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Leg yielding – when, how and why – with Christian Theiss

April 20th, 2021
“The moment to begin to use leg yielding in your everyday preparation is when the inside leg of the horse is ready to carry more weight through the previous preparation performed on one track i.e. through properly executed turns (riding correctly and deep enough through corners) or circles of different sizes. The turn on the […] Read Article Comments Off

Top Tips from George Morris

George Morris, who literally wrote the book on jumping position, comments on top riders over the CHIO course. Wisdom, great riders, great course: “This is a very good example of the release versus the crest release, this is what we call the automatic release. Here you have a straight line, elbow to the horse’s mouth […] Read Article Comments Off

Ulla Salzgeber on Basic Truths

April 19th, 2021
“We ride them very deep and low but you always have to control the neck and the head. If you can’t control the neck – that it is long, that it is short, that it is up and it is down – you have problems. Many people ride with the head down and that is […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Sympatico tops the April Auction

April 18th, 2021
(Verden Press Release) The Verden auction online in April developed into a lively market place. The 67 talented riding horses cost an average of 25,634 Euros. The statistics were immediately led by the head number one. Sympatico was auctioned off for 105,000 Euros to a dressage trainer from Hesse. 105 bids were placed until the […] Read Article Comments Off

Top Tip on Riding Piaffe with Carl Hester

April 17th, 2021
“When you piaffe, you should be sitting over your knee, not sitting on your backside.” “I was told by ‘Rocky’* when you go forward you bring your body forward and when you want to come back, you bring your body back. And it is amazing how most of us do the opposite to that. He […] Read Article Comments Off

Stefan Wolff – Tips on Warming Up the Young Horse

April 16th, 2021
Grace Kay working with Stefan Wolff on warming up the young horse: “Get her to stretch. You don’t have to always let the stretch go through, it’s more that they offer the stretch and that in itself helps the back. Sometimes pat them after the whip so they know it’s normal. ‘I’m not punishing you I’m […] Read Article Comments Off

Jean Bemelmans top tip – what makes a winning horse?

April 15th, 2021
“As long as they are ready to stretch after exercise, it means they are good, there is no tension, nothing. He cannot be more supple than he is today, he is good – he can go now for a walk in the wood…” Jean Bemelmans talks about putting the horse in balance and self […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Riding across country with Christopher Bartle

April 14th, 2021
Riding a cross-country course – Step 1 Starting out on course: Christopher Bartle, Badminton winner, and trainer of Multi Medal winning teams, looks at a few of the Adelaide four-star cross country fences, and more importantly, explains how they should be ridden… “Fence 1 is quite a simple fence, but we want to see our preparation […] Read Article Comments Off

Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro, a happy story…

Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro are without doubt one of the greatest partnerships ever in competitive dressage. We were lucky enough to share their preparation for their last victory, a Gold Medal at Rio. Back in early 2016, Team Hester took Valegro on a holiday to Jerez in Spain. The sunshine tour was the perfect opportunity to […] Read Article Comments Off

More Truth from Dr Gerd Heuschmann

April 12th, 2021
“The horse cannot perform any of these movements well without arching (tensing) and relaxing the spinal column, which we call swinging. Swinging starts with the hind legs, travels through the spine to the head and the front legs and brings the horse into contact with the bit. The swings can be seen, felt and heard; […] Read Article Comments Off