The Horseman’s Gazette Issue No.61

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Welcome to the 61st issue of The Horseman’s Gazette, a quarterly video-series that gives you horsemanship tools you can use and approaches that are fitting to all horses. 

Whether you find yourself struggling with a particular issue or are just wanting to improve your connection with your horse the lessons you will find in this issue will give you both ideas of what you can do and why you might do them. 

Growth in any skill is not easy; it requires stepping out of your comfort zone, trying new things and evaluating with honesty what is working and what is not. These video lessons will empower you to be able to do that for yourself.  Through the decades of experience our instructors share you will be able to adapt to fit what is right for your horse in any given moment, and their work will provide inspiration for where you might be headed with your horsemanship.

So, Come along for the ride — you and your horse will be glad that you did!

Please enjoy a sneak preview: 

In this Issue:

• Ride for the Future Today with Jim Hicks 35:01

At the beginning of a horse’s riding career knowing where you are going should guide the choices that you make. Preserving softness as you develop feel is imperative and in this lesson Jim Hicks takes us along for a ride on a talented young horse and gives us some ways to advance a horse’s education without sacrificing natural lightness.

• Riding the Steps of the Horse with Ellen Eckstein 1:04:18

If riding is forceful the horse probably does not understand what is being asked of him. Ellen Eckstein incorporates the insights she learned from Tom Dorrance into her dressage instruction in a way that creates lightness and clarity between horse and rider. In a lesson with longtime student Jessica Kent they work on the foundation movement that enables the work they do later on flying changes.

•  Working a Gate Horseback with Lee Smith 35:39

Lee Smith and her students take the foundation she outlined in the last issue to a variety of gates. You can watch some situations where horse and rider need a little extra help and some options for different kinds of gates you might encounter when you head out to give this a try.

• The Importance of Lateral Bend with Alicia Byberg 20:14

Working with off-the-track Thoroughbreds presents a set of challenges that many riders find daunting. In this lesson Alicia Byberg illustrates the importance of lateral bend for ensuring a rider’s safety and having the ability to help a horse recover if he gets into a bad situation. Alicia takes the foundation she demonstrated in the prior lesson from the ground and up into the saddle.