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Flatwork

  • Lower- and upper-level movements

  • Pace, impulsion, bending, and transitions

  • Longeing and planning your work session

  • Leg-yield, shoulder-in, travers, renvers, and half-pass

  • Flying changes, counter canter, and modified pirouettes

Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Jump Courses

  • Cavalletti and gymnastics

  • Analyzing distances, and setting and walking courses

  • Combinations, turns, and jumping on an angle

  • Narrow, end, single, and novelty fences

Horse and Rider Problem Solving

  • Developing a better eye

  • Strengthening rider position

  • Memorizing courses

  • Preventing the horse from rushing fences or cutting corners

  • Correcting disobediences, such as refusals

  • Calming the anxious horse at shows

Judging and Being Judged

  • Frame, movement, and performance under saddle

  • Form faults, flight path, pace, and impulsion over fences

  • A comparative guide to judging defects in conformation classes

  • Equitation position and performance on the flat and over fences

  • An insider’s look at the judge’s system of numerical scoring and notation

USEF Tests 1–19

  • Tips for training and showing

  • Advice for judging riders on the flat and over fences