CT.Coaching.Equine_Services

11/08/2024

What a day 🤩 in January we decided to give the ginger terror one last chance at being a kids pony 🙈 fast forward 8 months and my little dream team are bringing home not only red rosettes but golden tickets and a reserve champion 🙌🏻🥰🏆 Kevvo adores his mini human and they make the cutest couple 🥰 although when he finds out she’s got her sights set on the showjumping ring next year he may change his mind 🤣🤣🙈

12/06/2024

Coaching/schooling doesn’t have to be in an arena …. This is Freda. Freda’s owner contacted me as she was having problems with Freda out hacking such as napping, spinning and planting. Freda was worse in company using another horse as a barrier to moving forward. Medical issues had been explored and discounted as had various bits and gadgets….. fast forward 4 weeks and Freda is happily tootling round the village with me enjoying her work again 🙌🏻🙌🏻 all work has been done with no access to an arena or field to ride in. No arena 🤷‍♀️ no problem 😉 no need for it to be a barrier to progressing and having fun with our four legged friends 😎👌

13/05/2024

My little superstars at lloc show yesterday

13/02/2024

Time flies when you are having fun 🤩 3 years ago today we picked this gangly legged Bambi up 🤣 110% one of the best buys I’ve ever made 💖 yes he has sass 🤣🤷‍♀️ but he’s one of the most versatile and genuine horses I’ve ever sat on, he tries his heart out for me every time we go out and I wouldn’t swap him for the world 🥰

22/12/2023

Well that’s my boots and hat officially hung up for Christmas 🙌🏻🤩🎄Happy Christmas everyone from myself and Mr P, see you in 2024 🥂🍾🎉🎉

13/11/2023

Day out of “the office” today refreshing my first aid qualification 🤕😷🤒 course provider said he always knows a day full of equestrians is going to be an interesting one as between us we’ve generally had experience of every injury going 🤣🤣🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

31/07/2023

Hunter trial fun on Saturday with my fave 🩵

27/07/2023

Today the lovely Foxy went off to his new home 🩵 Foxy’s owner contacted me in April with a view to selling Foxy, he’d not been ridden for 2 years and being a man of senior years (18) his owner was wanting to give him the best chance possible of finding a new forever home. In 4 months he’s transformed from fluffy field ornament to fit and healthy, ready for hacking and riding club fun 🤩 I hope his new owner has as much fun with him as I’ve had these past few months 😀🐴

17/06/2023

Cheers 🥂 and Happy 3rd Birthday 🥳 to .coaching.equine_services!! Raising a G&T in the blazing Menorcan heat to another successful year of trading ☀️🐴🍾 huge thanks as always to my wonderful clients and their 4 legged friends, don’t think I will ever tire of helping you fulfill your goals and ambitions no matter how big or small they are 👏🏻💪😘 and to my family and friends for their unwavering support and endless childcare 🤣👌🏻 working with horses keeps to no timescale as my amazing parents and husband well know 🙈🙈😘 here’s to the next 12 months of fun 🙌🏻 well starting Monday 😉 I’m off to soak up the last of the sun 🏖️☀️🥳

27/05/2023

This ⬇️ 👌🏻👌🏻

Developing Empathy

Frustrated by your horse? Try this---

Go for a run. Yes, you, human rider. Intersperse your run with sets of push-ups. See how long it takes before you lose athletic buoyancy, before you “just can’t.”

Fatigue in a horse, which is pretty much the same thing that you just felt, creates leaning, tripping, stumbling, slow reactions, poor coordination, lugging on the hand, all sorts of what you may be mistaking for “bad behavior.”

The tired horse will feel just like a “disobedient” horse. And then what will happen to that horse if the rider doesn’t tune into the horse’s fatigue? You know exactly what will happen to the horse. It will get drilled on. Drilled on just when the exact opposite should happen.

Trainers who lack the ability to sense what the horse is going through are among the worst drillers, and they create tense, scared, resistant horses, and they then do something even worse, they blame the horse.

Change your mind set. Think how YOU would feel if you had gotten beyond your limits and then got ground on and punished to fix your bad behavior.

You think I’m kidding? You think this isn’t going to happen today, all across the world where people ride and drive horses? That unfit for the task horses won’t be cranked and pressured? Dream on.

The best thing that you can do if your goal is to become a competent trainer is to constantly be aware of your own frustration meter. And stop before you create damage, physical and emotional injury and distress. Get a little and end on that. If even a little seems elusive, DO NOT GRIND. Go walk, try again tomorrow. Don’t add fear and anxiety to the training process.

I will say this one more time---“Don’t add fear and anxiety to the training process.”

Why am I saying this so often? Because if I had learned this decades sooner, I would have been a far better trainer and horse person---That’s why. Learn, if you are capable of doing so, from the mistakes that others have made. Do not drill your horse.

27/05/2023

Lovely little play on Tamara Holmes home produced Blondie yesterday 🩷 at just 4 years old this golden beauty is going to be something special 🤩🤩

22/03/2023

Spring is in the air finally 🤣🐎💨 4 happy horses worked today in the sunshine ☀️☀️ including a hack on my boy 💙 summer we are so ready for you 😎☀️☀️😎

21/02/2023

The best boy trying his hardest for me on Sunday at Kelsall 😍💖

31/12/2022

A fabulous year of learning for the boy, he’s turned his hoof to a bit of everything from working hunter, to eventing to BS and he’s never disappointed 😍 looking forward to another year of fun with him in 2023! Happy new year to all our friends and clients 😘 here’s to another successful year for us all 🥂🍾🎉