Horse’s tack; Rider’s Position; Basic flatwork – The Walk, Flexion and suppleness, Moving away from the leg; The Trot; The Canter, The Flying Change, The use of Cavaletti; Starting to Jump, Balanced Jumping, A balanced jumping position, Regularity in the stride, Riding a spread, Approaching a single fence at canter, Distance for take off, Maintaining rhythm, Maintaining contact; Jumping a course; ...
Dressage, the equestrian practice in which a horse makes highly precise movements in response to barely perceptible signals from the rider, has taken hold of America's equestrians. Participation rates have risen by 200 percent over the past twenty years, as baby-boomer riders have discovered dressage to be less strenuous and dangerous than jumping, yet offering the satisfaction of mastering techni...
Patrick meets and becomes friends with Houston Jones, a horse trainer with a bad reputation. Patrick starts training to compete in the Derby Cup, but town bully and five-time champion Randy will do anything to win and keep Patrick and the pretty new girl, Jill, from being together.
Based on several episodes of the hit ABC television series THE SADDLE CLUB, HORSE CRAZY follows the adventures of several young girls on the Pine Hollows horse farm. Between school, riding, boys, and typical adolescent drama, the girls of the ranch are never bored. They're in for even more excitement, however, when Skye Ransom, a young teenage heartthrob, comes to the farm to shoot a film. While m...
Ryan Merriman stars in this moving, harrowing drama as Jim Rabb, a Union soldier mired in the hellish violence of the Civil War whose life and fate are changed in unexpected ways when his beloved mare gives birth.
After discovering her late father once married a rodeo queen, an attorney travels into horse country and finds more family.
In Disney's first dramatic feature made specifically for the giant screen, Walt Disney Pictures is proud to present the continuation of a family favorite and a story that has enthralled generations of readers. The "Young Black Stallion," a prequel to the 1979 classic, presents the horse's adventures with a young girl named Neera, who has been separated from her father in Arabia by WWII. Left alone...
Stripes is a zebra with the heart of a champion and a special dream: to run in Kentucky's most prestigious horse race! A barnyard full of talking animals provides lot of wisequacking, horse sense and baa-baabacktalk as spunky Stripes teams with the young jockey, Channing Walsh, to train for the winner's circle. Will Channing and stripes be ready for the ride ' and the adventure ' of their lives?
Double Olympion International Dressage rider Richard Davison, is joined by show jumping legend John Whitaker and his son Robert for fascinating and comprehensive instruction on the flat and over jumps, as Richard's dressage expertise is moulded with the Whitakers' jumping prowess. 85 minutes
In this DVD Pippa sets out a new series of exercises to help assess the new horse and then deal with and work on some of the common problems. Three horses of differing ability and experience are used in flatwork and showjumping exercises with Pippa riding the 4 and 6 year olds and then teaching a pupil on the third more experienced but older horse. Run Time: 90 mins
Rugged cowboy Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen) is an expert horseman who performs in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. When affluent Sheik Riyadh (Omar Sharif), piqued by tales of Hopkins' talent, challenges Hopkins to prove himself in a treacherous long-distance horse race called the Ocean of Fire, Hopkins is forced to oblige. In the Middle East with his American mustang, he must race against thoroug...
As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished. Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father's New Hampshire horse farm. Jobless and abandoned, she is bringing her troubled teenage ...