Betty Staley, a dressage rider, talks about the “Alphabet Approach”, which is basically a training method where the rider spends time breaking down exercises and teaching their horse what to do step by step.
With this exercise, you’ll learn how to transfer the action from the hind feet to the front feet. It should look like a dance with your horse. This exercise will help strengthen your horse's hind and front quarters.
Buck teaches a group of riders how to do outside turns. He tells them how to set their horses up to begin and how to finish it successfully.
These exercises are great for getting the horse and rider centered. When practiced consistently, it will keep a horse from refusing to jump and from driving the riders head into jumps.