Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
The horse knows where the person is all the time. Now we are trying to help the person know where the horse is all the time. The horse knows where the person is; the person needs to learn to catch up with the horse on that.
Tom Dorrance
The horse will become supple when it is cadenced, stiff when it rushes.
Nuno Oliveira
It is a mistake to keep the horse on the bit for too long. He must be relaxed at the walk on the long rein regularly and afterwards he must be carefully put back together again.
Nuno Oliveira
Recognize the smallest change, the slightest try.
Ray Hunt
Only the rider who is free from any contraction will have a horse equally free from contraction. A team such as this is the ideal.
Nuno Oliveira
Riding:The dialogue between two bodies and two souls aimed at establishing perfect harmony between them.
Waldemar Seunig
One has to have an immobile hand with mobile fingers.
Nuno Oliveira
You can be strict, but that doesn’t mean you have to be unfair.
Buck Brannaman
Brutality begins where skill ends.
Egon von Neindorff
