Tuning your horse - Sara Wyche

"Riding in tune" depends on a rider having a highly developed sense of rhythm, distinguishing a walk from a trot or a trot from a canter. In a world where our ears are constantly assailed by noise, it’s easy for our natural sense of rhythm to become distorted, making it difficult to "hear" the rhythm of the horse and to avoid perpetuating faults, which can ultimately result in multilimbed lameness. Tuning Your Horse shows how the use of music in training can help to reeducate certain aspects of hearing to restore the rider's inner sense of rhythm, which can have far-reaching, beneficial effects?not just on the horse's performance in the dressage arena but on his overall well-being. Music calms, animates, and controls; it is a gadget-free way of encouraging horse and rider to go forward while at the same time helping them to stay in balance.