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Sadie In The Saddle

Freelance Instructor and Rider from Yorkshire documenting my journey of starting an equestrian career; coaching, riding and life on the yard.
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As a freelance instructor and rider my aim is to assist riders and horse owners to improve their riding skills in dressage, show jumping and cross country. In addition I offer guidance with handling skills and strengthening the relationship between you and your horse. As a freelance rider my services include exercising your horse, schooling, hacking out and competing at dressage, show jumping, cross country and eventing. Holiday cover is also available.

11/08/2024

Two spaces left for our next pole/grid/jump day on Saturday 17th August! DM to book, or call 07563 000136 📞

02/08/2024

Maeve and Honey having a chat over some windmills 🥰

24/07/2024

My face says it all 😍

Excited for what the future holds for Honey!

22/07/2024

The jumping paddock is looking fresh for a fun week ahead 🏇

20/07/2024

Honey was obviously relaxed during this mornings agility session with Hope For Horses Behaviour and Training 🙈

She was as bold as I expected and took the environment and obstacles in her stride, and even tried to eat the tarp!

13/07/2024

Little Hunt checking my striding ahead of tomorrow's pole/jump day!

09/07/2024

DM me or contact 07563 000136 to book 📅

30/06/2024

Great having you! Good luck at Winterton 🍀

23/06/2024

Another fab week of paddock hires and yard polework sessions 🏇

Still some availability for lessons and hire this coming week!

05/06/2024

It was great to welcome Badsworth Hunt Pony Club for training tonight 🏇

Good luck at Northallerton in a few weeks 🍀

14/04/2024

Our jumping paddock and dressage on grass arena is almost ready!

02/03/2024

For loan - Tom

Tom is a 9 year old, 13.3hh gelding looking for a new best friend to have fun with. He's done a little bit of everything with his owner, who has sadly outgrown him. Tom's favourite activity is hacking, so would suit someone looking to hack and potentially do pleasure rides. He's forward going but not strong, ridden in a snaffle.

Although Tom isn't strong or silly, he's more of a second or third pony as he enjoys a good canter in the countryside. His owner often goes hacking for two/three hours at a time.

For more information, get in touch on 07563 000136

10/11/2023

And just like that, it's Friday!

A busy week finishing with a crazy Friday morning, let's hope the rain holds off so I can get the horses ridden 🤞

09/11/2023

Autumn hacks with the gorgeous Lily 🧡

07/11/2023

A busy morning on the yard, including a lovely hack around the gallops on Skye with Gemma and Vinnie 🏇

06/11/2023

My favourite thing about this time of year is the different colours in the sky each morning; you never know whether you're going to get bright orange or deep pink 💗

03/11/2023

Autumn sunrises 🍂

03/11/2023

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐀𝐑𝐃 𝐀𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐃: Sadie In The Saddle at Park House Farm Livery
𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Knottingley, West Yorkshire
𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: "A quiet, family-run yard, Park House Farm offers part, schooling and competition livery."
𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞...
https://www.liverylist.co.uk/yard/park-house-farm-livery/

01/11/2023

Lily on babysitting duties 👶🏻

With all the horses now stabled overnight, there's plenty to do! With no human childcare, Lily had to take charge yesterday while I brought the rest of the horses in!

Thankfully Aunty Chloe is coming to the rescue today 🙌

29/10/2023

Fen posing like the King he is after our second solo hack, passing flying squirrels and a lit bonfire like a pro 🤴

I'm currently on my way home from a wonderful 10 days in Paris! Ready to get back into a routine and hit the ground running tomorrow 💪

Huge thanks to Amy for covering the yard while I've been away!

13/10/2023

Just two girls having a spa day 💁🏼‍♀️

03/10/2023

For Sale on behalf of owner - Honey

2 year old Cob x Trotter
To make around 15.2hh

Honey is a quick learner who thrives from a 1 to 1 relationship, taking everything in her stride. She's good to catch, tie up, for farrier. Walks nicely in a headcollar and has also walked out in hand in a bridle. She has travelled on a trailer once and been loaded on and off several times at home.

Honey is vaccinated and wormed up to date and has seen the chiropractor just for the experience.

A lovely mover with three nice paces, Honey needs an experienced owner to bring out her potential.

£3000 ONO

31/07/2023

🌟 Training available 🌟

Whether it be a lesson for yourself or schooling/groundwork/hacking practice for your horse, get in touch and we can discuss your goals 📞

29/07/2023

Introducing Honey 🍯

Honey is a 2 year old Cob x Trotter who is with us on sales livery. She seems to have settled in well so far, not even entertaining the other horses and just filling her belly with grass!

19/07/2023

If a human athlete was performing with spit dripping down onto their chest, foaming at the mouth, there would be serious inquiry into their mental health and well-being.

“Horses have 3 pairs of salivary glands. The one that seems to come up in this conversation, particularly within the dressage world to justify the foam, is the parotid. The parotid is located just behind the poll, near the atlas (C1) and about in the middle of the neck from top to bottom. In horses that have routinely been held behind the vertical, this gland gets inflamed to the point that it can actually be seen bulging out. The parotid is unique because in addition to saliva, it also releases the protein latherin. The other salivary glands do not. Latherin is the agent that makes both sweat and saliva (when it’s present/over-present) lather up and turn into a white foam. Latherin is an indicator of extremes. Horses can/do sweat and salivate without foaming up. Foam only shows up when things are getting pushed pretty far.
There is a postural component involved with the parotid gland and I’ll mention it here, but even if you’re in the skeptical camp, this specific mechanism becomes negated by a later malfunction anyway. Over-compression of the parotid gland causes even more latherin to be released than normal. How might one over compress/stress/inflame the parotid gland you ask? Simply spend some time riding behind the vertical. That’ll do it.
Now let’s explore the mouth seal and the throat. I’ll assume that everyone has used a straw and understands the lips function in forming a mouth seal. Yes, there are some differences between horses and people and this is where one of them comes into play. Horses are obligate nose breathers. They cannot/should not breath in or out, by physiological design, through their mouths. This is because of their throat, and particularly the seal in the back of the throat formed by the soft palate and epiglottis. Whenever we have a horse behind the vertical, or if we cause a defensive tongue reaction, the base of the tongue, which is much larger than the flat part we tend to see, pushes up and back where the soft palate and epiglottis are trying to keep the airway (trachea) and the food tube (esophagus) separated.
If this seal fails (“dorsal displacement of the soft palate” if you want to do some google scholar reading), we can get stuff that shouldn’t be there in the lungs, or we get air, that shouldn’t be there, in the stomach (“I’ll take gas colic and ulcers for $800 Alex”). In other words, a horse behind the vertical, or having a defensive withdrawal of the tongue is choking themselves because of what or how you’re asking. Maybe there’s just a little choking (which is easily justifiable, right?), or maybe a lot depending on the degree of offense. No matter the degree, there is some restricting of the airway. If you’ve ever seen tongue ties used in horse racing, this is exactly why they do it. Winners have to breathe and oxygenate as much as possible. So the tongue, which they know IS going to be offended won’t actually be able to interfere with the horse’s respiration during the race and the anaerobic phase will be pushed off a few strides more…
So, any time we see white foam in or around the horse’s mouth, we know that in the throat and neck area the parotid gland has been over-squeezed, or the seal made by the soft palate and epiglottis has been broken and the horse is exhaling into the mouth. There is another simple way too. The rider is breaking the seal in the corner of the mouth excessively and repetitiously introducing air into the mouth that way. All 3 of these, are directly the fault of the rider. One of them can still be a problem bitless.
So, for white foam, you either have caused the tongue to be defensive and pushing on the soft palate, have the horse behind the vertical (which is a problem for a multitude of other reasons too, “I’ll take submission through blindness for $1000 Alex”) or the rider is over-handling the bit and basically whipping up egg whites into a meringue in the horse’s mouth. If any of these are true, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM, which means you don’t even have to try to communicate with an animal of a different species to fix the problem.” -Daniel Dauphin , creator of an excellent dvd on bits and hitting with extensive research and collaboration with vets dentists and more

08/07/2023

Little Owl keeping watch 🦉

23/06/2023

Pony Pinching 😏

Thanks for letting me steal your pony again and for babysitting 😘

02/06/2023

Baby Hunt arrived 17.05.2023 💙

Of course he's been on the yard and met Tamara already!

09/05/2023

Recovering from a busy Bank Holiday in the sun 💤

02/05/2023

Part Livery space available shortly due to one of our current liveries sadly selling up.

For more information, get in touch on 07563 000136.

Sadie

Address

Park House Farm
Knottingley
WF119LY

Website

http://www.sadieinthesaddle.com/

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Videos

Sunday's Polework Setup 💪

Lily found today's polework session rather exciting 😅 very well sat Gilly!

I call in priorities 🙈

All things horses 📸🐴

It's what equestrians call 'an interesting ride' 😅

Taking bookings now!

Laughing so much my cheeks hurt 😅 It's been a while since I've hacked with Jess and Gemma, and apparently not since the spring grass has come through because Skye and Vinnie were like different horses and absolutely ON ONE 🙈 Thankfully, Lily was her usual super cob, so I just sat back and laughed 😂

Lucie and Chester training in the jumping paddock ✈️ We started with some gridwork to establish a rhythm and encourage Chester to work from behind. Then, we broke the course down into sections before piecing it all together at the end. Look at them go 🙌 #equestrian #equines #jump #jumping #jumptraining #showjump #showjumper #showjumping #showjumphire #training #coach #intructor #ride #horseride #rider #riding #horseriding

I made it to halfway through my week off before I snuck out to give Honey a cuddle and some carrots 🤭 #horse #horses #liveryyard #equestrian #equestrianlife #equines #equinesofinstagram #youngster #twoyearold #equine #equinelove #equinelife

On Saturday, Lisa from @expertbits fitted Honey with her very own bridle and bit! It was such an interesting morning, learning about fitting a bridle correctly, choosing a suitable bit for your horse and their different palettes. It really is amazing how such a small change can make a big difference. Honey was extremely well-behaved, only getting a bit fidgety towards the end after trying different size nosebands and having a little play in-hand in the arena. After toing and froing between cob and full headstalls and nosebands, Honey is now in a cob size bridle with a comfy barrel full cheek, ready to start long lining in the summer 😬 #bit #bridle #bitfitting #newbridle #expertbits #equestrian #equinesofinstagram #youngster #tricolor #mare #filly #tricoloured #twoyearold #horse #horses

I have to pinch myself that this is my job 🥰 #horse #horses #horseriding #horserider #dream #dreamscometrue #schooling #livery #Cob #cobscan #piebaldcob #piebald #equestrian #equestrianlife #equestrianbusiness

That'll teach me! 🌨❄️ #snow #snowday #wintertraining #notafairweatherrider #equestrian #equestrianlife #winter #snowhorse #dayinthelife #snowing #snowyride #horses #horseriding #horserider

Families that work together, stay together 👀

Lucky to wake up to these beautiful sunrises 😍 A steady Sunday morning after a busy but fun first Saturday of the year, full of teaching and riding as well as a new livery joining us! Looking forward to the week ahead and more mornings like today 🌄 #livery #liveryyard #busyweekend #sunrise #horses

17 years of memories 💕

December mornings ❄️

This little one takes everything in her stride 💗 Honey was born on her previous yard, so has never travelled on a trailer or wagon until the day she moved here. Yesterday I decided to try loading her on the trailer, setting myself quite some time aside as it had taken a couple of hours to load her on moving day. It took 1 hour and 20 minutes of patiently waiting for her to choose to walk through the trailer all by herself. Today, it took 3 minutes 🥰 Patience and allowing her to make her own choices is slowly building her trust and confidence 🙌 #trailertraining #tricolour #youngster #twoyearold

Best decision I ever made 💗 #ratrace #selfemployed #equestrianbusiness #equestrianlife #bestdecisionever

Tamara stuffing her face in the rotation paddock 🐷 I was reluctant to move her as she doesn't cope well with change but, with an abundance of grass and none of the horses really needing extra, I decided to try her during the daytime! Looks to me like she's coping quite well 🙈 #equestrian #toomuchgrass #newpaddock #liveryyard