By Wiola Grabowska I had this post in a draft form for some weeks now but wasn’t sure if to post it. It’s tricky to make oneself clear on a wide subject such as this one. However, last week’s message from the owner of the pony featured here made me think that perhaps I should…
By Wiola Grabowska This must be one of the easiest and most cost effective ways of transforming your plain jumps set into a proper colour and pattern challenge! We’ve dressed several jumps with the Jumpstack and been using the covered bales for all sorts of jumping exercises both ridden and on the ground. The covers…
There are many different reasons why leg-yielding is beneficial in any horse’s training programme and here is one of them: creating more even use of each hindleg. I like to start it in-hand because the biggest benefit is when the rider can ask for leg-yield from the saddle with minimal aids. Strong use of legs…
By Wiola Grabowska Rider: Sasha Eastabrook Horse: Boo Videos available on our Instagram, details at the bottom of the post Set up a jump on centre line of your arena and start with poles on the ground. I prefer to keep all jumps small, cavaletti style so if the rider makes mistakes, the exercise can…
by Mairi Mackay Teaching your horse shoulder in can have loads of benefits. All horses are ‘sided’ ( i.e. in very basic terms they have a rein that they find it easier to bend/balance on.) and shoulder in is a basic lateral exercise that can help your horse improve straightness. This has a myriad of…
Very good read – if you have a few minutes, they will be well spend… To learn more about Uta and her training, click here
Here’s one fun idea for a groundwork exercise that works very well for horses that are: easily distracted and unfocused when ridden spooky and generally either too much in front of the leg or behind the leg uninterested in the rider uninterested in communication with the rider You will need: a lot of random things…
