Dancing Down the Centerline
Dressage tests all pretty much start the same way – Enter at A and go down the center line. Sometimes you halt and sometimes you do not,...
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Danielle Perry
USDF Bronze & Silver Medalist, USDF L Graduate*, and Trainer
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Danielle Perry
- Jun 21, 2017
- 2 min
An Open Mind
Ask two people a question about any horse-related topic—health, training, tack, theory, practice, etc—and you will get three answers. ...
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Danielle Perry
- May 30, 2017
- 3 min
Singin' In The Rain!
It's a total bummer, but rain happens when you're riding! So, ride in the rain, already! OK, if it's a miserable downpour of cold rain...
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Danielle Perry
- May 23, 2017
- 3 min
Canter—Doing it! Improving it! Let it go! Loving it!
I love to canter. Really. It’s a gait you have to love on purpose, sometimes, to make it happen and improve the horse’s strength and...
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Danielle Perry
- Feb 22, 2017
- 3 min
Canter! Canter! Canter!
The last two sessions were the walk and the trot, so now on to the canter! This can be an exciting gear for us since it’s an upward shift...
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Danielle Perry
- Feb 7, 2017
- 3 min
Counting Trot Steps
So last week, we talked about the walk. You can put in a lot of 'free walk' practice in your ride to give the horse a break and as a...
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Danielle Perry
- Dec 29, 2016
- 2 min
Adjust the Ride to the Weather
The days are shorter and colder right now so it's harder to get motivated to get to the barn, tack up your horse, and ride. Then you have...
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Danielle Perry
- Dec 15, 2016
- 4 min
The Very Boring Dirty Secret to Fantastic Riding is...
I was walking a student through the aids to ask for a walk-canter transition. It was her very first. She was so intent on every word that...
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