By Wiola Grabowska This blog series follows a story of two freelancers – a livery manager/groom/rider and a riding instructor with a coaching programme who thought it might be a good idea to join forces and set up a company with a vision beyond what’s achievable by oneself. The trick is – neither of them…
Earlier this year I decided to open several more places on the Academy programmes and it’s time to invite further 3 riders to join us! Place one – with Oscar. Meet Oscar, 16.1hh, 6 year old Irish Sports Horse gelding owned by Paige Burford. Oscar is a young horse with a history of a few…
By Wiola Grabowska If you don’t know Leo’s story please see HERE and HERE as some of the below will make more sense if you know why I have Leo… Even though Leo arrived to live with me in most dreadful circumstances, I feel privileged to have him. He became a big part of my life…
After two years with the fabulous loan horse, Gilly, Mairi is looking for her very own beast to finally truly call her own, to further improve her riding confidence and feel on. She’d like to compete a bit more and work out if she wants to get more serious about that. Mairi’s main points: A…
By Wiola Grabowska It seems to me that the most difficult clinics, demos or forums to find are those that explore training methods which can produce a sports horse without traditional systems of dominance, submission and fear training. It is one thing to train a well mannered happy hacker/typical pleasure horse with non-bullying methods, another…
Huge congratulations to the lovely, if a little mad, event riders on Aspire’s Performance Programme – Emma Brinkworth with her own Merehead and Lou Crow with Laura Williams’ Robyn. If you follow our Instagram and training updates you will know both Robyn and Merehead are ex-racehorses with sometimes too much blood buzzing in their heads…
By Wiola Grabowska A solid, correct biomechanics of a rising trot is probably the simplest way of encouraging the horse’s seeking reflexes and as a result, the elusive roudness over the back. For all grassroots riders I teach, there is no escape from this and although I don’t tend to drill mechanically into a “perfect…
