Love how positive and supportive you are, Laura, using positive comments for correction and the soft, encouraging tenor of your voice which is fabulous for the rider and transmits ultimately to the horse! Kudos! I'm sharing this with two, talented young women at Timbach Farm in Southern Indiana who have just joined the farm as their Young Horse Trainers and are working with a great group of beautiful horses. Kirsten Fada and Jessica Stein. Owner of the farm is KC Dunn, MD who is my cousin. I worked on a search to identify new talent for her farm and found both Kirsten and Jessica at a farm in CA.
The curb bit: often not understood and mainly used incorrectly, it is systematically wrongly used in modern dressage sport, namely for poll flexion. A false image of the curb bit has emerged in the minds of the people, so to speak, the image of a compulsory instrument. However, the curb bit may never be used as a compulsive device, it is a signal instrument, and only useful for one-handed reins guidance.
Love how positive and supportive you are, Laura, using positive comments for correction and the soft, encouraging tenor of your voice which is fabulous for the rider and transmits ultimately to the horse! Kudos! I'm sharing this with two, talented young women at Timbach Farm in Southern Indiana who have just joined the farm as their Young Horse Trainers and are working with a great group of beautiful horses. Kirsten Fada and Jessica Stein. Owner of the farm is KC Dunn, MD who is my cousin. I worked on a search to identify new talent for her farm and found both Kirsten and Jessica at a farm in CA.
The curb bit: often not understood and mainly used incorrectly, it is systematically wrongly used in modern dressage sport, namely for poll flexion. A false image of the curb bit has emerged in the minds of the people, so to speak, the image of a compulsory instrument. However, the curb bit may never be used as a compulsive device, it is a signal instrument, and only useful for one-handed reins guidance.
Disaster to let behind the vertical riding be the role model for ''right'' riding. And if the brake isn't applied the horse understand the leg better.