The title of this essay is above. Release, Relief, Reward. As a rider, I have not separated these terms in my head until recent years. I learned to ride and train horses in a traditional manner and embraced the “Classical Dressage” principles as the basis for my riding and training for decades…

Last year during lockdown I was inspired to deepen my learning of equine behaviour, so I studied a module in Equine Behaviour from the University of Guelph. The final part of the assessment was to write a case study about an area of equine behaviour that interested me. I chose bucking as an example of ..

Dressage Trainer: Jane McCloud – A Long-Standing History

I wrote this blog several weeks ago, since then things have changed a great deal and we now find ourselves dealing with a new way of living and working. As a consequence, we can’t teach lessons face to face at the moment but we are working online instead. We will have more…