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
Make it a habit to praise when the horse yields.
Nuno Oliveira
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
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
Training a horse is above all feeling and trying, according to what you feel, to help the horse and not to force him.
Nuno Oliveira
As the blind person touches the object before him very softly and lightly with his fingertips in order not to interfere with the work of the sensitive nerve ends by too much pressure, so it is the rider’s first obligation to keep soft and natural those parts of his body with which he feels his horse.
Gustav Steinbrecht
You need to have a picture in your mind of what you want your horse to do.
Ray Hunt
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
Recognize the smallest change, the slightest try.
Ray Hunt
Confidence is knowing you are prepared.
Ray Hunt
