Why should we care who Waldemar Seunig is?

Waldemar Seunig not only was a master horseman... one of the last royal Masters of the Horse in the 1900's... he also left us an incredible legacy. A legacy that we have available to us to use today to learn more about horsemanship, about our riding and training and about our horses.

This Article could have been entitled ..."The Purpose of the Bit"

or maybe even..."The Importance of Stretching to the Horse"

or maybe even..."Truncated Necks"

or maybe even.. "How to Find the Bascule"

or maybe even ..."The Truth about Riding Round"

The true story of a rider and a horse that found within each other, a special moment, a special gift that each probably never expected to recieve.

Healing Horses a Series of Articles on the Healing Power of the Horse

In this article through the words of Seunig we explore the concept of the The Plumb Line.. the Center of Gravity

and how does this relate to overtracking, undertracking and tracking up?

Is overtracking good? Undertracking bad?

Join us in the surprising answers we find in Seunigs words!!

We often hear riders and instructors talking about horses being on the forehand, or being collected. Have you ever wondered how you can really tell?

How can you just look at a horse and know beyond a shadow of a doubt, know how the horse is balanced.

Discover this easy, and non-disputable way to evaluate every horse!

Cheval Passion or the Avignon Horse "fair" - a major event in the French horse world that has been delighting crowds with its own specific blend of the South for the past twenty years.

Peer within as we share Wynmalen's wisdom on the one right way to achieve a true collected walk. The collected walk is the gait that is most often incorrectly trained. Wynmalen can show you the pitfalls that you need to avoid, and the path that will make this the most complicated collection, easy. That it was within respecting the true nature of the walk that the path to collection can be discovered.

Can we really expect to work without emotional involvement, emotional attachment with our horses? Should we?

Are we working with our horses under false pretenses?

Having worked with dozens of horses, here is one experienced equestrians answer to this age old question.

We are pleased to provide FREE access, IN MEMORY OF AN INCREDIBLE HORSEMAN, to this incredible two part series by Hans von Blixen-Finecke. He was a former Commandant of the Swedish Cavalry School. He was a successful steeplechase, jumping, dressage and event rider, winning the Olympic Gold medal in eventing at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He also trained the Gold medal winner Master Rufus of Henry St. Cyr. In this reprinted series, he shares his experiences acquired in a lifelong work with horses.

Of course after the story of the Black Stallion, there was a small part of every young girl that had the dream of the beautiful black stallion. We all dreamed of finding a wild stallion that would only respond to us, whose beauty and wildness was all tied up together. Who wouldn’t let any one else ride him. The small beautiful Arabian head on the lean and powerful body of a thoroughbred that Farley Mowett described was the horse on every young girls dreams.

Read this true story. An incredible story told of a black Trakehner stallion coal black, beautiful, gorgeous, his coal black coat that literally mirrored the blue sky, so brilliant was his coat, regal, a powerful animal, who proclaimed his kingship with his every proud move, with his very glance, who barely touched the ground as he floated through the air.

Many moons ago. I had the great fortune to read Dressage &CT. An incredible magazine that made me think, like few magazines have before or afterwards. It challenged me. In some ways it made me the horse person I am today, from the knowledge that I gleaned from between its pages. Through Dressage &CT I became aware of riders and masters that I had never known before. Masters like Nuno Oliveira, that I read about through the words of Bettina Drummond, also I got to read incredible articles by Henriquet, Racinet, Jean Luc Cornille, all of them shaping my training, my expectations of what could be possible.

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September 2005 Volume 1 

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