Ask any dressage person if you should practice your test before the horse show and you'll get a mixed bag of answers. Many folks,...

Today is the first day of spring! Yay! I'm so excited for longer days and warmer weather. You know what that means? Let's ride! When...

As a trainer and coach, I am surprised by how often prospective clients ask, "Dressage is so beautiful. I'd love to try it one day, but...

Groundwork! We've all heard about it. We probably even know it's a good thing to do with our horse... but where do you start? Here are...

To say we've had a little bit of rain here in Southern California recently would probably be the biggest understatement of the year! I'm...

Thank you all for the great feedback on our first post in this series! In case you missed it, I'm excited to introduce our new "Let's...

Happy January everyone! We're starting a new series here on the Team LGD blog this year: Let's Learn! In this series we're going to...

Do you want a more secure leg position? Are you constantly losing your stirrups? Do you feel like your legs and feet are bouncing all...

You guys... Steve-O went to his first horse show! This is a big event in any horse's career. For this horse, it's an especially big...

Did you know... the walk pirouette is just haunches in? On a circle! The walk pirouette first makes an appearance in Third Level but also...

It's no secret that I love me a good Thoroughbred horse. I grew up around Thoroughbreds. The owner of the stable I boarded my horse at...

Legs! As dressage horse owners, who doesn't obsess over their horses legs? <Sheepishly raises hand...> And with good reason! Our...

A standing wrap... what is it? And why would we use it? The primary purpose behind a standing wrap is to give the tendons and ligaments...

Carrots! Who doesn't love carrots? All the horses in my barn LOVE carrots! And all the humans in my barn love carrots - well, they LOVE...

The flying change - a exciting step in the dressage training journey! Is your horse ready to start learning how to do a flying change? ...

Ah, the joys of winter riding! While riding in the winter can mean lovely canters through picturesque snowy fields... more often than not...

If you're going to ride horses, you're going to fall off. It goes with the territory. Yep, shit happens even to the best riders out...

The medium trot... so beautiful to watch yet surprisingly tricky to execute. How often have you seen the comment, "Too quick" or...

We finally had some real rain last night here in SoCal... and it looks like we'll be getting more over the next few days! Lord knows our...

The canter - we ride many movements in this gait. And the higher up the levels we go, the more time we spend in canter and the more...