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have a connected seat that isn’t necessarily full or heavy. Control of balance: that’s really what we’re doing on a horse.


If you move past the basic ABCs of riding, which are your aids and your ability to communicate with your horse through your aids, what you’re doing by using all of that is you’re manipulat- ing or managing the balance of the horse, or the intention of the balance of the horse. While one is managing this, the seat is one of the aids that you use to communicate. I think some of the best riders in the world are able to communicate through their balance and their seat, which alleviates some of the need for a strong hand. You can be seated and actually be behind the motion of


the horse, in which every movement that the horse takes, he is having to push you along. You can also be in the saddle in a full position and move efficiently through the rhythm of the horse. When you get to a very sophisticated level, which is what


I am talking about, those subtle differences matter. And of course, as always, it depends on your partner underneath you and his needs. If you’re riding to that big open water and your horse is


unsure, or the conditions are a bit against you, you are going to come in with all the available tools and intention forward, which will be a deep seat, almost a driving seat. However, when things are moving along in an overall good nature, a good balance, a good ride, you think, ‘What is this moment asking of me?’ It’s asking me to stay light and allow my horse to move efficiently.


Mandy Porter on Milano in March at HITS Coachella Desert Circuit in Ther- mal, where the pair won the 2017 AIG $1,000,000 Grand Prix.


MANDY PORTER From Encinitas, California, Mandy won the 2017 AIG $1,000,000 Grand Prix on Milano (Orlando x Pomme Royal) a 2005 Swed- ish gelding. She and her other top horse, Coral Reef Follow Me II (For Pleasure


x Sandro), together won four Grands Prix at the 2017 HITS Coachella Desert Circuit.


you say full seat, I like to sink in. I like to ride through the corners a little bit. I tend to be a little more in the saddle on course than some other people. It helps me to feel a better connection, and to have my leg on so the horse is more connected to the bridle, ridden up to the bridle from my hand. I feel I have a better sense of my rhythm when I’m in that position. Some horses need one more than the other, depending


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on how they go and what they’re comfortable with. I’d say on an average, I’d like to think I would agree with the 80/20.


’m going to say that might depend on horse and rider— some riders might see it a little differently. For me, when


Rich Fellers on the stallion Flex- ible in the AIG $1M Grand Prix March 2015 at HITS in Thermal, California.


It all depends on where


you are. I will say I’ll jump a jump and I try to be sinking in maybe a fuller seat before the jump. In landing, it depends on what you need to do on the landing, but maybe I try to stay lighter for a few strides thinking if I have to be quick for a time allowed. However, if you have a situa- tion where a line is really short, then you can’t do that. Riders’ styles are all so different. At the upper level, you


“I’d like to think I would agree with the 80/20.”


try to train the horse to your style where they know you and you know them. That will probably dictate how much of each seat. If you’re in an indoor arena, chances are you’ll be in a full


seat more and more. If you’re on a big field, you’ve got a lot of galloping room and a lot of space between jumps, then maybe it’s not as quick that you’re going to sink in and ride full seat. I always have to think about time, because I’ve been


known to have a time fault here or there. I hate having time faults. Someone once told me to be more effective on the landing stride, and I think that has been something that has helped me a lot. About being more effective in general, whatever you


have to do, do it on the landing stride or the first couple steps right after landing. If you have to land and go forward because the time allowed is tight, then you stay lighter and ride forward for a couple more steps until you can sink into the tack. Times allowed are generally fairly snug nowadays.


RICH FELLERS Rich and his legendary partner Flexible (Cruis- ing x Safari) won the 2012 World Cup Finals, when the Irish stallion was 16. They were also eighth at the 2012 Olympic Games. From Oregon City, Oregon, Rich also competes a string of horses including the Irish mare Lux Lady (Lux x Master Imp).


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think it is very horse- specific and also course- specific. The best riders


are comfortable either sitting or light out of the saddle. I think the more blood the horse has and the more


energetic the horse is, the lighter the rider needs to stay. It’s so, so horse-specific. If you have a horse that’s very brave, very aggressive, you don’t need to sit much to


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Charlene Strickland


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