Breakfast in bed for the top girl💗
Promise we get work done!🤣
WORKING LIVERY AVAILABLE
We have a potential stable coming available in the near future for a working livery pony/horse to join our team at MA Equestrian!
We would also consider a full loan.
Message me for details☺️
Sneak peak of some early Christmas presents for the yard😍 thank you PolyJumps 🦄🎄
Happy Halloween🎃
Slightly late Halloween video of the Shetlands… but think Carrot wasn’t quite sure what to think of the Shrek themed pumpkin!🤣
Summer gets a clip💛
First clip of the winter and Summer was good as gold (even had a snooze while her face got clipped!)🥰
What does MA Equestrian do on a hot day?☀️
Give all the ponies, horses and even Shetlands a bath day!🫧🤪
How many strides between each jump?🤪
Day in the life of a 21 year old running her own livery yard and riding school!
Phoenix having a jump today!! He’s an absolute dude😍
Poppy grabbed a fantastic double clear with second place🥈 at the weekend at Bury Farm Equestrian Village 🥰
She really is on fire at the minute🤩
Last two qualifiers this weekend for Aintree so fingers crossed🤞🏼😁
🥕Carrot wasn’t quite sure what a dog was today!😂
Who said cobs can’t jump?!😍
Roxy flying round the show on Sunday🔥
new 4 year old Darcy settled in well. having a wolf tooth removed last week she’s now got a little break to recover then can bring her back into ridden work this weekend. excited to see what this girl can do!
Morning hack before games in the afternoon!👻🎃
Poppy and I are loving the sunshine at the moment! 🤩
The good ones take time.
Watch quietly from the sidelines as those who try to shortcut with the bridle, bits and gadgets become unstuck at the first sign of a challenge.
Get used to sitting with your head in your hands having to take deep breaths or halting in the middle of the arena to stare at the ceiling for fear that frustration will take the reins and undo everything you’ve worked on.
Allow her to question, allow her to protest. You have to be in this together, it has to be a partnership not a dictatorship so they have to know they have a say and that you are listening. Mutual understanding and respect should be the foundations on which you build.
Be prepared to taste your arena surface.
Don’t allow others to convince you a ‘more experienced jumper’ would have suited you better or ‘she may never come right’. Trust your gut, you saw something in that horse so work your ass off to prove it.
Do not be swayed by trainers encouraging you to just ‘try’ the draw reins or the bigger bit. Don’t succumb to the pressure to ‘tell it whose boss’. When the clock is ticking and the stride just isn’t there you have to trust each other, that isn’t going to come with force.
Give this horse your heart. I’m not saying she won’t break it because she will, but when the day comes when she lets you into his, she really will go to the ends of the earth for you. But until then, have tissues and a playlist of sad songs at the ready.
And just when you think you can’t take one more ride, when you feel like you’ve given every part of yourself this and you can’t physically, emotionally and mentally manage anymore. Keep going. Nobody said this was going to be easy but it might be worth it, because the most valuable thing you can give a horse is time...
... and the good ones take time.
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Really pleased with how Valleys training is coming along🥰 we have the saddle fitter coming out this week so once we get a new saddle we can start trotting!
Coaching my sponsored rider Emily Chapman the other evening!
We looked more at the flat work and then introduced a small gymnastic exercise (bounces on a curve). We started off with some leg yielding and moved onto some counter canter.
In the video you can see the attempt at the bounces they rode into them on a slightly off line and the canter didn’t have enough energy. However the second attempt Emily created more of a balanced and energetic canter and also kept a good bend without drifting out and staying on the line.
Such a difference in one lesson! Well done Emily 🥰
Sponsored riders! 🥰
Lovely day coaching my sponsored riders yesterday!
First I went down and saw Emily Jane Curtis with Minnie. We worked on some grid work. We started off with some trotting poles into two bounce jumps. This helps the horse become independent and encourages the rider and horse to become more supple but still keeps the energy. Then had one stride into an upright and another one stride into a cross pole. I put the cross pole in the middle as it will help encourage straightness while going through the grid. And at the end we did a one stride into a slightly larger oxer with V poles. The v poles also help them keep straight and take off evenly over the fence.
I then went down and saw Emily Chapman. We did something a bit different yesterday. We put 3 raised trot poles across the centre line and 3 bounce fences across the centre line at the other end of the school (to make a 20m circle at x in the middle). This is a really good exercise as it helps with transitions, builds up strength and improves the top line. It’s also a good exercise for us riders to let the horse figure out the footfall and think more independently without us interfering too much.
So proud of both riders🥰 Well done to you both!
