Breathe deeply and calmly in the canter. Expand your rib cage.
Nuno Oliveira
The horse responds to comfort, they respond to peace better than about anything else you could do. So if the horse responds to you and you give him a little peace and comfort that means more to him than anything.
Buck Brannaman
You can’t teach feel, you have to experience it.
Bill Dorrance
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
You feel and listen to the horse. The experience of the results of his response helps you understand for the next time.
Tom Dorrance
The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
A lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it’s no different with a horse than with a kid…You can’t always be the kid’s best friend. First you have to be the parent.
Buck Brannaman
The goal of all dressage riding should be to bring the horse and rider together in harmony…a oneness of balance, purpose, and athletic expression.
Walter Zettl
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
Riding:The dialogue between two bodies and two souls aimed at establishing perfect harmony between them.
Waldemar Seunig
