You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
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
I believe horses naturally have tremendous faith in the human being. It is their natural instinct of selfpreservation that the person needs to understand in order to gain the confidence of the horse.
Tom Dorrance
The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.
Confucius
Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
If you are going to teach a horse something and have a good relationship, you don’t make him learn it you let him learn it.
Ray Hunt
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
Use hands and legs sparingly, and maintain balance through the seat.
Nuno Oliveira
Recognize the smallest change, the slightest try.
Ray Hunt
In working with people and trying to help them with something, I find it isn’t easy for me to get them to work in the area where it seems they need to work. They keep trying to work at the end result.
Tom Dorrance
