The thing you are trying to help the horse do is to use his own mind. You are trying to present something and then let him figure out how to get there.
Tom Dorrance
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
Now when the whole horse is together, he will feel good to you, I am sure. All we are trying to do is to fix these things up to where he can find them, then it’s the horse’s idea. But that is a little easier said than done.
Tom Dorrance
One has to have an immobile hand with mobile fingers.
Nuno Oliveira
Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth.
Nuno Oliveira
The horse will teach you if you‘ll listen.
Ray Hunt
The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.
Nuno Oliveira
The rider needs to recognize the horse’s need for self-preservation in mind, body, and the third factor spirit…….he needs to realize how the person’s approach can assure the horse that he can have his self-preservation and still respond to what the person is asking him to do.
Tom Dorrance
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
You can be strict, but that doesn’t mean you have to be unfair.
Buck Brannaman
