Roz Neave is on a photographic tour of the showjumping action in Florida
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April 5th, 2013 at 7:50 amMichelle Strapp – Educating Young Riders Part 2
February 20th, 2013 at 10:48 am
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…
Read ArticleKannan – the next ‘dominator’?
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:34 am
Story – Christopher Hector The WBFSH stallion rankings are never what you’d call breaking news, year after year, the lists are pretty much the same. Seemingly forever, the jumping standings have been headed by the late, and very great, Darco – and indeed about half the top ten spots are held by horses gone to…[More]
Read ArticleAustralia’s Matt Williams Wins 1.45m Class in America…
January 19th, 2012 at 2:26 am
Matt Williams has won the $8,000 G&C Farm 1.45m Jumpers Class in the second week of the FTI Winter Equestrian Festival. Matt won the class on his 11-year-old Belgian Warmblood, Bolero van’t Heike. The 2012 FTI Winter Equestrian Festival is a 12 week competition that concludes on April 1, 2012, with more $6 million in…[More]
Read ArticleWBFSH Rankings 2011
January 16th, 2012 at 5:31 am
Showjumping at home with Jamie Coman
January 15th, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Training at home with showjumper Jamie Coman and the young stallion Noblewood Park Beretta.
Read ArticleVicki Roycroft – A showjumping life
January 4th, 2012 at 12:07 am
Four Showjumping Masters – Part 1: George Morris
July 10th, 2010 at 6:17 am
One of the many great strengths of American showjumping has been the influence of a series of great teachers – great trainers who were also great theoreticians, and luckily for us, great writers, and willing and able to put their teachings down in books for others to read and use. This series looks at the crucial work of four great masters of American jumping – Gordon Wright, Bertalan de Neméthy, William Steinkraus and George Morris – and just to confuse matters, we’ll start the series with the only one who is still vigorously active in the sport, George Morris since his book, The American Jumping Style provides an invaluable historical overview of the sport… or is it art?
Read ArticleFour Showjumping Masters – Part 3 Bertalan de Némethy
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The American Showjumping style needed a final polish, and it came in the form of the Hungarian rider and trainer, Bert de Nemethy…
Read ArticleFOUR SHOWJUMPING MASTERS – Part 2: William Steinkraus
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In this second part of our series, we look at the rider George Morris, described as ‘the man who epitomised style on horseback’ – William Steinkraus. Of the books discussed in this series, Steinkraus’ Reflections of Riding and Jumping – Winning Techniques for Serious Riders is the only one still in print…
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