“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.”
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Alois Podhajsky
Alois Podhajsky, a prominent writer, was born on February 24, 1898, and passed away on May 23, 1973. His works have been beloved by readers and have had a profound impact on later generations. more
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Source: The Complete Training of Horse and Rider
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