101 dressage exercises for horse and rider by Jec Aristotle Ballou

Your Horse review

Your Horse rating

YH Runner up

Testers

• Your Horse writer Julie Brown who owns Boris and competes at BE Intro level.
• Allison Lowther  who owns Jester and competes at Pre-Novice level eventing.
• Your Horse writer Hannah Roche who rides Scrumpy and has competed at Prelim dressage.

Content: 4
Helpful: 4.5
Value for money: 4.5
Verdict: 4.5/5

What’s great?

A great book, full of exercises to try at home. It includes warm ups, loosening exercises, tips to improve your straightness and position, lateral work and more advanced movements. It’s easy to navigate and has a useful calendar-style hole in all the pages so you can hang it in the school to refer to while riding. It was popular with our testers.

What’s not so great?

This is more of a work book than a reading book. It also seemed strange to our testers that the lateral work section started with half-pass, which was quite difficult as a first exercise (later exercises were much easier).