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on or just below the horse’s withers. Your lower leg is forward while you learn to open and close the angle of your hip and back to use your weight and leverage instead or your arms. Then it’s not a ‘fight.’
“It’s pretty hard to teach a rider to do all this, when it’s so foreign to other sports, but it’s easier when I can ride along with young riders and tell them, ‘Mimic me. Do it like this.’ Then they can look over and see my lower leg forward, my hip angle open, not fighting my horse, and they see it’s not so hard.”
Yovanovich has several notable “students” in just the past two years on Virginia’s circuit: 2004 champion ladies’ timber and foxhunters’ series rider Molly White had never 'ridden • races before coming to Yovanovich the previous fall. And in 2003 Tiffany Mueller also learned from Yovanovich, taking his riding lessons from start to finish in her ladies’ and novice rider championships.
Ways to play
A product of the British Racing School in Newmarket, England, Leigh Hogben took a different route to her success.
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