NL Equestrian - Coaching & Horsemanship

06/11/2025

05/11/2025

Coaching, schooling, groundwork and behavioural consulting covering Alford, Skegness, Boston, Sleaford, Louth, Mablethorpe, Horncastle, Grimsby and surrounding areas.

✅ Schooling, groundwork and coaching 45 mins, 1 or 2 hourly sessions.

✅ Options to hunt or compete your horse plus accompany you to shows with full support. Ideal for those wanting to expose themselves and their horses to new experiences and surtoundings.

✅ Behavioural consulting: 2 hourly session including assessment and training. Includes a behavioural modification action plan and follow up.

Behavioural sessions may address issues such as napping, rearing, mounting block issues, catching, loading, bargy behaviour or anything else you need help with.

Availability for November:
🐴 Wed 12th 1pm, 5.30pm
🐴 Fri 14th 2.30pm
🐴 Tues 18th 9am
🐴 Wed 18th 8am onwards
🐴 Fri 20th 10am, 11am
🐴 Sat 21st 10.30am

35 years experience, Cert.Ed FE Teaching, HNC Animal Behaviour & Welfare (Dist.), BHS Stg2, Emergency First Aider L3, Fully Insured.

01/11/2025

Wonderful news 🙌 no nosebands and discrete voice commands allowed!

Vocal aids and no nosebands: British Riding Clubs introduce new rules to promote horse welfare.

Riders are now permitted to use their voices during tests, provided they are discreet do not distract others, and nosebands are no longer compulsory for competitors.

Many have praised the change and really welcomed it. Read the full story via the link in comments.

01/11/2025

Finally now sat on a horse after several weeks out of action with a broken rib. First sit riding a scruffy but saint of a pony Sam, including canter and a cross pole. I couldn’t feel it until I tried to get off 🤦‍♀️ All is ok for riding and schooling again for clients. However, I may need a little longer for certain groundwork sessions such as trailer loading but I’m looking good to go now finally!

03/09/2025

Coaching, schooling and behavioural consulting covering Alford, Skegness, Boston, Sleaford, Louth, Mablethorpe, Horncastle, Grimsby and surrounding areas.

✅ Schooling and coaching 45 mins, 1 or 2 hourly sessions
✅ Behavioural consulting: 2 hourly session including assessment and training. Includes a behavioural modification action plan and follow up.

Sessions may address issues such as napping, rearing, mounting block issues, catching, loading, bargy behaviour or anything else you need help with.

Availability for November:
🐴 Wed 12th 1pm, 5.30pm
🐴 Fri 14th 2.30pm
🐴 Tues 18th 9am
🐴 Wed 18th 8am onwards
🐴 Fri 20th 10am, 11am
🐴 Sat 21st 10.30am

35 years experience, Cert.Ed FE Teaching, HNC Animal Behaviour & Welfare, BHS Stg2, Emergency First Aider L3, Fully Insured.

28/08/2025

Bubbalicious trying out her new footwear! I am avoiding putting shoes on her lovely feet at all cost…nails cause cracks and lost shoes in my experience owning Thoroughbreds. She has sensitive soles however, so Flex Hoof boots it is! She’ll have black gaiters instead of pink when she goes out in public 🤣

31/07/2025

To anyone thinking about ditching the noseband for improved equine welfare, read this peer reviewed article which shows that a tighter noseband reduces stride length!

The FEI have a noseband gauge ruling this year to stop over tightening but wouldn’t it be nice if we could compete in all disciplines without them?

https://askanimalweb.com/new-study-links-tight-nosebands-to-reduced-stride-length-and-potential-facial-damage-in-horses-3/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL3_lFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmyWfuHw7gbJ5yp0b3KXHjdbR9zJl1uXvoXTUtHURO7tJ4-MPEeYDW_I4svT_aem_rYmaTwz32O0NvrkqHiGY9g

A new scientific study co-authored by Animalweb’s own Dr David Marlin in conjuction with Anglia Ruskin University students Emily Hopkins and Stacie Whitrod and ARU Writtle Associate Professor of Animal Biomechanics and Sports Medicine and School Research Lead Dr Roberta Blake, has found that tight...

30/07/2025

Drama on social media is the flavour of the month and it’s actually the flavour of every month. Bashing R+ training and trainers is particularly popular.

But I wanted to point something out in case you didn’t realise. There’s a lot of pages out there who monetise their content and the best way to get likes, comments and shares, is through drama and outrage.

So the next time you like or put an angry face or comment or share a post, think about that for a moment and think about whether they are helping in someway, or educating in someway, or just feeding off the frenzy?

Just like in my positive reinforcement training, I teach my horse what to do, rather than focus on what they may be doing that I don’t like. I think this is an important lesson we can take away in life in general.

Perhaps share the positives and what is possible and what people could be doing instead, rather than focusing on the negatives and getting outraged and angry.

Certainly, getting angry has its place to motivate behaviour change, but if it’s going nowhere and someone is simply making money out of it, it’s not productive anger.

I have a lot of hope for the future and I love to share all the happiness and enjoyment and pleasure that not only I get, but my equines get from training the way I do.

Can we put out more positives than negatives, in the hopes of promoting a better way? 🧡

30/07/2025

It’s easy to go back to hitting horses.
Not because it’s right, but because it’s ingrained.
It’s easy to say “don’t do that” instead of “try this instead.”
It’s easy to be reactive.
Especially after years of responding that way.

It’s easy to change what you believe and still find yourself slipping back into the habits of old mistakes.
No one talks about the guilt that follows. The weight of knowing better yet feeling yourself repeat what you swore you’d leave behind.

But the work is in the pause. In managing your frustration.
In taking that moment to recognize the patterns and how deep the indoctrination can run.

Just pause. Take a breath. Acknowledge the emotion you’re feeling in that moment and choose a better direction.