This book is one of the ‘bibles’ of classical horsemanship, and a foundational work for what was German horsemanship for a century or more. In reviewing it I run the risk of being seen as heretical – not because I would in any way challenge the content or legacy of […]
I always hate to disappoint my readers, but this post may raise more questions than it provides answers. There exists no single definition or understanding of ‘Classical’ with regard to riding. Many have tried, and many definitions are very close to each other – but that is only at a […]
Someone recently posted a question on Facebook, asking what one thing people would tell a new beginning rider to do or learn. Much of the advice focused on more advanced […]
Since I did my first book review on a work that is nearing the end of its first century, it seemed fitting that my next be something literally hot off the presses. In fact, this book is not yet available in some countries – coming to the UK in August, […]
We’ve all had that day when we went to the barn with a plan. Today you would tackle that jumping grid. This would be the day you mastered a flying […]
I’ve chosen as my first book review the first serious riding book I ever owned. A gift from a friend around the time I got my first horse, I have read and reread it many times over the decades. I’ve also loaned it to my students many times over the […]
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them […]
I love science. I always have. We owe many great things in our lives to science. I was lucky to have a riding mentor who devoured what science he could […]
You may hear someone refer to their horse as a partner. It is a frequent theme in many older writings – that you are creating a willing partner in your […]
It has been nearly a month between my first post and now. I was not ready to launch the site when it was Nash’s time to leave us; but, as my mother is wont to say, “Needs must when the Devil drives!” When I lost my Ben, companion of 28 […]
The Literate Equine 