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"Loved the new Issue!!!" Video of Albert Ostermaier in black and white footage, working in performance with his Black Lipizzan Stallion. Join us in conversation with Ross Harper-Lewis. Take a look: is it a problem horse or are you dealing with instinctual behaviour, and what difference can that make in your training?
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Ross Harper-Lewis, from competitor to a
civilian student with The Portuguese Calvary School to working with
Mestre Nuno for 5 years, to breeder and an instructor. Ross has a
wealth of experience coupled with a graciousness that is as welcoming
as it is welcome. Join us in conversation. 
The Purple Pony shares how skiing and the sitting trot can be an imagery that can help riders sit the trot!
What is Habituation? Habituation - a training method that can be found
within all other training methods. The method by which we ALL train our
horses. Learn what habituation is and improve your training.
Once upon a time, in a country far, far away, a small, silver,
moonshine stallion left the only home he had ever known. He travelled
for five long, dusty days to a country far, far to the north. He knew
he had to go, he knew that he was needed, but he was already fourteen
years old and the journey was very slow and very tiring indeed looking for one certain soul.
Train the young foal from the left side when you first start leading
him and he soon becomes accustomed to you leading him from that
side. But try to lead him from the right side later in life and
it is like he has never learned how to lead. The horse becomes nervous
and upset. Some horses startle and jump around nervously; other
horses seem determined to get you back on the left side where they seem
to think that you belong.
Well, it has finally been confirmed...dressage horses are
dumb. Not only are they dumb but they are the dumbest of all horses from all
disciplines. You may think this is a joke, but... “A recent study shows that, ......
Preserving the knowledge of those horsemen without whom this world would be
a much bleaker and less wise place. In some ways, I feel we are in a cusp, a
moment in history, where the last generation of horsemen is not going to be with
us much longer, a generation that in many ways is our last bridge between the rich
knowledge and history of our equestrian past and today
First, what does the word "classical" mean? Not so surprisingly, the
dictionary provides us with a lot of definitions covering an extensive
scope of domains and somewhat contradictory. For instance, "classical"
applies as well for what is aristocratic (reserved, elegant, sober) as
for that which is banal or trite ("a classical case of embezzlement"). 
Most horses are hard-wired to operate under the notion that something
is threatening until proven otherwise. So in
their initial encounters with humans, many horses will feel anxious or
threatened and they’ll go into flight mode, even if they don’t actually
flee. If they are not taught how to come out of that state, they
can learn to do everything they do with humans in this defensive state
of being, a default state of being.