Mr. Oliveira's understanding of horses gave him the acute ability to judge the psychological moment in the horse and take advantage of it - what some people call timing, but in good riders it is basically a natural happening. In great riders this ... more

The methods, certainly they are already there because the methods he used are already being taught. The principles and the end result, I doubt seriously, he never really thought so. I had the pretension as a child in thinking so. But, I think they ... more