Sproxton Grange Equestrian

01/02/2025

An opportunity to get prepared for the upcoming and coming season. Spaces limited.

31/01/2025

🤓🐎🙌 love a triangle exercise!

Sooooo many ways to ride triangles!!!

Triangles are excellent for training accuracy, adjusting the line to exact amounts of footsteps, improving quality of connection AND pace.. especially canter!

If you are going to use triangle to train canter make sure your poles are at least 3m long but 3.6m is better. Step the distance from the base pole to the exit point to be 9ft for a standard distance.

Smaller horses can get away with a smaller distance and shorter length of pole, but you will be surprised how big a small horse’s canter stride is.

IF you are training medium level or above in dressage then your distance will be around 8ft for the canter in your normal working canter.

The closer you go to the point of the triangle in the trot, the less trot strides you will get. A great accuracy training method in the trot is to get only one foot in a point of the triangle. Have a go!!

If your horse has never trained triangles before, train them in walk first. They tend to be a bit confusing to some!

30/01/2025

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29/01/2025

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𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘅 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 - a basic myofascial release technique which can be performed anywhere on the horse’s body.

As the name suggests, this technique involves slowly circling the skin and moving it over the structures underneath. It's particularly effective in areas where there is a lot of skin movement and where the muscles underneath are aligned in multiple directions. For example, around the girth area and the thoracic sling muscles in between the front legs.

This technique is really good for performing in the areas under the saddle, girth and bridle to release and rehydrate the superficial fascia after the horse has had the pressure of tack in those areas.

Skin Circling is good for:
✅ Relaxation
✅ Mobilising the skin and superficial fascia
✅ Easing tension in superficial muscles and fascia
✅ Stimulating the circulatory system
✅ Stimulating nerve endings


𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴
1. Check your posture and lower your energy before you start.

2. Place your hands on the area you are going to massage and allow a moment of acclimatisation. One hand will be the circling hand and the other your feedback hand, so for example if you are massaging along the back, place your other hand on the withers and allow your forearm to rest against the horse too.

3. Imagine your hand is stuck to the skin and move the skin slowly over the structures underneath in a circular motion.

4. Try to encourage the skin to move as far as it will and a little further in each direction, in other words try to move the skin in as large a circle as you possibly can without letting your hand slip over the skin.

5. Move your hand onto another area of the body and repeat.

You can also do a double handed technique (as shown in the picture) where you use both hands together to create the circle.

If you'd like to learn other massage techniques that your horse will love, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 to the 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲.

Head to www.horsesinsideout.com/omc for more details

29/01/2025

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"There is no failure, only feedback"
- Robert Allen, business author.
This phrase suggests that when something doesn't go as planned, instead of viewing it as a failure, you can re-frame it as valuable feedback that can help you learn and improve in the future.

💜𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩
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28/01/2025

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❗THINK Before you speak (or type)...❗
🆃 is it True?
🅷 is it Helpful?
🅸 is it Inspiring?
🅽 is it Necessary?
🅺 is it Kind?

Words hurt.

💜𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩
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🇬🇧Live text support: 07480 488 103
🇬🇧Call the helpline: 0800 088 2073

28/01/2025

🤓🐎👍 Great exercise with just 4 poles needed 🙌

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Four poles - low intensity training session.

If you want to add canter, the distance between the vertical poles needs to be 9ft.

Walk and trot all lines first.
Train accuracy, bend and rhythm.
In the canter, execute simple changes before and after poles on changes of rein or train changes over the poles. Quality of pace is key! Ride your turns/corners actively so the horse “moves” through the turns not waits. On your approach line sit quiet.

For the green riders/horses use the exercise to train your eye - look for your departure line when you’re on your approach line. Train yourself to look forwards at the line you want to travel… not down at the line the horse’s feet are on.

Riding the corners of the L’s helps introduce horses to a shape similar to triangles before actually training triangles. Train this exercise until it flows in rhythm and you easily maintain each line. (This one was already on my insta page but a lot of new followers for the FB crew so posting it again).

27/01/2025

💙💛🤍 New SJ course up in the arena at SGE for this week and available to hire most days. DM to book 🐎🤩🙌 🤍💛💙

27/01/2025

💙💛🤍 Brilliant grid work exercises in today’s clinic with the fabulous Pauliina Swindells Eventing so wonderful to see horses and riders making great progress getting ready for the upcoming competition season 🐎🤩🙌 Polly does clinics twice a month at SGE so DM if you would like to book a place 🐴👌 🤍💛💙

27/01/2025

💙💛🤍 Fantastic to have North Ryedale Riding Club back training at SGE with poles and gridwork, especially after the last couple of sessions have been cancelled because of adverse weather. Great the sun was shining on Saturday! 🐎🤩👌🐴☀️ 🤍💛💙

27/01/2025

💙💛🤍 Saturday Horse And Rider Fitness (HARF) at SGE. These are weekly session with different exercises for you and your horse working on suppleness, relaxation and building muscle strength 🐎🤩💪👌🐴🙌 DM for details to book 🤍💛💙

25/01/2025

💙💛🤍 One tree down in the wind thankfully the fence taking the brunt of it and arena fences just to stand back up💨🙏🤞🐎 glad all horses were safe and coped well with winds up to 70 mph yesterday! Big thanks to all SGE staff for working extra hard and overtime to provide extra care to keep the horses safe 🤩🙌🙏🐎🐎🐎 🤍💛💙

25/01/2025

💙💛🤍 Tree falling onto stables at SGE 🐎🙈🌲 thankfully seems to have damaged fence behind rather than stables and luckily they were empty at the time 🐎🙌🙏🤞💨🌲 🤍💛💙

25/01/2025

💙💛🤍 Survived the 70 mph winds at SGE yesterday with one tree down but thankfully minimal damage to fence and stables appear to have got away unscathed! Grateful they were empty when the tree fell and the horses were in the safety of the turnout pens 🐎🙏🤞 🤍💛💙