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Trainer Tips: Five Coaching Strategies to Bring Out the Best in Your Students
Lately, I have been getting more questions from trainers about how they can improve their coaching and training to positively influence their students’ performance. When it comes to helping riders...
Trainer Tips: Five Coaching Strategies to Bring Out the Best in Your Students
Lately, I have been getting more questions from trainers about how they can improve their coaching and training to positively influence their students’ performance. When it comes to helping riders...
Hang On to Your Hat: An Insider’s Guide to Eventing in 2018
The European eventing circuit kicked off in Barroca d’Alva, Portugal, and continues on at full-speed until the traditional season closer, the French CCI4* at Pau in the beginning of November....
Hang On to Your Hat: An Insider’s Guide to Eventing in 2018
The European eventing circuit kicked off in Barroca d’Alva, Portugal, and continues on at full-speed until the traditional season closer, the French CCI4* at Pau in the beginning of November....
Lillie Keenan’s Top 10 Lessons From Cian O’Connor
Editor's note: This is a repost of an article published in June 2018. Lillie has since moved on to train with McLain Ward, but the lessons she learned from her...
Lillie Keenan’s Top 10 Lessons From Cian O’Connor
Editor's note: This is a repost of an article published in June 2018. Lillie has since moved on to train with McLain Ward, but the lessons she learned from her...
Ask Us: “My young horse and I had a miscommunication on course and now he doesn’t trust me.”
We’re tracking down expert insights into your toughest, horse-related questions. In today’s edition, American eventer Laine Ashker shares her thoughts on building back a partnership’s confidence when it’s been shaken....
Ask Us: “My young horse and I had a miscommunication on course and now he doesn’t trust me.”
We’re tracking down expert insights into your toughest, horse-related questions. In today’s edition, American eventer Laine Ashker shares her thoughts on building back a partnership’s confidence when it’s been shaken....
How to Kick Self-Criticism to the Curb (Once and For All!)
For some reason, we tend to believe that in order to improve, we need to be criticizing ourselves constantly. In my opinion, however, this does not work at all. It’s...
How to Kick Self-Criticism to the Curb (Once and For All!)
For some reason, we tend to believe that in order to improve, we need to be criticizing ourselves constantly. In my opinion, however, this does not work at all. It’s...
Defying Age: Here’s What It Takes to Keep a Top Grand Prix Horse Thriving Late Into Its Career
Richard Spooner hasn’t campaigned three incredibly talented senior show jumpers by pure luck, even though the humble horseman might tell you otherwise. Spooner, based in Agua Dulce, Calif., campaigned Robinson,...
Defying Age: Here’s What It Takes to Keep a Top Grand Prix Horse Thriving Late Into Its Career
Richard Spooner hasn’t campaigned three incredibly talented senior show jumpers by pure luck, even though the humble horseman might tell you otherwise. Spooner, based in Agua Dulce, Calif., campaigned Robinson,...
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