Can’t ‘see’ a take-off spot or distance if your life depended on it? Perhaps you’re looking too hard, or need to work on the basics.
Training
Sitting right in the middle of the Dressage Training Scale, contact is often the most misunderstood step on the scale. Learn how to correct mistakes here.
The struggle to keep the horse and rider sound of body and mind through the show season is always a top priority for trainers.
What would happen to a rider who entered the ring for an equitation class with black stirrup irons? Keep reading to find out more.
You've practiced dressage, jumped some stadium courses, and schooled over cross-country obstacles. But are you and your horse ready to compete at a horse trial?
Randy Roy is a senior international judge, course designer and author. He owns and operates Hunters Glen Show Stable in King, ON, with his daughter, Ryan Roy.
In the third and final segment of a series on training young event horses, top eventer Kendal Lehari and her instructor/event rider mother, Gwen, discuss their system for preparing four- and five-year-olds for their competition careers at Reindalyne Farm in Uxbridge, ON.
You are being judged from the minute you enter the ring to the minute you exit, so give yourself every opportunity to succeed.
Steps to developing young horses with positive attitudes
Randy Roy is a senior international judge, course designer and author. He owns and operates Hunters Glen Show Stable in King, ON, with his daughter, Ryan Roy.
