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• Video Discussion # 88: This short video shows a great example of a rider riding truly *forward* in a trot to walk transition!
• Video # 85: This is Lija jumping a keyhole fence!
• Question # 267: My horse used to be a very bold and confident jumper. We competed to Training level very successfully. Then I took a year off because I had a baby. And now that I am back to riding, I feel like I have a different horse....
• Video # 82: This is Vita doing a Dressage test!
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• Discussion # 104: What is wrong with this rider's lower leg position?
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• Question # 231: What I am struggling with is refusals, mostly confidence issues, spooking at fillers etc. I have found speed can sometimes be our friend, it looks out of control but the only times we have gone clear are when he's speeding!!!
• Getting Through the Trot Up At a Three Day Event
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• Video # 61: This is Catherine!
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• The Rein Back
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• Question # 97: I have an 11yo OTTB who is a roarer and whom I am competing at novice level this year. We are doing great on XC and in SJ, but we are struggling in dressage.
• Question # 63: Do you have a remedy for the horse who sometimes jumps a jump and then does about one canter stride and stops, props and bucks? (Vita)
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