Favorite National / International Trainer's Tips and Quotes

Clinton Anderson

"Horses don't have hard mouths they have hard bodies"

"Make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy"

"Exaggerate to teach, refine as you go along"

"Horses are an on going maintenance program"

"If a horse has enough energy and stamina to do the wrong thing, he has enough energy to do the right thing"

Kyra Kyrkland

"You must go where I say, how I say, and when I say, because I work many hours to pay your stable fees and you only have to work one hour a day". Speaking to the horse on the US Dressage Federation Video.

John Lyons

"Contrary to popular opinion, the snaffle is the safest bit to use on a nearly out-of-control horse, assuming you use it as it's designed" Communicating With Cues: Part 1, 1998, p.

"I figure that it takes at least two years to make a good saddle horse. During that time, I assume that I'm actually riding an unbroke horse." March 2000, John Lyons' Perfect Horse Magazine

Pat Parelli

"Be as gentle as a child but as firm as another horse."

"A horse travels in the directions of his hips"