horsemagazine – Page 64 – The Horse Magazine

Susanne Miesner – Schooling the young horse – Part 2

June 2nd, 2018
Horses don’t come with a manual. The rider needs to know the aims of training. Many trainers don’t know enough about basic education for young horses, says Susanne Miesner... Read Article 1 Comment »

Susanne Miesner – Schooling the young horse – Part 1

May 16th, 2018
Susanne Miesner is successful at Grand Prix level, and also in the Young horse classes, and conducts clinics and seminars worldwide. She asks the question, are you ready for a young horse? Read Article 1 Comment »

George Morris – Timeless Truths – Part One

May 12th, 2018
If the role of the trainer is to re-state simple truths over and over again, there is no trainer in the universe who can do the job anywhere near as well as George Morris. Each time those timeless truths come packaged in a whole new set of startling sentences, each time with insights that are as fresh as tomorrow’s dawn... Read Article 6 Comments »

Christopher Burton – Forging a new combination

May 11th, 2018
Christopher Burton talks about a new horse - and his training methods... Read Article Comments Off

Form & Function – Johan Hamminga Outlines A Brilliant Synthesis

April 25th, 2018
Johan Hamminga is not only a great trainer, he is a great explainer - here he looks at the conformation of the dressage horse... Read Article Comments Off

Amazing Brilliant Wonderful Kyra

April 11th, 2018
An historic occasion, Kyra Kyrklund comes to Australia - one of the first of the visiting rider/ trainers to conduct a dressage clinic... And yes, what she said then is still good sense. Read Article Comments Off

A lesson with Leonie Bramall

April 9th, 2018
Leonie Bramall is a gifted instructor, and one of the most knowledgeable. She has competed at the highest level, and trained with some of the great classical trainers for many years... Read Article 2 Comments »

Young horse stars or Grand Prix stars? That’s the question…

March 28th, 2018
Do young dressage class horses go on to become Grand Prix competitors - Chris Hector finds that quite a few do... Read Article 2 Comments »

Sylvia McLachlan takes a lesson with Princess Nathalie

March 27th, 2018
This article was written in 2012, when Australian rider, Sylvia McLachlan was working with Danish dressage star, now team coach, Princess Nathalie. There's some great discussion on how to get the right feeling... Read Article Comments Off

Fritz Stahlecker – A new way of training horses…

March 12th, 2018
Fritz Stahlecker has developed his own horse friendly way of starting the dressage horse - on the ground... We are saddened to learn of his recent death. He was a thinker, a horseman, and someone who was prepared to put his theories into action and show how they worked. Read Article Comments Off