horsemagazine – Page 112 – The Horse Magazine

Martina Hannöver – Step by step

December 3rd, 2014
I teach my horses to stand square all the time. Even if I am tightening up the girth, or I have stopped to talk to somebody. I am always trying to train the horse so that it knows that under the rider it always has to stand on all four legs every time I make a halt... Read Article Comments Off

Martina Hannöver – All about the half pass

All Martina Hannöver’s horses have lovely half passes, so it is no surprise to find that while she was working under the late Herbert Rehbein at Grönwholdhof, he declared that she was so good at it that she could ‘train a cow’ to half pass… What is important about training a horse to half pass? […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Martina Hannöver – training the more advanced horse

Older means more experienced, it also means craftier -and 'Charlie' has a whole bag of tricks to keep the rider under his control, but Martina is quick to spot the problem... Read Article Comments Off

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

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

Otto Becker – Facing his biggest jump

German showjumping ace Otto Becker has taken on one of Germany’s toughest jobs – coach of the showjumping team at a time of turmoil and crisis! When he decided it was time to retire his great showjumping horse, Cento – still at the top at the age of 17 – Otto Becker started thinking about […] Read Article Comments Off

Opening up the French Studbook

Once the most closed of the European studbooks, now the French horse is a cosmopolitan mix from all over Europe... Read Article Comments Off

The Two Great Thoroughbred Performance lines…

…Precipitation and Bay Ronald When we look at the antecedents of the modern Sporthorse, there are two names that crop up over and over again, the two Thoroughbreds, Precipitation and Bay Ronald. Precipitation Precipitation has had an enormous influence not just on jumping breeding but also on dressage mainly through his son, the French Thoroughbred, […] Read Article 1 Comment »