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Stefan Wolff tips on riding and training flying changes

March 19th, 2021
“Riders can have nightmares about flying changes. Because to scramble over a half pass can be easier than to have a late change that everyone sees. The change is a measure of throughness, of activity and co-ordination and a big measure of balance. It is the change of the front and hind legs at the […] Read Article Comments Off

Stars of the Day

March 18th, 2021
Fasine (Fürst Romancier / Sir Donnerhall I) and Isabel Bache. Winners of the Six-Year-Old Finals at the 2015 Bundeschampionships. Fasine is an example of the new breed of Warmblood – the modern young horse specialist. Her sire, Fürst Romancier’s career peaked as a five-year-old, with fourths at the World Young Horse Champs and the […] Read Article Comments Off

Top Tip from Jonny Hilberath, German Coach

March 17th, 2021
Top Tip from Jonny Hilberath, German team coach You see these open mouths/ tight necks. What’s the basic missing? “The correct moving of the back – the contact forward from the hand. It is the wrong pressure in the horse; the wrong tension in the horse also mental tension in the horse because the mouth […] Read Article 2 Comments »

Pole exercise for the day, for everyone

March 16th, 2021
For latitudinal stretch, accuracy of line, and suppleness… Exercise of the day: Liz worked over three sets of tramlines across the diagonal placed at seven metre intervals outwards from X Objective: Latitudinal stretch, accuracy of line, suppleness… Ride serpentines, starting with the outside pair of tramlines, then adding the centre pair. Mix it up by […] Read Article Comments Off

Remembering Poesie – Great Mare!

Let us celebrate one of the greatest mares in modern dressage breeding history - Poesie. But her success and the success of the 'P' line is also the story of one of the great visionaries of the breeding world, Dr Jürgen Müller. Read Article Comments Off

Top tip – winning young horse classes

March 14th, 2021
Judge (and former Grand Prix dressage competitor) Dietrich Plewa talks getting the points in Young Horse classes at a Seminar at the Bundeschampionat in Warendorf: “It is very important to find the right speed for each horse.” Hanoverian, Horatio by Hochadel out of a Matcho mare, ridden by Dorothee Schneider, one of those consummate German […] Read Article Comments Off

George Morris – Exercise of the day

March 13th, 2021
George tells his riders: “We want circles after every jump to collect the horse.” “Circles then over the log, circle, over the plank, circle, over the vertical, half circle right, transition to trot, transition to walk, halt, rein back.” And woe betide the rider who thinks he or she can jump the last jump, relax […] Read Article Comments Off

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