Horse training

Dressage ( or ; , most commonly translated as "training") is a form of horse riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an art sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined by the International Equestrian Federation, dressage is described as "the highest expression of horse training" where the rider executes a memorised sequence of predetermined movements, directing the horse through the test using coordinated leg, seat, and rein aids.

method of training animals

thumb|A horse in training for equestrian vaulting at the halt on a longe line

thumb|Artist's rendition of a horse undergoing exercise under heavy hyperflexion. Rollkur or '''hyperflexion of the horse's neck''' is defined as "flexion of the horse's neck achieved through aggressive force" and is banned in International and Olympic sanctioned equestrian sports by the governing body, the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI). The FEI recognises a distinction between rollkur and the riding of the horse in a deep outline not achieved by force.

collective term for a variety of horse training techniques

practices to teach horses certain behaviors

book

Hipparchicus ('', Hipparchikós) is one of the two treatises on horsemanship by the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon Other common titles for this work include The cavalry commander and The cavalry general. The other work by Xenophon on horsemanship is , Perì hippikēs, usually translated as On horsemanship, De equis alendis or The Art of Horsemanship. The title De re equestri may refer to either one of the two works. Hipparchicus deals mainly with the duties of the cavalry commander (hipparchus), while On horsemanship'' deals with the selection, care and training of horses in general.

series of classical dressage movements in which the horse leaves the ground

practice of hitting a horse on the legs as it goes over a jump

thumb|A single cavaletti or cavaletto, set to its intermediate height thumb|Cavaletti – 3 possible height settings thumb|Modern molded plastic cavaletti standards, placed at highest setting and used as a jump thumb|Simple ground rails used as cavaletti thumb|Cones used as cavaletti standards to define a corridor for a free jumping horse Cavaletti (also spelled cavalletti, singular (rarely used in English) cavaletto) (Italian: "little horse") are small jumps, originally made of wood, used for basic horse training. Most consist of rails that are about wide, and long. The rails are inserted into