Help your beginner students prepare for our second level of mounted riding lessons using this Yellow Level Horsemanship study guide for English riders.
REVISED IN 2026!
This “textbook” for Yellow Level explains important walk-trot concepts and emphasizes the importance of a strong foundation before cantering and jumping.
Students practice emergency skills; work towards balanced walk-trot transitions and a steady trot through ring figures; learn posting diagonals and sitting trot; put flatwork skills to use in the Intro A dressage test; strengthen their jumping position over ground poles in a grid and over a simple course.
While the guide is written for English riding disciplines, much of the key information here is true for all walk-trot riding, and could be adapted for use with our Western curriculum.
ABOUT OUR STUDY GUIDES
We use the study guides, along with our lesson plans and other educational resources, to provide detailed instructional content for mounted classes or clinics — and for our students to study at home in preparation for lessons.
We’ve also found study guides to be an invaluable asset when coordinating instruction between multiple instructors or training assistants and barn helpers.
