. Ashley challenges riders to warm-up both sides of the horse equ...

In this video, Gary Rockwell starts the session by explaining that we need to think of collection as weight lifting...be smart about it and warm-up properly. The horse wants to be a little hollow to the left. Gary works to help the rider get the horse more equal in both reins. In the second half ...

On Day 1, this rider and the 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding, Leopold of Shakespeare, currently showing at Third Level, start their work with Anne Gribbons and then receive input from the other experts. They first work on warming up the horse over his topline and discuss the importance of not going...

Lars Petersen and the other experts help this rider work through several trouble spots before working on the flying changes and pirouettes. They discuss the importance of the rider position and how she must work on a softer contact with a softer shoulder and elbow.

Gary Rockwell also stresses the importance of training your eyes”keep your eye on your line. Know that if you look at the mountain your horse will climb the mountain, and if you look at the ground, the horse will go to the ground.