You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
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
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
Hand without legs, Legs without hand.
François Baucher
We are fallible. We certainly haven’t attained perfection. But we can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving.
Carlos P. Romulo
It is always better to risk losing the contact a little, than not to yield at all.
Nuno Oliveira
Breathe deeply and calmly in the canter. Expand your rib cage.
Nuno Oliveira
Make the wrong thing difficult, and the right thing easy.
Ray Hunt
I’m still on the move, I’m getting better because I’m still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.
Buck Brannaman
When the horse is standing, before you reach to ask him to go forward or back, or turn right or left; before you ask him, have a picture in your mind of what you are going to ask him to do, and how you expect him to respond before you start.
Tom Dorrance
