Posted on September 27th, 2011
Without help on the ground to move poles, and adjust fences, jumping a young horse on your own is tricky. Last weekend was Dustry’s 2nd jumping lesson and after a week of working very hard on his canter and flatwork I was really looking forward to it. We started off with the usual flatwork exercises [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2011
Well after months and months of lessons and home work I finally decided it was time to face the music and take Dustry to his first competition to see how he reacted! Very local to me is a lovely venue called Cholderton Equestrian Centre and they run unaff’ and affiliated dressage and showjumping. I entered [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2011
Over the last few weeks we have been working in our lessons on getting Dustry to reach down and stretch when he goes over trot poles. This is helping him to use his back and also become more active behind in order to make the distance, and clean foot falls between the poles. Dustry’s natural reaction when [...]
