Today we competed in our first "Official Competitive" show. We started with the 1.2. Started off well, then as soon as we turned right at C, he started shaking his head due to the flies (never shown in Australia during fly season so lesson learnt. Use a LOT of fly spray cause the little am...

Thank you AmityBee! Think I will try this exercise tonight, looks really interesting

I like the sound of the shoulder in/haunches in exercise.. but neither me or my horse have ridden haunches in before. When is this usually introduced? I've only ever ridden shoulder-fore on straight lines, at the end of our lesson yesterday she said I could also continue to do it around the corners,...

Hey all! Just came back from my second lesson with my new trainer and it's becoming apparent we need to work a LOT on our lateral suppleness. He's starting to look great on straight lines, but as soon as I ask for any bend (corners, loops, serpentines etc) he loses impulsion and his head comes up th...

Yes I read that article when it was posted thanks I guess I'm just looking for more of a "through the riders eyes" explanation and not a birds eye view diagram. It's OK though

I've always ridden the loops with bend to the leading leg just not sure on how much! I've read discussions about which way the horse should be bent/flexed. As I'm a training level rider, now almost schooling all elements of first... What is the correct way to ride the loop to X? One old thread I rea...

I am looking at starting work on the counter canter as there is a loop to X in Novice 2.3 here (guessing you guys also have one in First 3?). I've just been researching the placement of the horse's body as I can't remember reading anything on this in this thread. The advice I have found is the posit...

Well I had my first lesson a couple of weeks ago which went extremely well. Our issues are forward and roundness. Due to a pony in the round yard we had zero problems with forward in the lesson (my usually very laid back tb actually started playing up, jigging, snorting etc). Pony went away and he w...