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we coach privately on a one to one basis on our own premises or will travel to your own yard. We take in horses for schooling on the flat and xcountry

22/01/2025

Beautiful evening rolling inn and the guys ready for food time

22/01/2025

Good read

03/01/2025

What a morning 🌅

12/12/2024

Private lessons on our beautiful school master Diego available on request

05/12/2024

The camouflage king 😂😂😂

03/12/2024

More on the German phrase that says “riding is only learned by sweeping.”

I remember an example of this one night, about 40 years ago, when I was spending a month at Walter Christensen’s dressage training stable, Stal Tasdorf, in Tasdorf, Germany. (photo of Walter teaching)

Walter’s main barn had a cobblestone type of floor, hard to keep clean because of all the indentations, and in various corners were funny little Hansel and Gretel type brooms, straight handles with what looked like a bunch of twigs wired to one end.

Everyone had left, all the working students, all the riders, and here was the master, then coach of the Swedish Olympic dressage team, vigorously giving the aisle one last cleanup before turning out the lights.

In the great scheme of things, why would it matter one iota whether the aisle was immaculate? Early next morning, when all the horses were being fed, hay and straw would get spilled all around, and who was going to see that floor in the middle of the night?

But that’s not the point, is it? And for those who do see the point, they probably would have been at one end of the broom. And for those who can’t grasp why it mattered to Walter, they’d have left it as it was.

To what extent can pride in a way of doing things be taught? Because that’s what’s at play here, I think.

And pride in one detail spills over into pride about other details, until it creates a mindset, a way of being. Or not---And in that way, sweeping teaches riding, tenuous as the connection might seem.

27/11/2024

Our German 🇩🇪 visitor having a trot around on Diego today

20/11/2024

Yard cat 🐈 I think not 🙂gins hard morning of it

20/11/2024

Beautiful old badger waiting to be fed on this cold frosty morning

31/10/2024

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25/10/2024

Baby piglets first canter

19/09/2024

😂😂I’m sure people certain people in the livery yard here know this feeling 😂😂

08/09/2024

Super site on a Sunday evening finally into the after grass

04/09/2024

My 25 year resident wonder of the stables aka badger

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