Last year during lockdown I was inspired to deepen my learning of equine behaviour, so I studied a module in Equine Behaviour from the University of Guelph. The final part of the assessment was to write a case study about an area of equine behaviour that interested me. I chose bucking as an example of […]

RE-PRINTED WITH PERMISSION The title of this essay is above. Release, Relief, Reward. As a rider I have not separated these terms in my head until recent years. I learned to ride and train horses in a traditional manner and embraced the “Classical Dressage” principles as the basis for my riding and training for decades. […]

Several years ago, I drove up to Los Angeles to do a day of equine sessions. Arriving in the early morning, I walked over to the dressage arena. It was one of those delightful mornings with the fog hanging low and the sun just starting to peek through.  There was a rider on a beautiful […]

RE-PRINTED WITH PERMISSION I wrote this blog several weeks ago, since then things have changed a great deal and we now find ourselves dealing with a new way of living and working. As a consequence we can’t teach lessons face to face at the moment but we are working online instead. We will have more […]