The horse will become supple when it is cadenced, stiff when it rushes.
Nuno Oliveira
When the horse is standing, before you reach to ask him to go forward or back, or turn right or left; before you ask him, have a picture in your mind of what you are going to ask him to do, and how you expect him to respond before you start.
Tom Dorrance
You need to have a picture in your mind of what you want your horse to do.
Ray Hunt
Mistakes of the legs show up in the mouth.
Nuno Oliveira
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
Hand without legs, Legs without hand.
François Baucher
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
Nuno Oliveira
As a conclusion of these general observations about the course of dressage training I want to add the serious admonition; not to hurry any of the exercises and to let them all follow one another in such a way that the preceding exercise always constitutes a secure basis for the next one.
Gustav Steinbrecht
Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.
Nuno Oliveira
The goal is not to raise the neck, it is to lower the hips.
Albert Decarpentry
