Maintaining the Horse's Length of Neck in Transitions

I will never forget the first time that I attended the USET training sessions down in Ocala, Florida many years ago...... I was so excited to watch all of the top Event riders receive dressage instruction from Grand Prix dressage trainer Sandy Pflueger Phillips, who was the dressage coach for the Eventing Team at the time.

I was fully expecting to be wowed by watching hours of top horses and riders schooling upper level movements. But that was not the case! Instead, Sandy had every rider work on just one basic thing for their entire lesson....and it proved to be very difficult indeed!...(Click on Article Title above (in blue) to read full article)