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Mastering the fundamentals of horseback riding is an important part of becoming a good rider. These 19 beginner horse riding exercises will help you learn the fundamental skills necessary.19 Beginner Horse Riding Exercises to Shake Up Your Routine | Helpful Horse Hints

This is the most complicated transition pattern of our 4-week series. Take it to your barn this weekend!

These exercises involving poles will help improve your control and accuracy, as well as finessing your horse's paces

In the process of planning a horse camp, I had to pick all the day’s activities for on and off the horse. It was honestly a super fun, yet challenging process. And even though the games and c…

To ace this western riding pattern you'll need to ride fluidly and precisely, and with perfect timing.

Henry is wild so very rarely that it’s nothing but hilarious to me when he gets to feeling frisky. Mostly because his frisky is a lot of head twisting, and maybe the tiniest most pathetic cro…

Contact, to the average rider, seems to refer only to the contact through the rein, but really, contact is communication with your horse and the rein is just one form of that communication. There are a couple of other points of contact, being your hips and seat, your legs through your thigh and calf, and your heel and foot.

If you’re an equestrian, you’ve no doubt heard of No Stirrup November. It’s when riders all over the globe try riding without stirrups. Some of them go bareback and some remove th…

Swinging legs present a real problem for dressage riders as it results in an unstable position and interferes with your leg aids.

Challenge Day 18 More Ground Pole Work I don't think you can ever do to much ground pole work. It gives you something new and different to do with your