This sound is how I feel every time I sit on her🥰.
Grace’s🦋 canter is just going from strength to strength at the moment, it’s definitely my favourite gait of hers to ride now🫢!
I’m really looking forward to Swan River this weekend, hopefully we can continue our confidence building trajectory we’ve been on this season🙏🏼.
Life has been absolutely insane lately, I can’t share any details as of yet, so for now I’m excited to being able to focus wholeheartedly on Grace🦋 for the show✨.
As always thankyou to Jo for giving me the ride on this little mare🦄.
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🥈&🥉 for Mia🌻 at Brookleigh
So proud of Brookevalley Gwyrth Evriadd for placing in both her classes at Brookleigh on Saturday, being the only pony against some lovely horses🙌🏻🤩. This young mare is showing so much potential in the dressage ring😍.
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Her greenness and tension showed through in her trot work, but I was very pleased to not have a single spook in the ring or the warm up👏🏼. The green bean is becoming less green!
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The 1.2 was lovely and consistent with 10 scores of 6.5 and nothing below a 6 for 64.5%💕.
Rider accuracy mistakes in the 1.3 resulted in 2 scores of 5, which really let the scores down to end up on 61.5%. We did however achieve 7s for 5 movements!
Turns out that learning a test you’ve never ridden, the day of, is not a good idea. Who would have thought🤦🏼♀️.
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Thankyou to her owner Mike Jacobson for the ride and Brookleigh for running such a lovely event as always!
Looking forward to the last one of the series🥳.
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Brookleigh Dressage Club HP Championship Series 1 with Mia🌻
First competition with Mia🌻 was a huge success!
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Brookevalley Gwyrth Evriadd placed 2nd in both the Participant Prelim 1.1 and Participant 1.2 with 64% and 64.28% respectively, up against some really lovely horse and rider combinations.
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Her owner and I are very happy with how she handled the competitive environment and how rideable she was in both tests, with just one green moment in the 1.2.
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Thankyou Brookleigh Dressage Club for putting on a great event, we can’t wait for the next in the series!
Mia is owned by Mike Jacobson.
📷cover by Reagan’s Equine Photography
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Brookleigh Dressage Club HP Championship Series 1
Grace🦋 and I completed our first official elementary test at the Brookleigh Dressage Club HP Championship Series 1 event on Saturday🥳.
In November we rode our first 3.1 at the K&K Equine Open Tee Dressage Day, my goal for this show was to improve on that score.
Grace🦋 was holding onto tension which resulted in some expensive mistakes, however improvements in other areas resulted in a better score than our first attempt, and some promising comments🤩.
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As the pieces are feeling put together in training, I’m looking forward to getting out more and training in different venues to achieve that vital relaxation in the show ring again.
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Thankyou to Brookleigh Dressage Club for putting on such a great event, can’t wait for the next in the series🥳.
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Thankyou to her owner, Jo Green, for trusting me with Grace’s training.
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I’m excited to announce that BROOKEVALLEY GWYRTH EVRIADD, is joining the Starner Equestrian team for the season✨.
Affectionately known as “Mia”, she is a 5yo Welsh D, by Anakie I’m So Ffansi, out of Teifi Valley Derwna Dawnsio.
Thankyou to her owner Mike Jacobson for this opportunity.
Pablo🌞 week 7
Week 7 was the most exciting week in Pablo’s🌞 training. He had his first ride🥳.
I am absolutely stoked with how he is coming along, he really is taking everything in his stride now🙌🏻👏🏼.
Pablo is owned by Mahdi Vallance.
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Pablo🌞 week 6
Week 6 was an exciting one for Pablo’s🌞 training!
We had our first layover🥳.
So pleased with how much his trust and confidence has grown lately.
Pablo is owned by Mahdi Vallance
Pablo🌞 week 5
Pablo🌞 week 5
Super happy with how Pablo is ticking along in his training, taking things at his pace and his pace only.
I’m aiming to nurture confident and trusting horses, rather than obedient ones.
Pablo is owned by Mahdi Vallance
Pablo🌞 week 4
Very delayed week 4 post for Pablo🌞.
Having to evacuate the horses due to a fire definitely threw a spanner into the works, very grateful that no homes were lost in the fire and we could go back to normal fairly quickly.
Pablo is owned by Mahdi Vallance.
Pablo🌞 Wk.3
Pablo🌞 has done so well in his third week of training🙌🏻.
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I am so glad that I took the time to get him comfortable with his surroundings, because he has graduated to be doing his sessions in the arena🎊! If you go back to his last video, you’ll see that it took him some time to settle outside of his paddock😥.
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His general demeanour has become so much more relaxed and I am loving seeing his sweet, cuddly personality blossom🥰!
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In his training we are moving onto some more exciting steps, while always prioritising the relaxation🍃. Can’t wait to continue his training, he is so rewarding!
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Pablo is owned by Mahdi Vallance
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Pablo🌞 has been a star🤩 for his first few weeks here at SES.
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This video covers a snapshot of his first week with me and part of what we’ve been working on. Included are some unpolished clips to show his progress.
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Having a horse in a calm mindset🧘🏼♀️ is crucial to any training program, so that was my priority for week one as Pablo is an anxious type👻.
As I’ve mentioned before, they cannot learn if they are stressed! I want to nurture a confident horse, and that starts here👇🏼.
Making sure that this early groundwork is solid is crucial for building his confidence.
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Just because he is a standardbred that has raced in the past, doesn’t mean he is confident in all stages of his training, I need to be sure that he’s not shutting down to cope with the stress so we are going over everything again to make sure🧠.
This just keeps us both safe and builds trust between us moving forward🥰.
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Being very aware of his threshold and responding to the small signals has really helped him come out of his shell, he used to be a horse that didn’t respond to scratches!
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This coming week is week 3 with Pablo and he is underway in his prep to be ridden🤩.
Always such a privilege to work with a sensitive, clever horse, they are incredibly rewarding when you are resilient with your patience💕.
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Pablo is owned by Mahdi Vallance.
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Pablo🌞 is demonstrating a lovely big release here with lots of yawns, licking and chewing, and showing a much more relaxed facial expression by the end😌!
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Have you ever wondered why your horse stops responding to learned cues when they become stressed? One reason is: when there is too much stress, the ability to retrieve memories (or recall learned skills) is significantly impaired😰. Simply put, if your horse is too stressed they cannot be as responsive and willing as normal.
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Attempting to learn something new while stressed will have a similar result, the stress prevents the new information from going into the memory in an effort to protect the brain from the traumatic event🧠. So trying to teach a horse something while they are stressed is completely ineffective, possibly causing more harm than good.
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Getting your horse to release like this gets their stress and anxiety levels back down to a more neutral state, where they are actually able to learn and problem solve. Side effects of this are your horse learning that you are a safe space to be and will become more trusting.
Being able to cue your horse to focus and then relax is an extremely useful tool to any horse owner and has endless implications.
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Pablo is owned by Mahdi Vallance.
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When do you see your horse yawn? 🥱
Save this reading later🤓
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