100+ School Exercises for Dressage -- Debby Lush, Paperback

Over 100 exercises for all levels, with easy-to-understand instructions and clear diagrams. 100+ School Exercises for Dressage offers a wide range of different schooling patterns to suit all stages of training and all levels of rider and trainer experience. It is designed to be used as a reference book that can be visited again and again to seek out answers to everyday training challenges. Collected by the author over forty years of riding and training horses of all types and breeds, from backing to Grand Prix, the selection of exercises ranges from the most familiar of patterns to some rarely used but highly effective techniques specific to addressing less-common issues. The final section of the book offers sample schooling plans, explaining how to combine patterns to tackle common schooling issues, such as suppleness, straightness, connection to the outside rein, engagement and collection, and developing medium gaits and half passes.

Author: Debby Lush
Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
Published: 03/26/2024
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780719835032

About the Author
Debby Lush has been a professional dressage rider and trainer for over forty years, working with a variety of breeds and types, ranging from thoroughbreds to warmbloods, and from native ponies to Iberians. She has trained many horses, from backing right through to advanced competition levels, has coached several successful horse/rider combinations and is a British Dressage List 1 judge. She is also the author of The Building Blocks of Training and The Successful Dressage Competitor (both JA Allen).