January 2017 – The Horse Magazine

A Princess Nathalie Clinic…

January 30th, 2017
When young Showjumping rider, Megan Joyce lined up for her lesson with dressage trainer, and international top ten competitor, Princess Nathalie zu Wittgenstein, who better to send to record the interaction, than top showjumping coach, Michelle Strapp... Read Article Comments Off

Breeding Values – something old but something is VERY NEW

Christopher Hector tries to make sense of the new breeding values... Read Article Comments Off

Working with a new combination – Winnie takes another step

January 25th, 2017
Our favourite young horse, Winsome has just come back into work after some time off. She is back with 14-year-old Laura Rowe in the saddle, and coach Michelle Strapp on the ground… Words by Chris Hector and photos by Roz Neave Michelle easing Winnie back into work: “In the past three months, she has had […] Read Article Comments Off

Anne Kursinski talks about showjumping for eventers…

Anne Kursinski is one of the incredibly successful, effective, and stylish American Showjumping riders. Here she talks about the development of the style that has seen the US dominate the world… Over the past twenty-five years, under the guidance of Bert de Némethy, the U.S. has become noted for both the beauty and effectiveness of […] Read Article Comments Off

Jessie Fleming takes a lesson with Matt Ryan

January 24th, 2017
The year 2000 was when Matt Ryan collected his second Olympic team gold medal, to go with the individual and team medals he had won at Barcelona in 1994. When Matt visited the THM office in Pakenham Upper, it seemed a good opportunity to put him to work, and make an article for the magazine… […] Read Article Comments Off

Herman de Brabander – Vale

Vale Herman de Brabander. The Belgian breeder has died, we pay tribute... Read Article 2 Comments »

Top of the Bates World Cup leaderboard!

January 23rd, 2017
Clint Beresford has now officially taken out the World Cup Qualifier Series for 2016/17, and finishes the year on the top of the Bates World Cup Leaderboard. His ride, Emmaville Jitterbug is also the Bates Golden Grand leading horse for the season. Clint tells us about his ride at the Boneo Park Qualifier, the last […] Read Article Comments Off

French Eventing – Part Three: The Riders and the Trainers

January 20th, 2017
Christopher Hector set out to find the reasons for the French Eventing success at the Rio Games… I was assisted in my travels by the French international horse marketing body, UNIC, but an added bonus was to meet up with Babette Schily at Pau****. Babette is an astute observer of the French eventing scene – as […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Ride with your mind over obstacles and in the dressage arena with Mary Wanless

January 18th, 2017
Mary Wanless changed the way the riding world looked at the mechanics of riding. In this article she applies her knowledge to the problems faced by the dressage rider and the eventing rider... with some very interesting conclusions! Read Article Comments Off

Aachen Challenge Winner: Stephanie Spencer

Stephanie Spencer winner of the Marcus Oldham Challenge at the Pryde’s EasiFeed Dressage Festival at the end of last year. Meet Steph… Read Article 1 Comment »