{"id":58417,"date":"2021-04-20T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=58417"},"modified":"2021-04-21T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:19:43","slug":"top-tips-from-george-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2021\/04\/top-tips-from-george-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips from George Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">George Morris, who literally wrote the book on jumping position, comments on top riders over the CHIO course. Wisdom, great riders, great course:<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1Coster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1Coster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1Coster.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1Coster-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/1Coster-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very good example of the release versus the crest release, this is what we call the automatic release. Here you have a straight line, elbow to the horse&#8217;s mouth and the hands are alongside the neck. The horse is very attentive, it is a spectacular horse, very good behind, and he is giving the water quite a bit of height which always ensures you get across the tape. This is a textbook display.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See more here, and read George\u2019s comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"3uVoUFsAtk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2019\/01\/showjumping-style-with-george-morris\/\">Showjumping Style with George Morris<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Showjumping Style with George Morris&#8221; &#8212; The Horse Magazine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2019\/01\/showjumping-style-with-george-morris\/embed\/#?secret=paquKMmyxg#?secret=3uVoUFsAtk\" data-secret=\"3uVoUFsAtk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Morris, who literally wrote the book on jumping position, comments on top riders over the CHIO course. Wisdom, great riders, great course: \u201cThis is a very good example of the release versus the crest release, this is what we call the automatic release. Here you have a straight line, elbow to the horse&#8217;s mouth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"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":[81,6],"tags":[1970,71,2177],"class_list":["post-58417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-show-jumping","tag-aachen-chio","tag-george-morris","tag-showjumping-style"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58417","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=58417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58444,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58417\/revisions\/58444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}