Hannah Weybright
Lightness Anew
Sometimes, the most important lessons horses teach us happen at the most unlikely points in our lives. For me, the path to lightness came...
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Hannah Weybright
Nov 173 min read
Stereotypes
The crazy, spooky Arabian. The dumb Warmblood who won’t stay sound. The runaway Thoroughbred with four bad feet. The stubborn pony. I...
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Hannah Weybright
Nov 163 min read
Working a Gate: Why and How
When I used to show Western horses, the trail class was always something I looked forward to. I don’t show much anymore, but I still use...
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Hannah Weybright
Nov 152 min read
One Exception to the Goldilocks Rule...
There is one exception to the Goldilocks rule of “not too much, not too little” that serves us so well in every other aspect of good...
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Hannah Weybright
Nov 143 min read
The Shift In Today's Horse Industry
I’ve been reading (and writing) a lot about the shift happening in today’s horse industry - from competitive goals to progress based on...
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Hannah Weybright
Nov 132 min read
Singing Wires
When telegraph lines first arrived in the Western US, Native Americans referred to them as singing wires - a description as poetic as it...
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Katrin Silva
Nov 94 min read
Good Old Days?
I regularly come across social media posts bemoaning the decline of correct riding in our modern age. Many armchair experts blame this on...
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Hannah Weybright
Nov 23 min read
“Ponies are so stubborn!”
Are they really? Or are they just misunderstood? I grew up riding ponies. I have continued to ride ponies throughout my career. Not fancy...
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Hannah Weybright
Nov 22 min read
“My horse is so lazy!”
I hear this about a lot of horses. I used to say it about a lot of horses. But most horses we call lazy are not lazy at all. Some of them...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 312 min read
"Neutral" is not a word we normally use to describe great horsemanship.
"Neutral" sounds bland, boring, and blah. It makes us yawn. It does not conjure up images of horse and rider dancing together in perfect...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 312 min read
Riding horses is a two-way conversation.
The technical knowledge of how to talk to your horse, of which aids to give so the horse knows which maneuver to perform, is one part of...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 312 min read
Good teachers are hard to find.
What makes a teacher good? That’s a difficult question. It’s easier to point out what does not: Not a German accent, or an Australian...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 293 min read
I used to feel dissatisfied with the trajectory of my career in the horse world...
I felt like I was treading water, while everyone around me moved ahead. Opportunities to compete at a high level never seemed to...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 292 min read
How can we tell whether our contact is the good kind?
If we want our horses to become happy athletes, if we want our work to build them up over time instead of breaking them down, we need to...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 222 min read
Without a rider on their backs, most horses move with grace, ease, and confidence.
If you’ve ever started a horse under saddle, if you’ve ever felt a horse take those first tentative, wobbly trot steps with you on his...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 211 min read
How can we tell whether the work we ask our horses to do is correct?
One way is to look at the quality of their gaits. Good work does not impair rhythm, cadence, and elasticity. Correct training makes a...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 191 min read
If I had to sum up what I’ve learned from 30-plus years of working with horses, it would be this:
More is not always better. Extremely low or high neck positions rarely lead to harmony or long-term soundness. Riding forward is good,...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 182 min read
More Is Not Always Better: The Outside Rein
If you’ve ever taken a dressage lesson, you may have heard the words “More outside rein!” - probably not just once. But like with so much...
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Hannah Weybright
Oct 162 min read
More Is Not Always Better: Seat and Position
The quest for the best possible seat is a search for middle ground: We want our heels to be low, because we want our lower leg to be...
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Katrin Silva
May 214 min read
The Helmet and I: A Complicated Story
I was born in 1970 and started riding horses when I was seven. In those days, at least in Germany, no one wore a helmet, except for...
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