Perry  Wood

Why do we sometimes think we need to reinvent the wheel: horses haven’t really changed that much in a very long time. They are still...

Everyone talks about 'the bend.' Even when you first start to ride the teacher will shout things like: "bend him around your inside leg"...

Two observations have caught my attention this week with my horses. The first concerns putting my old very dominant mare out in the...

I’ve thought a lot over the years about how we keep and work horses. Even the concept of ‘owning’ a horse, a creature we buy with money...

Much to do with the process of riding involves a sense of rhythm and incredibly precise timing. What I’m most interested in talking about...

Many things happen when we first get taught to ride and many pieces of misleading information get transferred into our riding and our...

We have probably all had experiences as a rider where an instructor changes something quite tiny in our riding position and it feels SO...

I have been present recently at two days of saddle fittings. It is valuable to have someone on the ground who intimately understands the...

Here is an important question, it is something I have been talking about recently in the dismounted discussions on my clinics… “What’s in...

Some time back around the turn of the century I rode a reactive little Lusitano x Fell pony on a clinic with American trainer Mark...