First of all, I believe that dressage should be the foundation for all horse sport disciplines. But, I also think the dressage community would benefit from the skill sets that natural horsemanship principles provide.
Walter Zettl
You can’t teach feel, you have to experience it.
Bill Dorrance
The horse is doing one of two things: he’s doing what he thinks he’s supposed to do, or he’s doing what he thinks he has to do to survive.
Ray Hunt
You need to have a picture in your mind of what you want your horse to do.
Ray Hunt
Let your idea become the horse‘s idea.
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
The horse is a reflection of the rider‘s ability.
Ray Hunt
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
Don’t have the tendency to want to hurry and not let the horse find it. You fix and wait for them to find it; then it’s their idea when they move their feet.
Tom Dorrance
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
