Once the horse gets to responding, then you try to get the response you are asking for with less. You try to cut down what you are applying and get more response with less pressure, until it almost gets to be just a thought.
Tom Dorrance
You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
Breathe deeply and calmly in the canter. Expand your rib cage.
Nuno Oliveira
Through the years, I have worked with so many riders who have given me their best, their time, their attention and their willing effort. We’ve worked together through these shared experiences that have been so valuable in my search for ways to build greater unity for the horse and the rider.
Tom Dorrance
Riding:The dialogue between two bodies and two souls aimed at establishing perfect harmony between them.
Waldemar Seunig
As the blind person touches the object before him very softly and lightly with his fingertips in order not to interfere with the work of the sensitive nerve ends by too much pressure, so it is the rider’s first obligation to keep soft and natural those parts of his body with which he feels his horse.
Gustav Steinbrecht
You need to have a picture in your mind of what you want your horse to do.
Ray Hunt
The horse will become supple when it is cadenced, stiff when it rushes.
Nuno Oliveira
Make the wrong thing difficult, and the right thing easy.
Ray Hunt
At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over the limit.
Walter Zettl
