XC Schooling In Preparation for Highclere Just one week to Highclere Horse Trials, our seasonal debut, and it seems like an age since I brought the big white charger back into work. He’s gone from a white giraffe to nifty looking eventer, and I’ve shed 2 inches off my waist and about a stone in…
Horse’s Flatwork: Improving | Rider’s Flatwork: Requires Attention Time ticks on and another week passes by on the road to our seasonal debut at Highclere Horse Trials. Last week I spent mostly concentrating on flatwork, partly because the ground was hard (no cantering on grass), partly because I needed the farrier to arrive (I don’t…
Highlere Castle – our planned seasonal debut Just weeks to go now until our seasonal debut at Highclere Castle Horse Trials (who does a seasonal debut in August?!), and a bit like the Australian WEG Team my own plans are a bit of a mixed bag at present. The big white charger is actually coming along pretty…
Showjumping at Highclere Everybody seems to be talking about their “road to WEG2010″. Team GBR has been announced, The Americans, even the Brazilians. All the riders are out interviewing, being ghost written in blogs, yada, yada, yada! So whilst I haven’t got a cat in hell’s chance of getting anywhere near the World Equestrian Games,…
Two weeks on and we’re both getting nearer to peak fitness, despite no sign of rain to soften the ground. The farrier has been and his feet are starting to shape up, it’s quite incredible the difference a good trim up makes to posture and therefore agility. I’d even go as far as saying he…
I’m now into week five of “Getting fit again for eventing”, and I have to say the progress has been very rewarding if a little frustrating at times. So far I’ve managed to keep the horse’s weight down so that I not fighting fatness as well as fitness. The ‘cold back’ seems to be getting…
On a slightly different track to the usual posts I wanted to write a little something about getting a horse fit for eventing after some time off – as this is exactly what I’m currently doing. After about 4 or 5 months in the field through no fault of his own, my horse, now 15,…