RIDING BY DESIGN

Our goal is to develop a horse's poise, by helping him to build a stronger back, in order to improve performance... Horses are designed bio-mechanically for what they need to do to cope in their natural environment. It is our introduction of unnatural lifestyles and the physical demands of riding/driving that impose additional stresses which make it crucial for us to have the attitude, ‘Do No Harm'. We want to minimize the stresses so that we do not just cope in our chosen areas of interest with the horse, but actually excel in them! There is nothing like the joy of beholding a mentally and physically healthy team during their performance, whether in the back yard, at work or in a competition... Strength is only developed once there is suppleness and suppleness is not compromised in the building of strength. Suppleness is achieved when each body part is allowed to do the work it is able in a bio-mechanically correct way. It may seem that we have to go backward to find a place where..