Learning equitation was a rite of passage for French nobility. François Robichon de La Guérinière is regarded as the "father of French equitation", and his...

canter), halt, and rein back, but not the gallop. The British Horse Society equitation examinations also require proficiency in the gallop as distinct from the...

Grisone's "The Rules of Riding" was published in 1550, the first treatise on equitation in over a thousand years since Xenophon's On Horsemanship. Much about...

Piaffe and the Passage. The Piaffe is essentially created by asking the horse to trot in place, with very little forward motion. The Passage (rhymes with...

asked for the high degree of collection and complex maneuvers, such as the passage and piaffe, required of dressage horses. Hyperflexion has become more common...

(2021, p. 9) Mirac, Colette (2021). Métamorphose : les secrets d'une équitation sans mors basée sur les lois naturelles du cheval (in French). Bordeaux:...

driving and other disciplines. equine Any member of the genus Equus.: 72  equitation 1.  The skill of riding a horse.: 72–73  2.  A term for competitive horse...

Of Dressage". Chronicle of the Horse. Retrieved 2014-04-22. "Classical Equitation". Spanish Riding School. Archived from the original on 2006-05-22. Retrieved...

finally recognized as a permanent part of the U.S. armed forces with the passage of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act of 1948. The Women Airforce...

creation of the French League for the Protection of the Horse and the passage of the Grammont Law in 1850. Similar concerns over animal welfare developed...