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To develop a harmonious partnership with your horse, whether you have ambitions in the competition arena or not, you need to develop a two-way communication system that is clear to both of you. In The Building Blocks of Training, Debby Lush, international dressage rider and senior instructor at the Training the Teachers of Tomorrow Trust, offers practical assistance in developing such a system, a progressive and logical one that is firmly rooted in classical training. The ultimate aim is to enhance the horse's mental and physical capabilities and so allow him to move easily and happily forward from the earliest simple steps to the more complicated efforts required further up the competition ladder. With step-by-step guides to every aspect of schooling from lungeing to lengthening (touching on the foundations to move on to the more advanced movements), and with troubleshooting sections to identify why things are going wrong and how to solve them, this book will be invaluable to countless horse and rider partnerships.

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'An immensely helpful book offering both practical solutions to problems occurring in dressage and a good understanding of the training principles of the classical tradition. This is an essential reference book to which every rider can return again and again.' -- Charles de Kunffy, author of Dressage Principles Illuminated

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Debby Lush has been a student of the former First Chief Rider of the Spanish Riding school of Vienna, Herr Arthur Kottas-Heldenberg, and of Charles de Kunffy, well known clinician and author of many books. More recently, she has learnt from Stephen Clarke, Olympic Judge at Athens 2004. She has trained four horses to Advanced Dressage level herself, three of them from scratch, and works as an equestrian consultant, riding and training professionally. She is a List 2 British Dressage judge, judging all levels up to and including Advanced, a registered British Dressage trainer, a BHS instructor and senior instructor at the Training the Teachers of Tomorrow Trust and contributes regularly to Horse magazine.

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