Dressage Books
If you are just starting out, we recommend you start your reading adventure with the following: Licart's "Start Riding Right" and Froissard's "Horsemanship for Our Time". If you have become disillusioned with modern dressage (we like to call it "crank and spank") then you may want to read Philippe Karl's "The Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage" and "Falling for Fallicies" by Jean Claude Racinet.
Alios Podhasky “The Complete Training of Horse and Rider”/ “My Horses My Teachers” / “The Riding Teacher”
Anja Beran “Classical Schooling with the Horse in Mind”
Andre Jousseaume “Progressive Dressage”
Antonie de Pluvinel “Le Menage Royal”
Baretto de Souza “Principles of Equitation” / “Advanced Equitation”
Commandant Licart “Start Riding Right” / “Rational Equitation” / “The Perfection of Equitation”/ “Horse Riding Through Pictures” / “Equestrian Evolution through the Ages”
Elanor Russell “The Truth in the Teaching of Nuno Olivera”
Etienne Beudant “The Training of the Horse Under Saddle” / “Horse Training Outdoor and High School”
Faverot de Kerbrecht “The Methodical Training of the Saddle Horse” / “Training the Cross Country Horse”
Francois Lemaire de Ruffieu “The Handbook of Riding Essentials” / “The Handbook of Jumping Essentials”
Francois Robichon de la Guerinerie “School of Horsemanship”
General Decarpentry “Academic Equitation” / “Piaffer and Passage” / “Analysis of the Work of Sterinbrecht”
Henry L. de Bussigny “Equitation”
Hilda Nelson “Alexis Francois L’Hotte: The Quest for Lightness”/ “Francois Baucher: The Man and his Method”/ “The Ecuyere of the 19th Century in Circus”
James Fillis “Breaking and Riding”
Jean Claude Racinet “Another Horsemanship” / “Total Horsemanship” / “Racinet Explains Baucher”/ “Fallling for Fallicies”
Jean Froissard “Horsemanship for Our Time” / “Equitation” / “A Guide to Basic Dressage”
Jean Saint Fort Paillard “Understanding Equitation”
Martin Diggle “Masters of Equitation on Trot” / “Masters of Equitation on Canter” / “Masters of Equitation on Counter Canter and Changes” / “Masters of Equitation on Collecting and Lengthening”
Noel Jackson “Effective Horsemanship”
Nuno Olivera “Horse and Rider: Annotated Sketches” / “From an Old Master Trainer to Young Trainers” / “Horses and Their Riders” / “Liberetto for the Horseman” / “Reflections on Equestrian Art”
Philippe Karl “The Twisted Truths of Modern Dressage” / “Long Reining, The Saumur Method” / "The Art of Riding: Classical Dressage to High School: Odin at Saumur"
Udo Burger “The Way to Perfect Horsemanship”
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle “A General System of Horsemanship”
Xenophon “The Art of Horsemanship”