This is the first in a series of four training articles on ‘Developing paces and expression’ based on a lecture demo given by Lancashire-based FEI 5* Dressage judge Clive Halsall in Sussex last November at the invitation of Youth Selector and Kent-based trainer Leanne Wall. His audience was composed of judges, trainers and riders.
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Getting into the heads and bodies of three different horses has brought Tania Grantham competition success on the national stage. The skills acquired on her journey to grand prix, particularly her artful pole work, have also established her as a successful trainer
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NLP consultant and dressage coach Wendy Jago explores the ‘we’ in all rewarding equestrian relationships. Look out for the next in Out and About’s continuing The Horse That Made Me series that will feature rider and trainer Tania Grantham.
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If you have ever hugged a horse and received comfort you have felt the spiritual connection that can exist between human and equine. We need to be receptive to tune into the horse’s mind and body when we ride. Mary-Anne Horn, a List 1 able-bodied judge and an FEI para judge, believes we can forget the magic ingredient of ‘feel’ as we strive for achievement.
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TWO MINDS and two bodies enter the dressage arena to produce a test. Working as a co-operative unit they will perform to the best of their ability but if there is a problem, when is retiring the best option?
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THIS YEAR’S WINTER REGIONALS ran only last month but as riders complete their qualifications for the next big shows in their competition calendar, it’s a good time to study and start to practise the art of good Ring Craft.
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Emma Mansfield has worked with horses all her career but now as Sparsholt College Events Organiser, a large part of her job is working with people. Two horses have made her a successful dressage rider and a popular show organiser — many more have made her a philosopher.
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Difficult, opinionated Pasoa was a passport to five years’ competing at grand prix and grand prix special between at the most prestigious venues across Europe. She established Nikki Barker as one of Britain’s top professional riders and trainers
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The Horse That Made Vicki Thompson Winfield. Vicki’s first grand prix partner, Enfant, took her to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and he is the one who put her name in the history books.
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Amy Stovold first hit the headlines winning the Medium Southern Regional Championships riding show-stopper stallion Lenski at Oldencraig in 2004. Lenski was certainly a learning curve, but the horse that got her onto BD’s World Class Development Programme and to the London International Horse Show at Olympia was MacBrian.
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“A little horse for my mum to have some fun with”, chosen from a video sent over from Denmark, was the beginning of an epic journey to an Aachen CHIO. That was where Claire Knowles rode a fire-breathing Pendragon of Independence.
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“I would probably say Jazz was the horse that made me,” says Sarah Williams. “She taught me the fundamental importance of riding a horse connected because if I could then get her supple and working through the body, I could train her.”
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