4-H Horse - English Options

Alberta 4-H Horse units are set up in a progressive learning format that enables members to acquire an understanding of horse management through the experience of owning, caring for, training, riding and maintaining records on a horse project.
English Option (must have completed Level 3 Horsemanship)
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Dressage
Welcome to the 4-H dressage project!
Congratulations on having successfully completed the mandatory Horsemanship Project Levels 1-3. You now have basics that will be important for successful completion of the Dressage Project. We hope you will have a fantastic year developing new skills and teaching your horse new things as you continue to develop your horse knowledge and experience.

What is Dressage?
Dressage is simply the French word for “training”. With the aid of this manual you will learn about the dressage competition and basic dressage training concepts. At the completion of this project you should be ready for competing at a dressage show, either in an open or “schooling” show or at one of the EC (Equine Canada) recognized dressage shows which are held throughout Alberta. Whether you choose to compete or not, you will have fun learning, your horse will become better trained, and whatever skills you develop, you can use them to continue your pursuit of horsin’ around!

Dressage (complete resource)

Dressage Part A (pages 1-28)

Basic Riding Position | Common Dressage Terminology | School Figures Dressage Part C (pages 56-77)

Bibliography and Appendix
Jumping
In these Levels you will work through the basic skills that you will need to jump. These skills are very important because good clean jumps are the product of good flatwork and the complete understanding of both horse’s and rider’s biodynamics, jump construction, the ground underfoot and riding techniques.

A lot of the basic information has already been given to you in the Horse Reference Manual and the Dressage manual, so it will not be repeated here. This project is about learning to jump.

Jumping manual full (2020K)
Jumping Part A - pages 1-4 (177K)
Jumping Part B - pages 5-10 (237K)
Jumping Part C - pages 11-15 (182K)
Jumping Part D - pages 16-19 (239K)
Jumping Part E - pages 20-22 (129K)
Jumping Part F - pages 23-29 (473K)
Jumping Part G - pages 30-38 (241K)

Other Documents in the Series

Horse Project Descriptions
4-H Horse Reference Manual
4-H Horse Record Book
4-H Horse - Leader Guide and Winter Projects
4-H Horsemanship Assessment Tools
Young Horse Industry Project Application - 4-H Yound Horse Option
Standardbred Horse Project - 4-H Young Horse Option
The Performance Standardbred Project - 4-H Young Horse Project Option
4-H Young Horse
4-H Horse - English Options - Current Document
Reining Alberta Youth Development
4-H Horse - Project Options
4-H Horse Rodeo

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This document is maintained by Corinne Skulmoski.
This information published to the web on February 11, 2005.
Last Reviewed/Revised on June 1, 2011.