horsemagazine – Page 118 – The Horse Magazine

The Principles of Horsemanship: Part 4 – Exclusivity Principles

December 3rd, 2014
When you communicate to horses (or men!), you have to issue one command at a time otherwise both commands will result in lowered responses... Read Article Comments Off

The Principles of Horsemanship: Part 3 – Pavlov’s Principle

Pavlov’s principle is all about training the horse to operate from light aids, including seat, weight and positional cues... Read Article Comments Off

Principles of Horse Training with Andrew McLean

All equestrian work, whether it is in hand or in any discipline under saddle rests upon sound basics of stop and go. Dressage represents the most sophisticated development of stop and go and the quality of the training of these basic responses is the foundation for a relaxed, problem-free horse... Read Article Comments Off

Hobe Bernhard – In the heart of Holstein…

December 1st, 2014
Breeding on the Bernhard farm had started with heavy horses, but after the Second World War, the attention turned to horses for the growing market of jumping competitors, but always as part of the overall farm economy. Hobe has five mares of his own, and takes care of another ten for their owners. He uses […] Read Article Comments Off

The Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg-International (OS)

November 25th, 2014
The name is so long - but we can just call it Oldenburg Jumping, the brain child of jumping wheeler and dealer, Paul Schockemöhle... Read Article Comments Off

Rod and Jess Brown – Forward to the future

November 21st, 2014
Rod Brown has long been an influential player on the Australian showjumping scene. As a rider, he captained the Australian Showjumping Team to New Zealand in 1988 and he rode Slinky at the Seoul Olympics in 1998. Rod was a member of Australian Team won the Nations Cup at Kiskunhalis Hungary in 1991 on Spectre […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Cassini I, one of Holstein’s success stories

Cassini I, one of the most successful Holsteiner stallions, has died this month, aged 26. The Capitol I Caletto II-son, bred by Johann Hermann Claussen, Neuenkirchen, was found dead in his box. The grey had spent the day before with no evidence of any disease in his paddock in Borgsum / Foehr. Cassini was highly […] Read Article 2 Comments »

Christoph Hess meets Joann Formosa

November 20th, 2014
Dressage judge and educator Christoph Hess returned to the 2013 Melbourne International Three Day Event to be President of the Ground Jury but he also conducted one of his popular masterclasses. THM was there to witness one special interaction: Going into the latest version of the Christoph Hess travelling masterclass, I must confess I […] Read Article 1 Comment »

Jessica Manson & Christine Bates – A teacher and student case study, Part 2

November 17th, 2014
In the first part of the series Jess and Christine told us how they worked on Legal Star’s dressage and the tricks they used to create event atmosphere at home to prepare for next competition. Now the time has come; it is the weekend of the Melbourne International Horse Trials and THM catches up again […] Read Article Comments Off

Jessica Manson & Christine Bates – A teacher and student case study, Part 1

Meet Jessica Manson – the young eventer who has been steadily moving up the ranks. First a spot on the 2010 Young Rider Trans Tasman team, only two years later a fourth place in the 2012 CCI 4 Star in Adelaide, then really making herself known with second place at this year’s Sydney CCI 3 […] Read Article 1 Comment »