An exemplary video showing highlights of Frank Grelo. This unique video invites you to relish in his joy and his sense of fun!  Frank shows us the passage by a lake side, Zorro dancing by the fire, riding without reins and much more.

Share in a lesson. A lesson where both the instructor and the rider share what they saw and felt. A lesson where the power of releasing to the horse created changes that surprised both of them.

The health of the human body is judged by its range of movement.  Why then have we not made this same assessment of range of movement a fundamental element in working with horses?  It is essential that we -  the riders, trainers, and instructors - develop our awareness of what full range of movement is, and use this as our guideline of good riding. 

How Frank Grelo demonstrated that you can direct that phenomenal energy - energy that you haven't necessarily asked for - and mold it into spectacular movements.

From the book "Bit by Bit" by Winnie Stott.

Do the FEI's standards of judging bring to mind Hans Christian Anderson's tale of The Emperor's New Clothes?   If so, then you are not alone!   There is a growing number of people who disagree with the state of competition dressage and the methods used by many top riders in their efforts to win at any cost.  But what will it take for the standards to change?

A beautiful little girl, shoulder length dark chocolate brown hair, blue eyes that were never seen. Never seen because she didn't have the strength to hold her own head up.  You could spend hours with this happy, bright child and never see her eyes as she sat before you, her tiny body just too weak to hold up her head, her neck bowed before everyone.

The Caspian, described by some as an Arabian in miniature, is a very old breed.  Some believe the breed may go back as far as 3,000 years. When we look at the trots of our modern horses, especially the warmbloods as bred today, again and again we hear about impure trots, trots that are not truly diagonalized, trots that see little air time with all four feet off the ground. The Caspian shows some really good movement - movement at a trot where we seem to easily catch that moment when all four feet are off the ground and the horse is in suspension.

We have two sides to our head and two sides to our seat.  So should either one make a difference in our riding? And how?