EVS Equine

03/12/2024

26/11/2024

Rescheduled pole clinic after unfortunately having to cancel last weekend. Please DM to book.

21/11/2024

When the weather stops play the clippers come out

Sorry Autumns 😂🤦‍♀️

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12/11/2024

Join us at for a pole work clinic.

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19/09/2024

I offer lessons, schooling and sales livery from this lovely yard. Please message for more info

16/09/2024

17/08/2024

I feel like this is a common phrase I use whilst teaching, this post explains perfectly the impact it has not only on us but also the effect it has on the horses way of going

When someone leaves a comments or a like here, I often click on their name to see their riding images on their page. I do this to keep track of what today's typical riding looks like. I see all kinds of riding. Some images and videos show very good balanced riding. What seems to be a common riding flaw that I see recently is with head position. So many riders post pictures of their riding with their eyes looking down. This might seem a minor issue, but it is not.

When your eyes are down, your horse can feel that your balance is forward, more over the forehand. This will put your horse onto their forehand. When your eyes go down, your head that weighs 15 pounds (7 kg) goes down and forward, and usually your shoulders fall forward as well. The fact that your head is up high at the end of an effective lever that is your upper body, multiplies the forward weight that you place over your horse's shoulders.

The negative effects this has on your horse show up in several ways. It makes both upward and downward transitions more difficult for your horse. This is because Horses need to push off or reach under with their hind, and you have shifted their balance off their hind. Lead changes become more difficult for the same reason.

Worst of all for riders, looking down makes it more difficult to develop "feel". I briefly had an argumentative student who insisted on looking down. She would argue with me when I said "eyes up", saying "I like to see what my horse is doing". I'd explain that with eyes up you can feel what your horse is doing and that makes all the difference.

If you look down when riding, just stop doing that. If you have to look down, move your eyeballs, not your head. If you do this, many improvements will follow. You will sit the canter better because your head and neck position will no longer interfere with your hips swinging to the 1-2-3 beat of the canter. "Eyes up". It's simple and fixes a lot of things.

20/05/2024

So all hope may not be lost, assuming BE approve his registration it’s in at the deep end and super Dusty to the rescue. Watch this space . . . .

20/05/2024

So it would seem sadly it just wasn’t meant to be, after cautiously entering out first BE since Nev was diagnosed with kissing spine in July 2021 and then the following few years of health problem he has heartbreaking injured himself during a jump lesson on Saturday and will be unable to compete at Bishop Burton next weekend. Words cannot describe how gutted and disappointed I am but there’s always another day. Here’s to hoping it’s nothing major and we’ll be back in the eventing trail soon