Dressage
The following books are helpful in preparation for ARICP's Dressage Tests.
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101 Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider
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By Jec Aristotle Ballou
Schooling your horse in standard dressage techniques creates a firm foundation for all preformance riding.  Each of this book's 101 exercises features an arena diagram or drawing illustrating the elements of the routine.

Cross-Train Your Horse: Simple Dressage for Every Horse, Every Sport

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by Jane Savoie

Wouldn't you love someone to hand you the key to a deeper level of communication and harmony with your horse? Jane Savoie gives you that edge - basic dressage - in "Cross-Train Your Horse". In her lighthearted style, Jane takes the mystery out of training and shows how dressage techniques can be used to improve every horse's athleticism, performance, and well-being, no matter what the chosen rider's sport - including all the English riding disciplines and every type of Western riding.

Dressage From A to X
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By Barbara Burkhardt
Dressage from A toX will prepare both the novice and the seasoned competitor for successful navigation of all the little, and not so little, elements of training and showing a dressage horse.

Dressage with Kyra

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By Kyra Kyrklund & Lemkow

(Helpful preparation for ARICP's Dressage Tests.)

Olympian Kyra Kyrklund clearly explains the logical, systematic training methods that have brought her success, showing how they can be applied to all horses--young or old, green or experienced.

Dressage: Guidebook for the Road to Success
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By Alfred Knopfhart

(Helpful preparation for ARICP's Dressage Tests.)

This book gives a very well organized presentation of how to progressively train a dressage horse. If you have ever wondered how a shoulder-in is different from a haunches-in and why we teach the shoulder-in first, this is your book.

More Cross-Training: Build a Better Performance Horse with Dressage

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by Jane Savoie
This is the perfect companion to the first Cross-Training book. It's for the riders who want to better and further their dressage training. It picks up where the first book left off, and like book 1, it is clear, innovative, explanative and illustrates the basic principles of more advanced dressage. It leaves the reader/rider with a better understanding of riding mechanics and harmony with the horse. It gets a little bit more in depth and into more advanced, challenging dressage exercises. Suited for any horse and rider in any sport, which makes it so different than any other dressage book out there.