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Ride for the Sake of the Horse — not Yours!

Don’t ride for the sake of riding, Ride to help your horse develop! by Rivkah Roth DO DNM “Like Rider like horse, like horse like rider” is a sentence I coined in the 1980s as an expression of the mutual influence on each other’s body, i.e. rider seat vs. horse movement and body use, and…
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Blue Tongues

Not the Problem but A Result! by Rivkah Roth DO DNM Blue tongues are unacceptable! And hiding them with contraptions, fluff, and the likes is not only unsportsmanlike, but tells about training shortcuts of horse and/or rider, or of total disrespect of the horse. Yet, blue tongues are not the original problem. They are almost…
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Eye Schooling

The dressage world is waking up by Rivkah Roth DO DNM A new generation of riders is looking to get trained along the classical criteria of systematic horse training as described by the Training Scale (Ausbildungsskala). Meanwhile, many of the international top riders still subscribe to shortcuts – possibly encouraged by dressage judges who fail…
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Reactive Horse?

Back and Neck Health Co-determine Suppleness or Resistance by Rivkah Roth DO DNM Does your horse show signs of resistance or evasive behavior? Even more so, has such behavior started after a change in its training routine, farrier work, saddle or rider? Signs that your horse has become reactive… Think about an issue within the…
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Canter Departure Quality

Predicts the quality of the flying changes by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-03-18 on coachmeto Advances level canter work stands and falls with the quality of your basic canter transitions. If your walk-canter departures are equally straight and balanced on either lead, chances are you will be able to master faultless flying changes in…
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Unfortunate Developments in Dressage

Could they be partially Saddle Related? by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2019-09-01 on coachmetoo Emotions are flying high when and where it comes to the competitive aspects of dressage. On one side, there are spectators hungry for circuslike displays of bigger-is-better movement excitement. These include horsy and non-horsy admirers of our field that is…
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Straightness

Why you May Have it All Wrong “Straight” is not “|” Straight, but “)” = “(” Even Bend by Rivkah Roth DO DNMfirst published 2016-11-08 on coachmetoo Ever since Prussian dressage master Gustav Steinbrecht (1808 to 1885) demanded, “reite Dein Pferd vorwaerts und richte es gerade” – usually translated into English way-off-the-mark as, “ride your…
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Fight for Your Horse

Many a rider knows when there is something not quite right. We must stand up for our horses.
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