--- In [email protected], "Karen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I keep going back to the name of Jane's good book - > Cross Train Your Horse. In Jane's book, she quotes a couple of gaited horse > trainers who use dressage as some of their foundation training, trotting > their horses too - not at all unlike what Liz Graves teaches. It's not > about dressage-as-an-end-goal, but about the practical benefits of some > basic dressage principles - even though she herself has ridden to the > Olympic level.
I will definitely second the value of this book. The 2nd book in this series - "More Cross-Training: Build a Better Athlete with Dressage" - is equally good. I'm a huge fan, and you can buy the pair of books on Amazon.com for less than $50. ~Nick
