Manolo is keen to work with the horse from beginning to end, ensuring that the horse continues to work with a head and a neck which is not compromised. One where the head and neck are given the freedom to ensure that no part of the horse is compromised. Watch the "exclusive" video of Manolo as he begins working this horse in the beginning stages of lateral work.

Lightness? Or is it? No contact or behind the bit from drawreins to rollkur, at which point is lightness real?

Training the horse to the trailer can be fraught with peril. And also frustrating. Why is it that we sometimes continue to have problems with trailering even once the horse is trained?

Keeping Rabbits Instead. Sometimes it seems it would just be easier to keep rabbits instead. One rider shares her frustration and her realizations as she looks through her own journey and her Search for Improvement !

The usual theory put forward as to why horses are one-sided like this is that it is the way the foetus lay in the womb. However, it is now considered more likely due to the fact that the horse has - as do all mammals - a split brain, with the two hemispheres responsible for controlling different functions.

Let's say our hypothetical horse is Stiff Left / Hollow Right. The obvious signs of this to the rider will be a heaviness in the left rein, difficulties in turning/bending - the horse will fall in on the left rein and out on the right rein and problems in canter depart. The horse is crooked.

These pictures were not difficult to get. These are the real life moments of what happens to the average horse working on the draw rein. If we look close enough.

Do not let your eye be fooled by the curve of the neck, the silky sheen of the well groomed warm coat glistening in the sun.

The conversation continues... From what it is like as a breeder selling her horses, to how different each lesson has to be, to the one thing that inspired her most about Oliveira.