Francesca Leslie Equine Physiotherapist

17/12/2024

😁🐎📘 Physio Fun for the Healthy Happy Horse - the perfect book for your 'horsey' friends and family!

🌟 £10 plus postage.👌

🤩 Be inspired! More than 30 tips and exercises to help keep your horse or pony in tip top condition.

What's inside?
🐴 Horse management
🐴 Pole work
🐴 Schooling and ground work
🐴 Hacking hacks

✅ Easy to read
✅ Step by step illustrations (🖌 designed and illustrated by Amy-Dee Creative )
✅ Collated in a handy flip book to save you from scrolling through social media feeds for exercises!

👉 DM me via Facebook or Instagram to order yours.

09/12/2024

One space available for jump lesson at 12.30 on Weds 11 Dec with John Thornton at High Hesket. Height 80-90cm. Contact for more info/to book. Over 18s only. Non members welcome.

15/11/2024

This! 😎💪

Yes, we back our horses at 3. They go up and down the lane with an older horse for a few days and if they’re strong enough they 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 wtc in the arena a couple of times before they go back to grass and we won’t do anything with them again until they are 4.

At 4, they come in and out of the field for a few weeks work at a time - mostly hacking with the odd day in the school and the even more occasional jump. We will take them Xc schooling once (or twice if they need to go twice) and they will jump round a small course of fences before the year is out. They won’t be at every 4yo class in the country or going to shows week in week out…

Now by this point we probably no longer own the horse 🤣 because our clients love how we produce them and come looking for them. But if we still have them at 5years old - then they will start to do a few shows but built on the same mantra as their 4yo year - in and out of the field for a few weeks work at a time with lots of hacking and more pole/cavalettis than jumps. It’s about teaching them balance, relaxation and suppleness - it’s not about winning classes or even jumping clear rounds at this stage. The horse needs to have a conscience but it’s your job to get him to the fence in good balance and it’s his job to get his legs out of the way.

A very wise horseman told me many years ago “horses are born with only so many jumps in them - don’t use them up unnecessarily”. And it stuck with me forever. Train and produce for longevity, not a short term monetary or ego goal.

30/10/2024

https://equustelevision.com/watch/3724

Horses and the Science of Harmony, a film produced by UK equine performance specialist Dr. Sue Dyson and US-based Kathryn Lauritzen of Padma Video, is available now on the EQUUS Television Network.

09/10/2024

Super proud of these two! 👏👏🏆🥇

The 2024 HOYS mini M&M championship went to the winning first-ridden pairing of Prestyn Patterson and Welsh section B Celton Avallon...

06/10/2024

Lots coming up with John Peel Riding Club this month. A visit to Tristan Davidson Racing Stables followed by a pub lunch.🏇🏇 Pilates for riders, lots of laughs in this class. 🧘‍♀️🧘🏻‍♂️. And our regular training as well.. Come and join the fun 🤩

⁉️ What’s on ….. ⁉️

🧘 Pilates for riders with Sally Reid, Rider Rehab, 6 week course starting Monday 14 October
https://johnpeelridingclub.myclubhouse.co.uk/Events/Calendar/View?id=190

🐎 Gridwork with Jess Rawsthorn, Saturday 19 October https://johnpeelridingclub.myclubhouse.co.uk/Events/Calendar/View?id=185

🐎 Jumping with John Thornton course, skinnies, lines on Wednesday 23 October
https://johnpeelridingclub.myclubhouse.co.uk/Events/Calendar/View?id=185

🐴 Groundwork or Flatwork with Jo Birkbeck on Saturday 26 October
https://johnpeelridingclub.myclubhouse.co.uk/Events/Calendar/View?id=197

🐎🥘 Social day out to the Davidson’s followed by lunch at the pub on Sunday 27 October
https://johnpeelridingclub.myclubhouse.co.uk/Events/Calendar/View?id=196

08/09/2024

Today is World Physiotherapy day!

Check out the RAMP register to find a Veterinary Physiotherapist, Chiropractor or Osteopath near you ➡️ https://www.rampregister.org/the-register

06/09/2024

Our little grafter Hannah Crawford is spending her Sunday off running Great North Run this weekend. Her chosen charity is bowel cancer following her Papa’s cruel diagnosis.
She/we and all bowel cancer sufferers would be very grateful if you can give anything at all to support them and Hannah 🏃‍♀️ ⬇️

https://www.justgiving.com/page/hannah-crawford-1708629703608?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fhannah-crawford-1708629703608&utm_source=whatsapp&utm_campaign=pfp-whatsapp

03/09/2024

warm up for Penrith Horse Trials by NCHT

We now have a date for XC training on grass with John Thornton at High Hesket: Thursday 12 September. 🐎
Perfect for anyone looking for a tune up before Penrith Horse Trials.
Non members (over 18s) welcome.

https://johnpeelridingclub.myclubhouse.co.uk/Events/Calendar/View?id=187

31/08/2024

No Membership Needed and Unpublished Results makes British Eventing accessible for all!

28/08/2024

**NEW SCOTTISH BE VENUE FOR 2025**

Following on from the exciting Scone Palace International announcement, we are delighted to confirm that South of Scotland Horse Trials will also be joining the Scottish Eventing calendar for 2025.

With the help of an enthusiastic local committee, the Clark family will organise the South of Scotland Horse Trials on their home turf of Valleyfield Farm, near Twynholm in the South West of Scotland.

28/08/2024

British Eventing (BE) is pleased to announce that the former Frenchfield site will now hold an event under a new name and management team.

15/08/2024

Cross CountryThe cross country courses will be built by Rob McSkimming, who was part of the build team for Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and Luhmuhlen International Horse Trials as well as multiple British Eventing sites including but not limited to Belsay International Horse Trials, Hopetoun Horse Trials,...

02/08/2024

01/08/2024

This!