Brutality begins where skill ends.
Egon von Neindorff
Listen to the horse. Try to find out what the horse is trying to tell you. All we are trying to do is fix things up to where he can find them; then it’s the horse’s idea.
Tom Dorrance
You can’t teach feel, you have to experience it.
Bill Dorrance
Let your idea become the horse‘s idea.
Ray Hunt
Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely and to provide protection and comfort. In return, they will give us their respect, and willing submission to our ideas about what to do next, and when and where. But this respect can only be based on well deserved trust.
Walter Zettl
You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
Ride your horse with your whole body, not just with your arms and legs.
Ray Hunt
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
Calm, forward, straight.
Alexis L´Hotte
Where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It’s a little bit like when you were young and you were datingthat last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it’s the same thing… You got to quit on a good note.
Buck Brannaman
