{"id":57088,"date":"2021-01-18T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T04:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=57088"},"modified":"2023-07-08T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T04:37:50","slug":"top-tip-from-three-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/01\/top-tip-from-three-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tip from three Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Morris tells riders to be interested in giving, and two top riders, and trainers, agree. George also tells us: ‘It’s simple, it’s just not easy…’<\/h1>\n

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\u201cGive, give, give, be interested in giving. Of course you have to make a half halt with both your hands, but you have to get off the half halt. The half halt puts the horse on his hocks. Feel the hindleg in your hand, a steady hand. Today we have this fashion for hand riding, don\u2019t copy fashion, what is important is correctness.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Morris<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe best thing you can do for self-carriage is the give and re-take of the reins. It is amazing how you forget to do that when you ride on your own. That constant giving the hand, taking, giving, taking, making sure that the outline is stable, the mouth is soft. You only have to look at the mouth to know how it is working, the horse is carrying its own head and neck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carl Hester<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Chris Burton thinks the six-year-old test for eventers, with its giving of the rein at strategic points, is good to show the horse\u2019s training:<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a view that this ability to give the rein is very important for one-star horses, and it should be in all lower level tests, because if you are not able to ride with a forward giving hand, then it shows up. It amazes me how many top riders can\u2019t ride with a forward hand. It\u2019s a big issue, so this is why it is a great movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Burton<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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George Morris tells riders to be interested in giving, and two top riders, and trainers, agree. George also tells us: ‘It’s simple, it’s just not easy…’ \u201cGive, give, give, be interested in giving. Of course you have to make a half halt with both your hands, but you have to get off the half halt. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,4,5,6],"tags":[953,249,71],"class_list":["post-57088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-dressage","category-eventing","category-show-jumping","tag-carl-hester","tag-christopher-burton","tag-george-morris"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66718,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57088\/revisions\/66718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}