How to Teach Your Horse to Move Off the Inside Leg with Serpentines
Five days of rain on top of the Covid-19 quarantine has me dreaming of blue skies and quality saddle time! While there is still no real...
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Laura
- Feb 23, 2020
- 3 min
How to Teach Your Horse to Leg Yield
Last time we talked about how to use the leg yield to improve the lengthened trot. Read about it here! I love this exercise, but it...
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Laura
- Jan 31, 2020
- 3 min
How to Use the Leg Yield to Improve the Trot Lengthening for your First Level Tests
It's getting to be that time of year again...crisp early mornings, long sweat-filled days, the sun setting over the barn as you finish...
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Laura
- Nov 16, 2019
- 2 min
Western States Horse Expo with Steffen Peters
Last weekend Stella and I had the privilege of participating in the Western States Horse Expo as a demo rider for the Steffen Peters...
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Laura
- Oct 17, 2019
- 3 min
Welcome Home
As you're probably aware, we know how to hustle over here at Laura G Dressage. A busy show season was followed by an unexpectedly even...
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Laura
- Sep 12, 2019
- 1 min
RAAC and Cool August Nights 2019
Congrats to Team LGD riders Sarah and Jodi! These two cleaned up at the California Dressage Society's Southern Regional Adult Amateur...
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Laura
- Aug 13, 2019
- 1 min
Team LGD July 2019
A picture is worth a thousand words... and a few blue ribbons. Needless to say, July was fun. Team LGD went out to Cornerstone's LA...
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Laura
- Jul 1, 2019
- 2 min
Team LGD June 2019
Wow! Where did the first half of 2019 go? I can't believe we'll be into July tomorrow and officially halfway with this year... and what...
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Laura
- May 31, 2019
- 1 min
Dressage at Flintridge 2019
In spite of the unseasonably chilly, rainy weather, Team LGD had a fantastic show at Dressage at Flintridge! Jodi and her Morgan gelding...
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Laura
- May 11, 2019
- 4 min
Bouncing Back... Part Two
This may turn into quite a series of stories... Everyone loves to share their success stories, but what about the failures that we all...
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Laura
- Mar 24, 2019
- 1 min
The Dressage Affair CDI***
Team LGD just returned from the Dressage Affair CDI*** show in Burbank and what a fantastic time we had! This was our show team's debut...
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Laura
- Feb 15, 2019
- 5 min
12 Ways to Make Money in the Horse Industry (Other than Riding!)
Horses are expensive, right? I have spent most of my life working to pay for my horse habit! I also feel very fortunate that my "habit"...
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Laura
- Feb 3, 2019
- 4 min
Longeing the Dressage Horse--Part Two
. I love longeing my horses... and probably not for the reasons you may think. I don't use longeing soley as a means to "work them down"...
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Laura
- Jan 19, 2019
- 2 min
Longeing the Dressage Horse--Part One
It's been a wet week this past week in Los Angeles but today the sun finally came out. While it was nice to have a few easy, rainy days...
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Laura
- Jan 6, 2019
- 2 min
How to Set Challenging yet Attainable Goals for the New Year.
t's January... a time for optimism, for looking ahead to all the excitement and promise that a new year brings. And it's time to figure...
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Laura
- Dec 24, 2018
- 3 min
Reflections on 2018
2018 is drawing to a close and what a year it has been! At the beginning of the year, I penciled out some goals or ideas of things I...
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Laura
- Nov 20, 2018
- 3 min
Evacuating your Horse from a Wild Fire
The recent Woolsey Fire in Southern California and Camp Fire in Northern California have been a startling reminder that part of horse...
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Laura
- Nov 6, 2018
- 4 min
How to Bounce Back When Something Goes Wrong at a Horse Show
Last week Team LGD had a great time at the Mission Pacific Dressage show. Everyone had solid rides, and most importantly, we had fun...
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Laura
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min
October Dressage Show at Mission Pacific Equestrian Centre
Six dressage show rides and two concerts later (plus normal weekend lessons squeezed in there... thank you to my students not showing for...
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Laura
- Oct 20, 2018
- 7 min
Saddle Shopping 101 - How to Find a Quality Used Dressage Saddle
Several LGD team members are in the process of searching for a new dressage saddle and I just recently purchased a beautiful "new to me"...
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