“Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.” IfsNeedsShouldArtFactsAgeSchoolIndividualLevelsTeacherFourStudentsSucceedTenProveTrainingHigh SchoolOppositesHorseFoundationTrainEightDancerShakesLengthMatureBalletRidingSeemingTime Of NeedDressageBallet TeachersClassical Art Author:Alois Podhajsky
“The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure” ArtSchoolPleasureMovementExerciseQuietHigh SchoolHorseTrainBrilliantObjectivesRidingSmoothObedientSuppleClassical Art Book:The Complete Training of Horse and Rider Source: The Complete Training of Horse and Rider
