{"id":41329,"date":"2018-05-25T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T04:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=41329"},"modified":"2021-12-15T16:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:12:50","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-ride-valegro-an-interview-with-vanessa-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2018\/05\/what-is-it-like-to-ride-valegro-an-interview-with-vanessa-way\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it like to ride Valegro? An interview with Vanessa Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vanessa works in Don Archie, under the watchful eye of Carl Hester (photo – Libby Law)<\/em><\/p>\n

Rebecca Ashton talks to Grand Prix dressage rider, and trainer, Vanessa Way – about judging young horse classes – and training with Carl and Charlotte<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Vanessa Way is one of those lucky individuals who has been able to spend quite a bit of time working closely with Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin. I say lucky, but really it was through hard work and a determined spirit that she managed to find herself a place with the dynamic duo. Although eventing was her first passion, dressage has proved quite addictive for the charismatic Kiwi. Vanessa is born, bred and based in New Zealand and is determined to not only improve herself but the sport is her homeland.<\/p>\n

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Photo – Rebecca Ashton<\/em><\/p>\n

I caught up with Vanessa at the Sydney CDI where she was the riding judge for the young horses. I talked to her about her approach, what it\u2019s like behind the scenes at Carl and Charlotte\u2019s yard and the one question I know you want asked\u2026 what is it like to ride Valegro?<\/p>\n

What did you think of the young horses in the finals today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

To be fair, I was really impressed; impressed with the horses, the quality, the presentation of them, it was a total class act.<\/p>\n

Any standouts?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rebecca and Billionaire –\u00a0Photo – Rebecca Ashton<\/em><\/p>\n

I loved the palomino of course (Vanessa awarded the six-year-old Karizmah Billionaire ridden by Danni Walliss 9.5!).<\/p>\n

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But there were so many lovely moments. When I look back, my first four-year-old, the big horse (Valhalla I ridden by Elliot Patterson), I really liked him. He had a super, even contact. I haven\u2019t been a riding judge before, and I think I was a bit daunted, the size of the canter and I hadn\u2019t ridden all day. I might look 32 but I\u2019m actually not, and to be fair to the horse, I was probably a bit nervous. I think if I could go back on my day and alter anything, I would probably alter his rideability score. As a horse, he was very evenly produced; beautiful in the contact. That would be my correction perhaps. I don\u2019t think it would have affected the total outcome.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very interesting, you just about felt that the four-year-olds were easier than the older ones, but whether that\u2019s because by that time they’re up, and the riders mould them, is likely as well.<\/p>\n

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Escala RW. The Escolar mare was awarded a 9 for riding by Vanessa and won the<\/em>
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The stallion\u00a0Bluefields Dankeschon (Desperados)\u00a0ridden by Lisa Janke was awarded a 9 for ridability by Vanessa and won the Five-Year-Old Final at the Sydney CDI.\u00a0Photo – Rebecca Ashton<\/em><\/p>\n

Did you feel any of them were perhaps a bit over organised or over managed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

More so as I went up the grades. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time trying to develop as a rider and a trainer and my job at Mr Hester\u2019s was riding the young horses, and in exchange for riding and competing and training, he always gave me good rides on the Grand Prix horses and I had to retrain my own ideas on Grand Prix, which I would have to honestly say were not great. So I\u2019ve spent a long time being really honest about what you do. When you watch Carl and Charlotte, they do ride with a far lighter contact, so I think that we do try to help horses too much, so that\u2019s what I\u2019ve worked really hard on as a rider, and I go back every year and I ride all their horses and it\u2019s still something that I\u2019m fine tuning; how light those horses over there really are, and how reactive they are to the leg.<\/p>\n

more about Carl’s training methods next<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photo – Roslyn Neave<\/em><\/p>\n

I know you can<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>t explain their whole training method in five minutes but what<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>s the process for getting their horses that light?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>I think the number one thing, and people giggle sometimes when they watch me train, but we go into a very forward seat and do a lot of reactions.<\/p>\n

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Carl and Uthopia at home Pics. Kit houghton<\/em><\/p>\n

I think you\u2019ve got to get the horse balanced and you\u2019ve got to get the engine quick. That\u2019s what Carl always says. First of all we\u2019ve got to get the horse forward off the leg. You\u2019ve got to remember that for the horse to be on the bit, it\u2019s because it trusts the hand and you ride it forward and catch the energy gently in your hand and you communicate it back.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s the big thing for me; response to the leg and when the horse is genuinely forward, you\u2019re catching the energy, you\u2019re not pulling back, the horse trusts your hand and it bounces up off the bit.<\/p>\n

I think maybe riders try too hard to create a frame, but at the end of the day, the horse creates the frame through correct training.<\/p>\n

So would you then say, if you<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>re getting the reaction from your leg but then the horse is just sitting there in your hand from the energy, you<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>ve got to play with the lateral work and forward and back?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Absolutely and Charlotte used to correct me because she used to say if I didn\u2019t move my fingers she would chop them off. The thing is with your hand, it\u2019s the communication. The horse\u2019s mouth is like your own. I believe if you have a numb hand you have a numb horse. You want a chewy, light feeling rather than taking a hold. We don\u2019t ride with strength, we don\u2019t ride with hardness. It\u2019s like taking a two year old child for a walk. It\u2019s a nice feeling.<\/p>\n

I think the bridle is still the most misunderstood thing. I think today there were some horses that didn\u2019t trust the bridle enough and they were a bit light. Those ones we want to push from the hindleg and feel that they can take my hand and are positive. We did have a couple of horses like that, where I was trying to get them to trust my hand and take it and not hide behind it because you still need to feel the horse\u2019s hind legs in your hand in the most beautiful way.<\/p>\n

The ones that are heavy need to take more weight in the hind legs so always if it\u2019s on the front, it\u2019s not on the hind legs. There were a couple I kept throwing the rein at because I\u2019m not going to hold them. They have to look after themselves.<\/p>\n

more training tips follow<\/em><\/p>\n

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If a horse came to you for training like that, what would be your longer term strategy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>It depends on the age group. We\u2019re very forward on the young horses. We ride with very short stirrups. Carl always says if your heels aren\u2019t down your seat\u2019s not down. So yes with the young ones we\u2019re very forward and off their backs. We were often in jump saddles because we don\u2019t want them on the hand, we want them to react forward and we want to allow the reaction so they\u2019re not getting hit in the mouth or hit in the back because if you\u2019re behind the movement, that\u2019s exactly the same as hanging on their front. So if you\u2019re going to react a horse off your leg, you can\u2019t catch them in the back or the mouth. Both those things are equally as bad as each other.<\/p>\n

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So it\u2019s very forward. People think I\u2019m an unusual trainer but I\u2019m not, I\u2019ve just had brilliant trainers. The first one was Michael Putz who trained all the bereiters. He never rode to a high level but he was always about a perfectly balanced, correct horse.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got an amazing friend and mentor in Carl. I\u2019ve been going there for 12 years and it\u2019s absolutely perfection in every way and it\u2019s never unfair or unjust. Ever. I can put my hand on my heart and say I\u2019ve never seen anything that isn\u2019t absolutely amazing training. He\u2019s an inspiration in every walk of life. We\u2019re very similar in how we believe horses should go.<\/p>\n

If you haven<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>t been there for a while, what<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>s the thing that always stands out when you get back there?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I go every year and the main thing I look at when I go is the rein; have you genuinely got the horses in self carriage? Are they really under your seat? Are they really in front of your aids? I keep saying, the older I get, it keeps going back to the Training Scale. You cannot fault it. We can kid ourselves, but if there\u2019s anything in that Training Scale: straightness, contact, you need to address that and be 100% genuine about it. I remember years ago, I was an eventer who went to dressage and I didn\u2019t do it well at all, I didn\u2019t really know, but I remember trainers in the past would say you need to come out exhausted, but I can now say that\u2019s 100% bollocks.<\/p>\n

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I know now, when I\u2019m riding well I\u2019m more of an artist, just balancing my horse and I\u2019m doing far less so I don\u2019t ride with strength at all in my legs, I try to absorb it in my core as best I can. I\u2019m obviously not Charlotte! But it\u2019s all about riding with feel. What I concentrate on is the art.<\/p>\n

I noticed when you rode your back is soft. You don<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>t drive the horse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again, that\u2019s pushing their backs away and that\u2019s why we put the young horses in jump saddles, because you forget the horse has to round its back like a spider and then you tilt the balance around.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I think sometimes when some riders think uphill, and they actually hollow the horse\u2019s back. No. It\u2019s relative collection. So again, when the riders are behind them, it\u2019s like putting a human on your shoulders and them leaning back. You\u2019re now dragging the weight. It\u2019s like what Carl says heels down, it\u2019s allowing the horse\u2019s back up.<\/p>\n

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Watch Charlotte ride and if anything you would say she\u2019s more in a forward seat than she\u2019s ever back. She\u2019s never behind the movement. That would be worse because as soon as you\u2019re behind, you\u2019re behind in the bridle and you\u2019re behind in your body. I\u2019m definitely not in their league, but I\u2019m really motivated and keep going there so I can ride the best I can.<\/p>\n

How long do you go over for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did a year at one point. I went another time and Mr Hester gave me an amazing opportunity to compete his Inter 1 horses. I\u2019ve stayed five or six months, but I have to be careful with my team at home. I\u2019m really lucky. My best friend Abbie Deken lives next door and she\u2019s a Grand Prix rider and I\u2019ve got amazing pupils. It\u2019s now down to a six week period.<\/p>\n

So when you come back home and you have to remember everything you<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>ve learnt and maintain your standard, how do you go about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I video a lot. Abbie and I work together on a daily basis. I have good young riders and my teaching helps me the most. I teach about 50-60 lessons a week because I\u2019m self funded. Every time I teach it\u2019s a mental correction to me so I\u2019m getting repeats whether I\u2019m teaching an amateur or whether I\u2019m teaching Grand Prix. I ride the horses from the ground. Carl believes that you cannot teach what you haven\u2019t taught a horse. I\u2019ve taught several horses to Grand Prix now, and every one of them got better because I got better. Now it\u2019s far easier, and it\u2019s easier for the horses because I\u2019m clearer in what I ask.<\/p>\n

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Back home in New Zealand – Libby Law pic<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m very much into making it feel good for the horses. My horses all play a little bit with piaffe by five, but it\u2019s definitely a play. But by the time it\u2019s seven it\u2019s very piaffe and my horses would never say no because there\u2019s never a conflict. There\u2019s never a reason to say no.<\/p>\n

Do you do other cross training with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Absolutely. When I was at Carl\u2019s we only ever did four days and I totally follow his programme. We go to the beach and the girls hack them up the hills. They go every day for a hack before they go into the arena and all of them go up the road with cars and trucks. Carl laughed because we rode along the road to the beach and he thought he was going to die but no, my horses are taught to cope\u2026.but then I am an ex eventer!<\/p>\n

So you<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>re crazy. Haha. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I am crazy and Abbie hates it.<\/p>\n

When did you switch from eventing to dressage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh it was quite a long time ago. I was quite successful to three-star, but I had a terrible rotational fall in 1998 and my horse broke his neck and I broke my back in five places. I had a year off to mend and if you haven\u2019t noticed, I\u2019m a real softy, I\u2019m not a tough trainer, it\u2019s not me.<\/p>\n

I just didn\u2019t love eventing anymore. I felt a lot of guilt. Losing a horse like that was the worst thing. I was a crap show jumper so I just fell into dressage.<\/p>\n

Then the journey began and I trained my first one to Grand Prix, and I trained with different trainers.<\/p>\n

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Vanessa and NSC Pronto (by VDL Prestige), New Zealand Horse of the Year 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

more on trainers comes next<\/em><\/p>\n

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How did you pick your trainers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve helped eventers my whole career up to Olympic and World Games level and basically I\u2019m very good friends with Vaughn Jefferis and I knew Carl through Vaughn. I\u2019ve always loved him. I was a bit of a guinea pig. He offered me Charlotte\u2019s job and that was going to happen, but then life changed.<\/p>\n

So I trained with Harry Boldt and he was incredible. I saw Harry do great things with the Australian eventers, and I thought hold on, he\u2019s an Olympic medalist and he lives in Perth. That\u2019s a lot easier than trying to get Michael Putz from Germany. He\u2019s also got a lot more experience at Grand Prix. Harry was absolutely great to teach me how to ride at Grand Prix. I went from 51% to 66% thanks to him.<\/p>\n

Then I thought I needed more so I went backwards and forwards with Carl. He said if I got my qualification for the Olympics, I could go over there and that was my absolute breakthrough as a rider\u2026going and living with him for a year and he gave me a team of horses and he mentored me.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d ride my horse and I wouldn\u2019t let any of the others ride him, and Carl couldn\u2019t understand because I was over there to go to the Olympics but no, I was there to improve. The Olympics would have been a bonus, but my aim was to be a better rider.<\/p>\n

Then he put me on the B grade Grand Prix horses that Charlotte thought weren\u2019t that great, but\u00a0I thought they were great. I learnt feel from that and I could mimic that back to my horses. In exchange I had the young horses, and that was my forte in the barn because Carl couldn\u2019t find people to ride them. I\u2019m very black and white. Pressure on, but then take it off and reward. I always think a horse wants to give you the right reaction. When the pressure is on, you have to keep it on until you get the right reaction. You do have to be brave. Katie Bailey was also in the barn and I always said she was fearless. We did have to ride some very sharp, young horses, but once I\u2019m on, I\u2019m on.<\/p>\n

I learnt amazing skills. For example, sharp horses need a feel. You couldn\u2019t ride them long. You\u2019d be off in five seconds! I remember the first one doing 360s backwards. Charlotte said keep the bit up in its mouth or else you\u2019re going to be very much on the ground. I learnt a positive pull. You couldn\u2019t stretch some of those sharp ones. You\u2019d get the trust and get the feel. So I learnt.<\/p>\n

Why is Charlotte so good?<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019s everything, I suppose. She\u2019s good because of Carl, obviously, she\u2019s had the best horse and the best trainer, but she\u2019s brilliant anyway because she\u2019s got an exceptional natural feel to collection, she\u2019s mentally tough, she\u2019s a competitor. She\u2019s mentally so strong.<\/p>\n

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I remember asking her once if she ever got nervous and she looked at me, \u201cWhy the hell would I do that? Vanessa, we do the same stuff everyday in a 20×60, what is there to be nervous about?\u201d Good point! Her brain is just not wired like that.<\/p>\n

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And you can\u2019t forget, Carl is the most incredible mentor. They are the yin and the yang together. Carl loves life so much he could easily take a back seat but Charlotte\u2019s like, \u201cGranddad, get in that saddle.\u201d She keeps him going, keeps him alive. She drives him in a great way. They are the perfect mix. She\u2019d ride them 25 times a day and Carl\u2019s like, no.<\/p>\n

I was having a great time over there riding a lot of Carl\u2019s horses like Nip Tuck and Charlotte was like, \u201cNessy, I\u2019m really sorry but I\u2019m going to have to kick you off it today because Carl\u2019s got to get on the horse. He\u2019s got Europeans next week!\u201d<\/p>\n

Carl is so kind though. What other trainer would let you ride their horses? He is the most magic person.<\/p>\n

what it’s like to ride Valegro is next<\/em><\/p>\n

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So you<\/strong>\u2019<\/strong>ve ridden all the horses, \u00a0what are<\/strong>\u00a0Nip Tuck and Valegro like to ride?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nip Tuck is very sensitive. He\u2019s a bit long in the back so you\u2019ve got to keep him connected. He\u2019s very light and you can\u2019t ride too fast because he\u2019ll get out of balance. But he\u2019s super obedient, super trained, very sensitive and he is spooky. Shies all the time past C. Everyday. They\u2019ve done the most incredible job. To see the journey from a five-year-old right through is amazing.<\/p>\n

Carl wants to show what his training can do. We can\u2019t get scores like that because we don\u2019t ride like that. I keep dreaming!<\/p>\n

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Valegro is unbelievable. It\u2019s got the power, it\u2019s got the reactions, it\u2019s got the sensitivity. Carl says the day it was born it was reactive. It\u2019s a total credit to Charlotte, she\u2019s done an incredible job. She keeps the horse always in front of her leg. It\u2019s got so many gears in it. I remember I was flying around on him thinking I was amazing and Charlotte\u2019s like, \u201cThat\u2019s nothing.\u201d Touch a few more buttons and you\u2019re up and literally my cheeks were on the tail. It\u2019s amazing. The power they ride over there, it\u2019s not speed, it\u2019s impulsion. Real impulsion. The horse is so reactive. That one is beyond words to ride. It\u2019s the dream.”<\/p>\n

I look at Charlotte and she had several horses to ride before she rode Grand Prix, she trains with the best trainer in the world. You\u2019re not just getting one repeat, you\u2019re getting ten repeats a day so by the end of the week..<\/p>\n

There\u2019s absolutely science behind it. You\u2019re delusional if you think it\u2019s a dream. It\u2019s a full package that\u2019s made that happen. Carl was definitely the key to that package. He didn\u2019t have to keep that horse. He saw a vision of a team and that\u2019s what I love about him. That\u2019s his nature with everything.<\/p>\n

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Competing in New Zealand with NRM Andreas, at Level 8<\/em><\/p>\n

We have a great rapport. He gives me confidence and has given me self belief.You\u2019re from New Zealand so when you go to Europe, you\u2019re nothing. We were always brought up to not have an ego, so to have someone say you\u2019ve got something that they believe in is like, \u201cReally?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Working at home with her Inter I level horse – NRM Arion by Anamour<\/em><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m proud of our Kiwi riders. I really believe our training in New Zealand is matching you guys. I\u2019m proud of my fellow riders. A lot of us top riders also work together all quite happily. We are very much on the same page. We don\u2019t have egos. I suppose we\u2019re not dealing with money and most of us own our own horses so we don\u2019t have to fight for owners.<\/p>\n

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Photo – Libby Law<\/em><\/p>\n

Stable management. What have you learnt about that from Carl and Charlotte?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oh it\u2019s natural. Their horses are so happy. They\u2019ve got heat lamps we use in the winter and they\u2019ve got an amazing physio who does a lot of work on the horses. We do a lot of hand walking. Going into the Olympics with medal potential horses, they were hand grazed all the time. I spent more time with Valegro than Charlotte because I was the tether! When they\u2019re not under so much pressure, the horses go into little paddocks for a couple of hours, however, if those horses run, we run. That was a little bit of a motto. If they go fast, we go faster to bring them in. They\u2019re in and out all the time. The young horses live in groups of three or four in ginormous paddocks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an expert barn but they are treated so kindly. Every Sunday Mr Hester sneaks down and takes a treat for every horse in the barn. He\u2019s just the sweetest man. And you\u2019re in a barn that is producing medals and there is no stress. Everyone is happy. That\u2019s not normal in some barns!<\/p>\n

Advice to young riders?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be in a hurry to win. The worst thing for young riders is to get an ego. So many want to go out and buy a Grand Prix horse. The only way you’re going to do it is time. Give yourself so much time and be genuine to yourself. It\u2019s not about winning and losing, it\u2019s about being the best rider you can be. Obviously getting a good school master helps but you have to learn to be patient, get a good seat, don\u2019t be in a hurry to pull a horse together for a ribbon. Learn classically and don\u2019t specialise too early. You watch Carl and Charlotte, they can jump with the best of them, they know how to use a lower leg. You look at some dressage riders, that\u2019s why they sit behind the horse, they haven\u2019t learnt to use their stirrup as a cushion so they can\u2019t do half sitting\/ half standing, they end up pinching with their heels and they all ride with their stirrups too long. No weight through the lower leg? That\u2019s rubbish because your weight has to be absorbed through the heel, hip up, core, head. Be way more pedantic with your own riding. Learn to ride rather than just trying to win ribbons.<\/p>\n

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Photo – Rebecca Ashton<\/em><\/p>\n

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