Classical Dressage Art in Motion

It's been said over and over but it bears repeating. When you select a horse trainer it's important that you choose the best possible partner option for the individual horse.  The wonderful Majik WVH, homebred sired by Maronjo out of a Grande mare was the first horse we ever sent out for training. The trainer later bought him and competed him and kept him until he was well over 20 years old. If you have a sloth like gelding, that simply doesn't get excited about much in life, then the choice of who can start and train the horse is much wider than if you have a young mare that has had plenty of handling but that has not seen much of the world and has been closely bonded with one individual or two individuals over her life time. Mares are commonly more difficult to start than a gelding, hormones and their intuition and instinct are key reasons why a mare must be asked to do something not told. If they don't trust you and regard you as being 51% in charge of t...