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“I hear her in my mind when I ride!” A Tribute to Jane Savoie from Lynn Palm

One of our favorite things at TSB is when our amazing and inspiring authors connect. What better than to see the people we know, admire, learn from, and care about find common ground in their love for the horse? That’s what happened with our friend and author, Jane Savoie, who we lost to cancer in…

March 7, 2021
Collection: Feel What Your Horse Feels

Renowned educator, clinician, and Western Dressage World Champion Lynn Palm says that one of the quickest ways to understand true collection is to try it yourself. Here’s an easy exercise from her book THE RIDER’S GUIDE TO REAL COLLECTION to help you feel what your horse feels when you ask him to collect. TRY THIS…

January 14, 2019
The Runaround: An Exercise for Achieving Collection (Really!)

Sandy Collier has enjoyed great success in her career as an NRCHA, NRHA, and AQHA champion horse trainer. Named one of the “Top 50 Riders of All Time in All Disciplines” by Horse & Rider Magazine, she was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in 2011, and the NRCHA’s Hall of Fame in 2012. Collier…

July 11, 2017
This Is What Top Equestrians Are Thankful For

In almost every book we publish, we invite our authors to include a page of acknowledgments; this is their chance to thank those who may have had a hand in their careers or the making of their books. While it isn’t every day that we look back through to see who they’ve thanked over the…

November 23, 2016
24 Hours in the Life of WonderHorseWoman Lynn Palm

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a top rider, trainer, judge, or clinician? Trafalgar Square Books (www.horseandriderbooks.com) is tracking down its top authors and asking them to pull back the curtains and let us take a quick peek into their lives. In our fifth installment in TSB’s “Horseworld by the Hour” blog series, we…

August 19, 2014
A Simple Transition Exercise for Better Western Dressage

The Western Dressage Association® of America (WDAA) lists collection as the sixth step in its Guidelines for Training Progression: Readiness, Balance, Rhythm, Impulsion, Suppleness, Collection, and ultimately, Lightness. There are many different ideas of what “collection” in the horse is—and what it isn’t. The WDAA defines it as follows in its Western Dressage Glossary:…

May 20, 2014
Western Dressage Is Now a Recognized USEF Sport—Get the Official, Fully Illustrated WDAA Tests at the TSB Online Bookstore!

It has been exciting to watch the evolution of the new sport of Western dressage and rewarding for so many to see it finally be recognized at national levels. And now, at the mid-year meeting of the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF), the Board of Directors approved a rule change proposal, effective December 1, 2013,…

July 31, 2013
Is It a Kindle/iPad Kinda Christmas? Get These Bestselling TSB Horse Books in Kindle/ePub Format!

Is someone you know getting a Kindle or tablet for Christmas? Treat your horsey-and-tech-savvy friends right with a few of TSB’s bestselling books in digital format! The following titles are available in Kindle and ePub (ebooks.com)! And don’t forget: ALL these titles and MORE are available in print format from the TSB online bookstore. If…

December 12, 2012
Horse-Lover’s Gift Idea: A Great Western Dressage Primer from Western Dressage Association Advisory Director Lynn Palm

Since the early 1990s, Lynn Palm has been a major proponent for showing the American Quarter Horse in the dressage discipline. After nearly 20 years, on January 1, 2010, the AQHA agreed to recognize dressage as a event in which points could be earned. That same year, nationally known trainers Eitan Beth-Halachmy and Jack Brainard…

December 5, 2012
Happy Shopping! Our Horse Books and DVDs Are ON SALE!

Whatever you want to call it—Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, CyberMonday—there’s no avoiding the fact the holiday shopping season kicks off this weekend. We hope you can all enjoy it just a little bit, whether you are standing in lines, sitting at your computer, or hitting “Order Now” on your phone from the back of…

November 23, 2012