L2 SJ Coach (British Showjumping) Over 20 years experience.Insured/DBS checked/First Aid/Safeguarding
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2 shows in one week for me with some good results
Mollies first Novice with a rosette at prelim and Novice and a placing at Ellingham Show. I don’t usually go showing but it’s great experience for her and believe exposure is so important for young horses.
I’m super proud considering I bought her to Hack and hunt a horse with a good brain is everything to me as they are so trainable.
Number 1 hits home for me 😂
Funniest thing I’ve seen on Facebook in a long time 😂😂 Wish I could give the author credit but have no idea who wrote it.
THE REAL RULES OF DRESSAGE
1. If you really want to get better at dressage, take it up at an earlier age - and grow an extra 3 inches of leg.
2. A dressage test is a test of your skill against another competitor's luck.
3. Dressage is about achieving a harmonious working relationship with your horse, whose only idea of harmony is eating grass in a field with his buddies.
4. If you want to end a drought or dry spell, wear a new jacket and hat to an outdoor arena.
5. Untalented, difficult, aggressive horses have robust health, good hocks and long lives.
6. Talented tractable horses are accident prone and have OCD lesions.
7. You will ride the best test of your entire life just prior to being disqualified for not wearing your gloves.
8. Never keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your head before a test.
9. Never keep less than another 300 separate thoughts in your head during a test.
10. Horses do not improve their paces because you are wearing expensive German breeches.
11. If you chose a disco theme for your dressage to music test then the judge will be more than 90 years of age and Swiss.
12. The less skilled the rider, the more likely they are to share their critique of your test.
13. If you are considering the services of a horse clairvoyant to help you with training then you have reached the point of total desperation - try the German breeches.
14.Your horse has never heard of Podhajsky, let alone read the book.
15. No matter how badly you ride a test, it is always possible to ride a worse one.
16. If it ain't broke, try shifting your position and it will be.
17. Judges only suffer from temporary blindness (or kindness) when they are judging someone else's test.
18. If you fall off your horse in the arena you will have paid to have the test videoed.
19. If you are feeling confident before a show then three of the USET dressage team will turn up to give their young horses some "experience."
20. Your horse will perform its best piaffe ever when you ask for extended canter.
22. Since runs of bad competitions come in groups of three, the fourth competition is actually the beginning of the next group of three.
23. No one cheats at dressage because no one has worked out how to do it.
24. It is surprisingly easy to end a test with a perfect square halt once you have scored a four for every other movement.
25. The result of an expensive lesson from a top pro is that you will stop believing in that tiny piece of innate ability that was holding your riding together.
26. Remember when buying a dressage horse advertised as "needs experienced competitive rider" this really means "needs the skills of Isabelle Werth just to stay on board."
27. If you think your test was better than someone else's, it probably wasn't.
28. If you pay 60,000 for an imported WB, you will be beaten in First Level 4 by a Quarter Horse.
29. Clinics given by someone with an interesting accent are not necessarily superior to those given by the homegirl.
30. If you go to the expense of raising an expensive WB foal, he will have a talent for jumping and no walk worth talking about.
Photo credit Louise O'Brien Equestrian Photography
Consistency is everything with horses and riders
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Sadly Blue is looking for his person
I can’t give him the time around the kids and buisness and being out of action most of the summer - he really is the kindest boy
Contact Nikki Costello-Brummitt for information
I have lots of teaching availability now I am limited to this due to my injury so please get in touch (pictures of something I wont be boring you all with for a while 🤣 )
I have lesson availability
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Sadly Iv had cancellations with lame horses and poorly people
A step in the right direction 🫏 🐴
We're pleased to be uniting with member bodies to endorse the highest standards of equine welfare, wellbeing and ethics 🤝
The new British Equestrian Charter for the Horse outlines actions we all must observe to ensure individual mental, physical and behavioural needs of our horses are met.
Read the full charter here 👉 https://bit.ly/3TJXY8j
Support the charter by sharing the poster on tackroom walls, noticeboards and social media 🙏
Looking for second hand stable mats again
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Todays set up
Counting strides- turns - straightness- control
So many options for different level riders and horses 🐴
Get your entries in to some of these super shows!! 🐴
🌟🌟 Sponsorship announcement for our Crofton Showjumping series 🌟🌟
The wonderful Aimee Dovey Equestrian Coach has kindly sponsored our showjumping series at Crofton Equestrian!
Here’s a little bit about Aimee:
I am an experienced level 2 showjumping coach, committed to developing both riders and horses with a strong focus on flatwork as the foundation, to build confidence and equip riders with the necessary skills for success, to then take in the jumping ring.
🦄🦄 If you want to know more or book a lesson please get in touch with Aimee direct! 🦄🦄
Looking for an experienced liberty work trainer to come to me
Recommendations please
A little bit more success today in the pouring rain 🌧️
I was focused she was for the most part she really is a super girl with so much potential
Thanks Lisa Tribe super groom today
Charlie Cummings and Charlotte Tamar Francis-penny for constantly helping me out when I have too much on to physically do in a day so I can get out competing and riding and following my dreams too 🥰
If anyone wants to come to my arena hire at Dynamo either poles/ xpole or jump sessions this Saturday
Please let me know as iv had some cancellations
I have spaces at 10.30 and 11.30
Thanks
I have some lesson space tomorrow and Friday message me to book 📖
Great sessions today 5 combinations taught working on lots of different goals from straightness to suppleness to tempo.
This pole set up worked well for the experienced and baby horses.
I really enjoyed seeing the endurance horses tackle this set up. They come to me to compliment their training helping with fitness/ strength which helps mix up their training and keep their brains switched on
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The Highway Code has changed from today (29.01.22)
When driving, you should now pass horse riders and horse-drawn vehicles at speeds under 10 mph and allow at least 2 metres of space. Check the changes, let’s keep each other safe.
Find out more about the changes https://www.gov.uk/government/news/the-highway-code-8-changes-you-need-to-know-from-29-january-2022
All my lovely clients - a few of you have asked . I’m going to hire Dynamo next month on a Saturday can I have expressions of interest who would like to join me for a jump round so I know how long to book for
I can pair you up/ group or do individual depending on what you want to do this includes pole work
Thanks!
Mollie is a superstar 🌟
Never seen white boards never been to Crofton and just went a little green and spooky however today was a leaning curve for me
I expected to go in and do well - I wasn’t prepared enough and I haven’t really got my brain back into competition riding so time to work a little harder on this.
I had the kindest judge who realised I had a complete mind blank and I hope I see her again when my brain works with me as she gave me such lovely feedback ☺️
Anyway I got some nice pictures 😂
Everyone has bad days
What colour will you wear in the ring ?
MAKING SENSE OF THE NEW COLOUR RULES FOR BREECHES…
I’m really pleased to see significant updates this year to British Eventing, British Dressage and Pony Club rules, following last year’s Riding Club rules update which mean that archaic, outdated rules about having to wear light coloured breeches have been relaxed. However, I’ve already heard reports that judges and stewards are incorrectly pulling people up for wearing dark breeches at dressage competitions – which is unnecessarily stressful for people trying to adopt a more modern way of participating in our sports.
So I’ve pulled together content from all of the main rulebooks for 2024 in one place for easy reference. Of course, rather than reach an agreed position across all organisations, there are nuances between each rulebook which you’ll need to consider. The British Showjumping rules have not been updated and are now more restrictive than all other disciplines. FEI rules are unchanged and still specify white or off-white breeches for eventing dressage and jumping tests.
Please do like and share this post to make it easy for people to find. If any judge or steward questions the colour of your breeches, you can reference the following rules or pages in the 2024 handbooks:
British Eventing:
Rule 7.13/7.14/7.15 “Breeches may be white, buff, fawn, navy or black”
British Dressage:
Rule 83 “Breeches or jodhpurs should predominately be of a solid, single colour. Dark-coloured contrast seats are permitted. Striped or bold patterned breeches or jodhpurs are not permitted.”
British Showjumping
Page 101 “Breeches or jodhpurs must be white, pale yellow, beige, grey or fawn in colour. Black or Navy are not allowed”
British Riding Clubs:
Page 92 “White, cream, beige, black or any muted colour of breeches or jodhpurs may be worn.”
Pony Club:
Dressage and Eventing Dressage “Breeches – should predominately be of a solid, single colour. Dark-coloured contrast seats are permitted. Striped or bold patterned breeches or jodhpurs are not permitted. White, cream or beige (with or without dark-coloured contrast seats) are encouraged for all Area, Regional and Championship Competitions and the Home International Competition.”
Eventing SJ/XC “Jodhpurs/Breeches – white, cream, beige, dark or muted colours may be worn. Dark-coloured contrast seats are permitted.”
Showjumping –“Jodhpurs/Breeches: must be white, fawn, beige, canary or light grey in colour. Dark-coloured contrast seats are permitted.”
And a few extra thoughts:
WHAT COLOUR TO CHOOSE?
If you’re keen to embrace the flexibility of the new rules, you’ll need to work out what’s allowed for each discipline you participate in. Black or navy will now be permissible across eventing, dressage and riding clubs – and for the majority of pony club activities. The darkest permissible colour for showjumping and Pony Club showjumping is a ‘light grey’, which isn’t technically permissible for British Eventing (although there are shades of light grey which might scrape into passing as ‘fawn’). Dark coloured contrast seats are only specifically allowed by British Dressage and within some Pony Club disciplines – but they may well be allowed by other disciplines – and you should seek clarification directly from those organisations if you want to wear them without any risk of challenge from officials. If you want one pair of competition breeches that are allowed for all three of the Olympic disciplines, unfortunately you’re still in white or beige territory…
WHY WEAR DARK BREECHES?
Equestrian sports need to demonstrate that they’re able to flex and move with the times. Our rules should be focused on protecting the welfare of our equine and human participants and on creating a level sporting playing field for participants – not on protecting dubious traditions. No-one can 100% agree on why light-coloured breeches are part of our traditional rules, but it is thought likely that wearing white breeches became popular on the hunting field in order to demonstrate that you were wealthy enough to be able to pay someone else to groom and look after your horse, and that you were able to simply get on and ride without having to do any of the work that would get you dirty. I don’t think this type of classist behaviour is something we should be hanging on to. I am fed up of putting studs in out eventing and needing to constantly be wary of getting grime on my beige breeches.
Allowing dark breeches is also much more inclusive – lots of people don’t feel comfortable wearing white breeches, and we shouldn’t be allowing old dress rules to discourage people from participating in equestrian sports. And anyone who’s ever experienced heavy periods during menstruation will appreciate just how anxiety-inducing it can be to need to wear white breeches during a competition that falls on the wrong day of the month.
And, of course, no-one has to stop wearing the traditional colours they want to wear – it is instead about creating a modern and inclusive dress code for the sport that encompasses more options that make people feel comfortable.
ANY OUTFIT INSPO?
I’m personally going to be trying out the navy breeches this season in combination with my navy jacket – Vittoria Panizzon rides in Italian military uniform of a navy jacket with navy breeches and always looks incredibly smart.
Selling this 17.5 Kent and Masters GP
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Seriously cold day teaching and riding today !
Another lovely set up then customised for flatwork and Polework. Well done to all my riders riding in all this cold! However if you aren’t riding as much as you want to better days are coming 😊
Off to defrost ❄️
I am going to be starting some pole/jump clinics once the weather improves
What do you enjoy most and what makes you book again ?
Looking for 16.2 upwards mother daughter share
Must have a level head
Must be able to Hack on the New Forest and deal with CRAB flies and all the spookiness it brings hacking here
Have a jumping record at least to BN and Discovery be level to a fence and have automatic changes
If hunted a bonus but must be the ultimate schoolmaster/mistress with no real hang ups
GOOD Budget
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How epic was this sunset last night when I was lunging 🌅
We have a dry few weeks get riding !!!
I have never ever had such testing conditions over a winter to deal with as i have this year !
Can it stop now 🫠
Sending best wishes to all my other fellow equestrians trying to earn a living in these awful conditions
A great set up today for those who braved the wind 🌬️ which could be altered for jumping and canter work 👍
🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you for your wonderful support in the last year.
Enjoy all the food today and get back in the saddle tomorrow 🐴
I am looking for a second hand wide jump saddle
Not fussy on make or colour but I like big blocks
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I get asked this ALOT - there are so many factors but right now where I have had a break from jumping iv had to work very hard to get riding again and and beginning to feel happier to a fence . I always tell my lovely clients I face the same challenges as them and to take their time and train for success 💪
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