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Murdoch Minute No. 105: Glide Your Shoulders Over Your Ribs

by Wendy Murdoch

Use this Murdoch Minute to improve your hands and rein contact. When you can make continuous circles with your hand on your back at all gaits, your shoulders will be free to follow your horses mouth on the flat and over fences. Noisy Hands? Do your shoulders get tense when you ride? Have trouble keeping […]

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Murdoch Minute No. 100: Level Your Chin

by Wendy Murdoch

Do you tuck your chin when you ride? Feel tension in your throat and neck? Have difficulty breathing when you ride? Try to pull your chin back to your collar to sit up straight? Forcing your head position will adversely affect your rein contact and overall position. Yes, it is important to balance your head […]

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Murdoch Minute No. 103: Press back for Outside Leg

by Wendy Murdoch

Use this Murdoch Minute to open your hip for a correct outside leg position. When the thigh is in neutral your heel will go back and down toward your horse’s hind foot.

Filed Under: Murdoch Minutes

SURE FOOT sessions work magic for “unsound” dressage-turned-trail mount

by Wendy Murdoch

“The SURE FOOT® Equine Stability program has made an amazing change in our 17 hand DWB mare, Tamara.  We were given her two years ago to be my son’s trail horse. She was deemed too unsound to be a dressage horse anymore.  She was supposed to be kept on joint supplements and pain killers all the time […]

Filed Under: Tails from the Trail

Murdoch Minute No. 80: Balance Your Head

by Wendy Murdoch

Use this Murdoch Minute to lengthen your neck and balance your head. When you ride remember the feeling of being long through your neck and balancing with something on your head and always remember to enjoy the ride!

Filed Under: Murdoch Minutes

Stacy Charland talks about riding with Wendy Murdoch

by Wendy Murdoch

Stacy Charland has been a student of Wendy’s for over 2 years. She takes lessons on a once/month basis and has attended one clinic in the October 2012. Stacy and her horse Roy have made great improvement in that time. In this short interview Stacy talks about why she rides with Wendy and what she […]

Filed Under: Interviews

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