Dressage – Page 83 – The Horse Magazine

Martina Hannöver – Working with young horses: The four year old

December 3rd, 2014
Jim and Emmie Schmul’s new property is the perfect setting for an exhilarating clinic with Martina Hannöver. Martina is on her second visit to Australia, and has found that her relaxed, breezy lots of fun style goes down well with the locals. However, unlike some of our visitors she does not lower her standards to […] Read Article Comments Off

Martina Hannöver Downunder

It was amazing to see the difference in the horses after a just a few days, and mostly it seems to come from a critical couple of centimetres in the length of the neck, but really it is not the neck itself that is important, it is what the neck shows us about the rest of the body... Read Article Comments Off

Martina Hannöver – The Walk is Not a Rest…

The young Rubinsteins don’t usually show much of a trot, but this one can stretch a bit even at this stage, and for a baby, he has such lovely natural balance... Read Article Comments Off

Miguel Tavora – Going into collection laterally… Part 2

I start again at walk by doing a small circle around the inside leg in the shoulder-in position. When I feel the horse round, supple, forward and on the bit, I stop the action of my inside leg (it stays in the same place on ‘stand by’) and I increase the action of my outside leg in order to bring his hindquarters in... Read Article Comments Off

Rafael Soto – Training in hand…

Rafael Soto is a fascinating guy. One of the stars of the Royal School of Andalusian Equestrian Art in Jerez, he is also a top competitive rider on the international dressage stage, and will be a key member in the Spanish Dressage Team at the World Championships in his home town later this year... Read Article Comments Off

Rozzie Ryan talks about taking Jive Magic into the FEI ranks

Pretty much they tell you how quickly you can train them. I’m pretty pleased with the way he is going. He is six and a half now, and he doesn’t feel stressed or stretched in any way. We are working on the piaffe and passage... Read Article Comments Off

Shannon Tonkin takes a lesson with Bimbo Peilicke

Siegfried ‘Bimbo’ Peilicke is a legend in Germany – he is a trainer’s trainer, a man with a legendary eye and the expertise that comes from having produced scores of FEI dressage horses. In Australia, we are lucky that the then twenty-one year Glennis Scott struck up such a warm friendship with Bimbo in the […] Read Article Comments Off

Sjef Janssen – An interview

My equestrian career started when I was twenty eight years old, married, and on my way to the tennis court several times a week, I took my little daughter with me and we would pass a meadow, and there was a foal in it. She liked that foal, so stupid as I was, I decided to buy it... Read Article Comments Off

Sjef Janssen – Explains his training system

Even with very simple stuff - make a decent transition, make the horses give in, make the horse go over the back, reaction to the actions of the aids - four or five simple things, and 99 out of 100, cannot do it... Read Article Comments Off

Sjef Janssen – talks about the aids

Sjef Janssen came to horses relatively late in life, but lost no time in first carving a career for himself as an international Grand Prix competitor, then, with his partner, Anky van Grunsven, establishing himself as one of the world’s great dressage trainers. Chris Hector took time out to chat with Sjef – […] Read Article 1 Comment »