When training our horses, it becomes extremely easy to stick to the elements of training you find easy or safe. For example, constantly working within the arena because you feel like it is a [...]

So since my last blog so much has happened. We are all being challenged in our strength and resolve but us horse riders have that in bucket fulls! Before lock down me and Elliott went to several [...]

Dressage Movement – ‘Simple change of leg Through Trot’ The ‘simple change of leg through trot’ often gets confused with the ‘simple change’ and it’s understandable why.  The two do [...]

Working Trot, Medium Walk transition (one horses length) and proceed to Working Trot So I asked you to view the short video on the Facebook page showing this movement: Working Trot, Medium Walk [...]

Why not a 10?  As you might be aware I wear many ‘hats’ in this Dressage industry and one of them is a British Dressage List 2 Judge.  I have been judging for over 21 years and during this time I [...]

Left & Right Canter Transitions  So I asked you to watch the 2 videos on the EquiTest Facebook page which showed 2 canter transitions in a test, one to the left and one to the right.  I then [...]

There always comes a point when you ask yourself ‘when should I move up to Preliminary level’ in dressage? Are you the kind of person who doesn’t think twice about having a go at a British [...]

In order for us to not only care for the body of the equine athlete, but also to be able to train it and assist it to perform at its best, we first need to have a good knowledge and understanding [...]

Hi my name’s Keeley Squires and I am a grade 4 para dressage rider and also compete at able bodied dressage. I was born with a condition called spina bifida which affects your spinal cord, [...]

Over the years physiotherapy for the equine athlete has become more popular, and because we learn more as owners and ask our horses to achieve greater things, the importance of physiotherapy has [...]