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I am a classically trained freelance BHS Stage 3 in Complete Horsemanship Accredited Professional Coach with over twenty years experience in the industry now based near Ingleton I am friendly, empathetic & patient, working at each individual’s pace while developing your skills & partnership with your horse.

•I teach both adults and children

•I can deliverer the BHS Challenge Awards

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lise in nervous riders, beginners to intermediate levels and riders who need extra support.

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I available to work in North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and happy to travel around Uk.

A very good article written in 2019 but very relevant. 😃
20/04/2024

A very good article written in 2019 but very relevant. 😃

Klaus Balkenhol talking about problems in dressage judging:
'It is a worry, I see some horses that are really nice and relaxed, but they don't get the good score, and other horses are not always regular, especially in the passage, but still they score too much. The problem a lot of the time is the judges, and the judges' schooling is not good enough. We need one judge who can say 'this is correct', all the people coming to him asking what is the correct way - but now we have many many judges, and no leader."
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2022/06/klaus-balkenhol-which-way-for-dressage/

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28/01/2024

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Steffen Peters:
"To be true dressage, we go back to self carriage… Show the lightness, expression and beautiful self-carriage that is the essence of the sport. The way she carries herself… Don’t lean back, give her back a place to go, don’t contain her with your seat.”
Read more: https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2023/11/steffen-peters-at-mary-hannas/

So good to do. 😃
19/12/2023

So good to do. 😃

🎄Day 7 of my 12 days of Christmas 🎄

Don’t under estimate a good walk.

Walk and walk poles. Walk is a pace that generally gets forgotten about or is just there to loosen up, cool down or a time to chat to your friends or trainer.

Walk is so much more than that.

Walk is the pace that has no moment of suspension or flow of impulsion. Everything in walk had to be generated from muscle and joint action. So the horse really has to use themselves, use their body to create the movement and flexion.

Then add in poles and they have to use themselves even more.

Polework can be added in little and often to your work or as a full session. It can be in hand, on the lunge or ridden.

The horse should be allowed to look 👀 to stretch down to see the poles to help them engage their brain and body, this will also stretch through their back muscles and utilise their core.

Walk poles can be set at various distances or curves in order to be able vary the length of stride asked for ie collected, medium or extended. Play with some walk poles and see the difference regular use can make 🥰♥️🏇

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12/11/2023

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Uta Gräf of Germany that this exercise is an important part of training not just for young horses or dressage horses, but for all horses.

One of my favourite trainers. ☺️
10/11/2023

One of my favourite trainers. ☺️

Christopher Bartle, genius horseman and trainer. He tells us:
‘The freedom and regularity of the paces’ and ‘the acceptance of the bridle’ should be the end result of the basic work. Collection leads to ‘the harmony, lightness and ease of the movements’ and ‘the lightness of the forehand and the engagement of the hindquarters originating in a lively impulsion’. All this in turn leads to the enhancement of the paces through greater cadence."
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2023/11/introducing-collection-with-christopher-bartle-part-one/

Could not agree more.  Having a partnership is a wonderful feeling.  😍
08/11/2023

Could not agree more. Having a partnership is a wonderful feeling. 😍

Love this
16/10/2023

Love this

Carl Hester wisdom:
“If you can create what we try to create, without heavy hands, without hanging onto the rein, if you can do it with self-carriage, then it looks beautiful. It’s this word, expression, which is a dangerous word because once you put expression into it, like heightened suspension and things like that, then if you have got the wrong rider, or a rider who doesn’t ride with an independent seat, then they use their hands and that’s when you get that horrible looking, jerky dressage. It is something we really work on, to be able to create it, without going over-board.”

Couldn’t agree more. ☺️
11/10/2023

Couldn’t agree more. ☺️

05/10/2023

We are excited to announce that three rare full livery spaces have opened up at Craven College on our brand new equine yard.

£75 p/w during term time. £100 p/w during academic holidays

What's included within full livery:
🐴Spacious stable (fully rubber-matted, automatic drinkers)
🐴Hay or haylage included
🐴Use of our spacious indoor & outdoor Arenas (allotted times)
🐴Summer turnout
🐴Winter turnout in sand pens
🐴Secure tack room with washing machine
🐴24hr CCTV
🐴Hot wash bay & solarium (limited use)

Additional services, such as clipping and trimming, are available on site.

For more information, please fill out the below:

https://forms.office.com/e/ERD5xfY0Yr

Excellent notes☺️
01/10/2023

Excellent notes☺️

We went to the Jessica von Bredow-Werndl demo today at the lovely Addington Equestrian hosted by Equestrian Management Agency
The event was really well run (and a great Christmas present from Judy Fw )

💫Wow wow wow 💫

Jessica is a European, World and Olympic champion, so we definitely had high hopes for her demo.
It is safe to say that the day exceeded all expectations, Jessica's passion and joyful approach shone through whilst working with very talented horses and riders.

I thought I might share a few of my key notes from the day (maybe not all 10 pages on my phone...)
Some of what Jessica said really resonated with me, some points were a refreshing reminder, and others took an entirely new angle/solution to things.

✅️The Young Horse - it's all about good experience, creating the happy athlete. Although at times it's easy to hang on with a young horse, lengthen the rein, slow down, praise the horse, and breathe.

✅️ Give them no reason to run away, give them a moment, and let them look around (especially mares!). Over excitment is a good thing, it shows the horse loves to move. It's better than kicking around trying to create energy. Allow the horse to gain self-confidence, give them space in the contact, don't fear mistakes. Don't suppress them in their natural energy. Influence their character in a positive way.

✅️Warm-up time should be as short as possible and as long as necessary. If teaching a new movement, teach it at the beginning of the session after the warm-up. They are more focused at that time.

✅️ Centre line then leg yield into shoulder in. This is Jessica's exercise for all horses as a warm-up. The leg yield helps relax the horse, and it allows you to get your leg on and wrap around the horse ready for communication.

✅️Don't always praise with hand. It can be a shake in mouth. Use voice for reassuring.

✅️ Walk breaks are super important. How do they give you everything if they don't get a break regularly. It also sets you up for competition, practising switching the horse on and off.

✅️Medium canter, use travers before collecting the canter to engage the inside hind leg within the canter. This helps with showing the horse HOW you want them to collect (e.g, hind leg under).

✅️When asking a question (e.g, canter balance), don't be afraid to let the horse make mistakes, make the correction, and carry on. Having a mistake is a learning process.

✅️Suppleness is found behind saddle, not in the neck.

✅️Only go as much forward as you can do without holding them in contact as young horses. Choose a tempo that you can give the rein. Let them find their own balance.

✅️If they have a joy to move, thats what a grand Prix horse needs.

✅️Long neck- short body. Younger horses need a slightly more lifted neck.

✅️Always feel responsible for the exercise, if it doesn't work, change it.

✅️It is easier to explain horses to 'jump' more under with the hid leg by SLOWING DOWN. Explaining HOW we want them to move (e.g hind leg under). Listen to the footfall of the hooves, if it's loud in front it is often an indication of an unbalanced way of going.

✅️Less is more!

✅️Look for the big picture when training, how should it look? what is needed to make it look like this? If you want to change something you have to do it consistently.

✅️Always train long line of half passes with shoulder in. It's the in and out that teaches them how to carry themselves.

✅️Travers through corners helps activate the hind end through the corner.

✅️The neck follows the ribcage. It's all about the ribcage.

✅️Warm up/cool down is an easy jog, not an expressive jog. It's a stretching out for the back. You must still want the hindleg from the first movement (e.g when you first move off). Don't let the horse run away from the hindlegs and then try and explain later that you want them on the hindlegs!

✅️Slow down!

✅️Tell them how great they are and they will become greater!

✅️Don't train extended trot- it happens when the balance in the collection is better.

✅️With the changes, ignore the mistakes, praise the correct ones. Riding a circle with changes on makes the horse supple and even both ways within the change. On the circle, move the body away from the direction of change to open the side of the body for the change.

✅️If the horse paddles out behind in piaffe, add the sideways. Piaffe in shoulder in and then out in shoulder in. Focus just on the transitions in and out, not the piaffe itself. It's ok to be tense in piaffe, stay in it, work through it, explain it! It's not stressful, use shoulder in. Sideways (shoulder in) is a door you open (a vent) to allow the energy to positively go somewhere. This helps the horses find the right solution. Piaffe from ground first is essential. Then ask for it sitting on the horse, but still with someone on ground.

✅️Get them infront of your seat!

✅️Don't focus on the horses weaknesses, look for their strengths and use them to improve the weaknesses.

✅️Within canter Pirouette, flex to outside to connect with the inside hind leg. Don't train whole pirouettes, train them HOW to use their body.

💫These are a few of my notes💫
I think it was very clear from the way Jessica presented herself, although she is world number 1, it is all about the journey training horses to Grand Prix.
To sign off Jessica wanted to remind us that...

It's great to have goals, big goals. But more importantly is the how...how we interact daily with horses, how we act with our horses as partners, how we train.
When you win a gold.. it's a few moments of a high. What stays with you is the journey, the horse who did everything for you. We want our horses to be excited and happy to see us, happy to move. This is what it's all about. It's about the love. The joy. Is about the journey and we are privileged to spend our time with them.

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12/09/2023

BHS Scotland Autumn Camp with Sam York FBHS, Diana Zajda, Jen Morris and Richard Johnston-Smith 15-17 September 2023 Come and j...

It’s back and I can highly recommend. 😃
12/09/2023

It’s back and I can highly recommend. 😃

Feel the difference in just 25 mins a day

Yay! 👏🏻🥂
08/09/2023

Yay! 👏🏻🥂

🥇 It's gold for Great Britain! 🥇

Thanks to four incredible performance over the past two days, our Brits have stood on the top of the team podium for the first time since London 2012 🥳

Paris 2024... we're coming for you!

British Dressage

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05/09/2023

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Fun fact 😃
04/09/2023

Fun fact 😃

Did you know? Mounting and dismounting from the left (near side) Is a tradition that has been around for hundreds, possibly thousands of years.
It is likely that this rule dates back to days when many who rode were likely to ride armed, often with a sword. Since most of us are right handed, it would have been easiest to mount from the left, which kept the sword or even a horse-bow or other arms from getting in the way of the rider’s mounting and dismounting. This practice has not changed!

Thoughtful ☺️
10/08/2023

Thoughtful ☺️

**THURSDAY RESEARCH MEME**

Todays research post relates to pole work exercise. Pole work exercise is useful, provides variety and can help improve coordination, proprioception, posture and strength.

In order to clear the poles, the horse has to flex the limbs, this increases musculature effort and as a result can cause fatigue. Important to prescribe pole work exercise that is specific to the individual horse, and important to observe the horse throughout, being mindful of the subtle signs of fatigue. 🤓

www.centaurbiomechanics.co.uk/blog/







I can highly recommend as I use this myself.
28/07/2023

I can highly recommend as I use this myself.

Feel the difference in just 25 mins a day

Just love this enjoy 😊
07/06/2023

Just love this enjoy 😊

This article appeared in the first edition of THM in 1984. Dietmar Specht’s advice is still relevant –
Charlotte and Valegro demonstrate.
"Start work with a free walk on a long rein. For the first movement the horse must walk energetically forward, the horse must know he is following the rider, not on his own.Walk for five minutes on straight lines and change the rein repeatedly. This first part of the first phase is not a recommendation, it is compulsory, The horse is becoming familiar with the rider’s weight. Two living beings who want to work together. The rider is becoming familiar with the motion of the horse, he is gaining the confidence of the horse – both are comfortable and relaxed."
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/07/dietmar-specht-talks-about-the-basics/

Absolutely love this ! 😃
31/05/2023

Absolutely love this ! 😃

The late Christian Thiess told us:
“I try to broaden the rider’s understanding of the classical art of riding. And the most important requirement of the classical equitation is the purity of the paces of the horse. This can only be achieved from a relaxed, straight horse working with a swinging back and accepting both reins evenly. The hindquarters must be correctly engaged and the impulsion created must flow through the horse. This means through the swinging back, body, poll, mouth and into the rider’s hands, and some of this impulsion must be returned in the same way through the supple poll, back to the hindquarters. The two are related, for if the hindquarters are working correctly they influence and supple the poll and through the suppleness of the poll it is possible to improve the engaging of the hindquarters. My opinion is that any techniques which restrict the impulsion and damage the purity of the paces are a riding crime.”
Read more about Christian Thiess, and his teachings:
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/whos-who/thiess-christian/

This weekend’s read. ☺️
12/05/2023

This weekend’s read. ☺️

THM asked the great Harry Boldt: Can a horse go too long, too low?
“The horse must be a little bit closed. Not so his head is down and his hindlegs are trailing out behind him. It is important that the neck is round, not only long, but also round. You must always form the horse’s neck. If you ride a horse always in a high position, then the neck will not be nice, it will be stiff like wood."
Ingrid Klimke demonstrates what Harry looks for:
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2021/03/tips-from-the-top-with-harry-boldt/

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I am a freelance coach with a friendly, empathetic & patient approach, working at each individual’s pace while developing your skills & partnership with your horse. I keep with the principles of classical training for every sphere of riding. I am also a British Horse Society Accredited Professional Coach.

I teach both adults and children, including nervous riders and riders who may need extra support. I also am happy to work with any age of horse and develop programmes of training.

I can deliver training on a horse simulator and can also assist with riders who wish to compete at local lriding clubs or affiliated levels. I can deliver vocational and professional equine tests and examinations such as:

• BHS Equine Excellence Pathways - Career or Challenge Awards & the Ride Safe Award.



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