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When you see good teaching, really good instruction, you realise that it is both very simple and very subtle. Michelle Strapp is an exceptional trainer, with a string of successful students to prove it. In part two of our series with Michelle we join her training Jacob Wells…
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Michelle Strapp is a gifted trainer and with her talented squad of young riders is facing the challenge of producing the next generation of jumping stars…
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From The Horse Magazine Archives… We are back at Coolart Farm on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, where Jamie Coman and his wife, Sue and daughter, Hayley have set up their showjumping centre. Jamie is in a familiar role, standing in the middle of the arena coaching: this time it is Sue riding Laura Santry and her…[More]
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From The Horse Magazine Archives… You can tell in those crucial first couple of steps when horses – particularly young horses – have been ridden correctly… they go easily and without fuss into a nice frame. I guess, given Jamie Coman’s reputation for demanding first class work on the flat, it should come as no…[More]
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We continue our jump-by-jump examination of what it takes to get around a showjumping course with master coach, George Sanna. Last month we looked at verticals – this month – oxers. “When we were discussing verticals I mentioned that in many ways the oxer is an easier jump – the horse balances itself and maybe…[More]
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This month we continue our jump-by-jump series and look at the ‘simplest’ of the showjumping obstacles, the vertical.
According to George: “I think the first thing to understand about jumping any jump is that the jump is by and large an extension of the canter. If the canter is flat and long, then most likely, the jump will be flat and long. If the canter is short and bouncy, then he’s going to jump up in the air with not a lot of scope…”
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This series of articles with showjumping master-coach, George Sanna will take you jump by jump through the obstacles you are likely to encounter in a showjumping round but before you even get to enter the ring, there is another fence that you should be able to use constructively to help you in your round – the practice fence.
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Like our dressage riders, showjumping riders have to find the balance, a horse that is light, but not too light, a horse that is on the aids and that will try to find the contact. For jumpers this is doubly essential because it lets them shorten and lengthen the stride and find that elusive ‘right’…[More]
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Story: Chris Hector Our digitally switched on readers have doubtless been enjoying Hayley Coman’s refreshingly frank blog – posted from her new ‘home’, the training stables of Henk Nooren in Belgium. We caught up with the young Australian showjumping rider on a recent visit to Europe, and she tried to explain just what it is…[More]
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Before Roz and I went to the Games selection trials in France, we enjoyed being part the Oldenburg tour group. We had interesting lectures, saw a sale preview, plus we saw some real live horses in action, and our first stop was the showjumping yard of Danish star, Sören Pedersen. Sören has been an international…[More]
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He’s a typical big, hot, Thoroughbred, and Michelle is certainly not going to keep him under control with force, but she looks at home on the big black horse, on which she has already competed. And it’s easy to see why once the lesson gets underway, because, surprise, surprise, it’s how every good working session…[More]
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Roger Fitzhardinge sits in on a training session with the Chugg’s latest stallion, the Balou du Rouet son, Baluga…
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