Category: Training

Let us help you remember your dressage test with a selection of tips from four top dressage riders; Gareth Hughes, Sophie Wells, Natasha Baker and Lara Edwards! There is no bigger frustration than wondering about the extra marks you may have earned if you’d remembered your dressage test! Maybe it was a moment you forgot the next movement or the fear of not being able to remember in the first place that’s losing you valuable marks and hindering progress. In this article, we’ve teamed up with some of the industries leading dressage riders…

Leg yield is a basic lateral movement we teach a horse. Teaching the horse to leg yield offers many benefits and provides a good foundation for other more advanced movements. A true leg yield is hard to perform if you don’t know what to feel for when riding. It can be initially taught in hand to help the horse understand what is being asked of them. This is also a good time to assess how easy the horse finds the movement as this will help to give a rough guide…

Winter Showing Tips This month Black Country Saddles sponsored show rider and producer Jayne Ross gives us some winter showing tips for the show ring. From training at home to perfecting your turnout Jayne provides some top advice to help you conquer some common problems. Well known in the showing world, Jayne has ridden and trained many top show horses over the years winning all major titles including five supreme championships at the Horse of the Year Show. Top Tips Is your horse a little slow off the leg? Try using…

5 Tips on Dressage from Stephen Hayes Dressage 1. First off ‘Dressage’ is just a really big fancy name for training, Whether you show jump, event, hunt or even happy hack, you need fundamental training skills in order to progress your horse mentally and physically in whatever discipline your in. 2. Tip two is break dressage training up into small sections, don’t think of certain exercises as one whole piece, for example, a simple leg yield, make sure you have a soft feeling down both reins, he’s reacting from both…

Horse Performance Improvement Tips with expert trainer, Victoria Bax Here, we catch up with top eventer and ex-racehorse trainer Victoria Bax, as she stops in-between her busy schedule to give our readers her top tips for horse performance improvement. Horse Performance Improvement Tips 1) I spend a short period working them only long and low, on the flat to help stretch tight muscles and remind them of their relaxed way of going. Even when running through dressage tests at home, working the horses in this soft lower frame is beneficial.…

5 ways to prepare yourself for the first dressage show of the season with Stephen Hayes Here, Everything Horse sponsored dressage rider Stephen Hayes gives his top five tips to help prepare yourself for the first dressage show of the season. Summer is approaching which means it’s time to start to dust off your show boots, bring out your horses travel boots from the bottom of your tack locker, and make a few adjustments to your now slightly tighter show jacket! Yes, that’s right, its time to go down that centre line and…

Cross country tips for every horse and rider Regular 4* event rider, Kevin McNab is known for his magic hands – here he provides his top tips on achieving cross country success. You may also like Suzanne AshtonSuzanne Ashton, Founder of Everything Horse (Est, 2012), has a BA Hons in Marketing Management and a Diploma in Equine Science. Suzanne has ridden and owned horses all her life and has twelve years of experience in marketing, writing, design, SEO, and website creation.

Here we’ve teamed up with British Eventing legend Mary King, for her top training tips and riding advice to help you prepare for the season ahead. Mary’s 10 Top Tips Mary understands the importance of good forage and feeds High Fibre HorseHage to her team of event horses. Said Mary “I find that HorseHage offers many benefits compared to hay or ordinary haylage – it’s dust-free which is vital for maintaining a healthy respiratory tract and preventing conditions such as RAO (Recurrent Airway Obstruction). This is especially important when your…