horsemagazine – Page 38 – The Horse Magazine

Jane Savoie – A tribute

January 6th, 2021
The American dressage team rider, author and coach, Jane Savoie has died. We pay tribute to her with an extract from her first book that explains how to correctly lengthen your horse's stride... Read Article Comments Off

How German are the German FN rankings?

January 5th, 2021
The German Equestrian Federation's breeding values reflect the changing face of sporthorse breeding, we find that there are lots of stallions starring on the list that are not German... Read Article Comments Off

Ranking the rankings…

December 31st, 2020
The breeding website hippomundo has launched two new ranking to measure the success of breeders of jumping horses - we examine the results, and meet some of the top breeders... Read Article Comments Off

Miguel Tavora – Thinking Horseman – Part 5 – Teaching Teachers

December 29th, 2020
In this last of our five part series in remembrance of the late Miguel Tavora, the Master teaches a student who is also a coach, and reflects on the place of the old masters of equitation in today’s environment… Read Article 1 Comment »

Pole Dancing for Horses – Exercise 2

December 28th, 2020
Lesley Brodbeck is back with another simple and effective pole exercise to improve your horse's way of going... Read Article Comments Off

Pole Dancing for Dressage Horses – Exercise 1

December 24th, 2020
International eventer, Lesley Brodbeck has designed a series of exercises using poles on the ground to help educate and gymnasticize horses, here's the first of our exercises to give you something to do over Christmas... Read Article Comments Off

Miguel Tavora – The Thinking Horseman – Part 4

In this series of articles, Portuguese master of classical equitation, Miguel Tavora, outlines his fusion of Iberian, French and German principles, this time working with a horse just moving into the FEI classes... Read Article 1 Comment »

Miguel Tavora – Thinking Horseman – Part 3

December 21st, 2020
The late Miguel Tavora was a Portuguese Master of Classical Education, based in Australia. He trained many Grand Prix horses, and in this episode, he works with a talented young dressage rider, Robbie Soster on a rather unusual horse... Read Article Comments Off

Miguel Tavora – Thinking Horseman – Part 2

December 15th, 2020
Three years ago the world lost a great horseman, Miguel Tavora. In the second of this series of five articles published in tribute, Miguel talks about the role of the Iberian horse in competition dressage... Read Article Comments Off

Miguel Tavora – Thinking Horseman – Part 1 – The Young Horse

December 11th, 2020
The master horseman Miguel Tavora died just on three years ago. This series of articles highlights his teaching - teaching that sought to combine the best of the world's classical traditions... Read Article 4 Comments »