To avoid going completely stir-crazy we will be offering suggestions over the next days and weeks of things to help you stay occupied and satisfy your horse cravings while in isolation.
Binge on horse movies!
Equus Horse Channel offers over 100 horse movies for kids and grownup in categories such as Training, Western, Historical, Therapy, Drama, Action, and Fictional. A subscription is required: $7.99 (USD) per month or $79.99 / year, but the first week is free and you can also rent on demand. Plus you can watch all the cool trailers you want for free!
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Your fave riders are coming to the rescue with free training videos! Here’s one by Beezie Madden on leg-yielding:
And rider position:
And if you can’t get near your horse right now – tack cleaning:
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Train with the pros.
WeHorse Training Videos is an online riding platform with over 180 videos from 25 of the top trainers in the world such as Peggy Cummings, Ingrid Klimke and Chris Bartle covering topics such as dressage, groundwork training, show jumping, horsemanship, rider fitness, and much more.
€14.90 / month unlimited access (yearly sub)
€24.90 / month unlimited access (monthly)
Lots of free previews for browsing though!
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Equestrian Masterclass Memberships – half price!
You can get 50% off “quarantine-friendly’ Equestrian Masterclass Memberships right now.
Have access to 70 in-depth video lessons from world-class trainers. Tik Maynard, Missy Clark, Anne Kursinski, Ian Millar and more; each masterclass contains a comprehensive set of video lessons and accompanying workbook to reference drills and exercises. Just $99/year.
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Register for FREE seminars.
For the Love of the Horse is a seminar series of complimentary live, interactive webinars featuring industry experts on horse health topics. The first in a series is Laminitis: Understanding the disease and best practices for prevention with James A. Orsini, B.S., DVM, Director, Laminitis Institute at the
New Bolton Center.
Date: Sunday, March 29, 2020
Time: 7 p.m. EST | 4 p.m. PST
REGISTER here.
If you can’t make it for the live webinar, you can register for the free, shareable Video-on-Demand.
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Let the pros design a course for you.
Take advantage of world-class Course Design expertise – you can contact Guilherme Jorge with the dimensions of your ring and he will send a course plan; Nick Granat is also offering his design services contact him via Facebook message or at nick@nickgranat.com.
What are you doing to distract and amuse yourselves these days? Knitting ear bonnets? Assembling 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzles of white horses in a snowstorm? We would love to hear your suggestions – send them to editor@horse-canada.com
