Dressage training
Eventing training
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13 expert tips from Pippa Funnell including take your time, steer with your eyes, and repeat, repeat, repeat
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*Exclusive* How Alex Bragg’s training exercise uses turns to master straightness while jumping
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*Exclusive* Improve your horse’s rideability and straightness with Harry Meade’s three-fence jumping exercise
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*Exclusive* ‘Small fences help produce expressive, accurate flying changes’: how Harry Meade mixes dressage with cavaletti
Showjumping training
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*Exclusive* Improve your horse’s footwork while jumping and have fun with Gemma Stevens’ gridwork exercise
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Does your horse rush when jumping? Tips from an expert to help solve this problem
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11 showjumping training tips from three-time Hickstead Derby winner John Ledingham and youth medallist Tabitha Kyle
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Only have four pairs of wings, plus poles? 5 great jumping exercises you can try
Showing training
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‘They’ve got to cover the ground and travel’: meet the Royal Windsor show hunter pony performance judge
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‘Lots of riders disregard the walk – it’s the first and last thing the judge sees’: meet the 2025 Royal Windsor M&M performance judge
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‘I’m looking for a pony that is going to give a child confidence’: find out what the 2025 Royal Windsor mini M&M judge wants to see
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Know your Shire from your Suffolk from your Percheron: a cheat’s guide to the ridden heavy horse showing classes
Cross-country schooling
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Watch Ros Canter’s 2023 Blenheim winner learning to jump skinny fences as a rising five-year-old
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How often does Tom McEwen go cross-country schooling? Do his horses wear studs for it? Find out here…
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48 cross-country schooling venues you need to check out
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#SundaySchool: Jumping a horse on an angle with Francis Whittington
Polework exercises
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Learn how to strengthen your horse at home using polework
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*Exclusive* ‘Aim to do this straightforward exercise to score 10 out of 10’: how Harry Meade uses polework to improve suppleness
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Only have four pairs of wings, plus poles? 5 great jumping exercises you can try
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Not just for trotting over: Michael Eilberg shares his innovative use of poles
Gridwork exercises
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*Exclusive* Ahead of the curve: train your horse to be soft yet strong with Alex Bragg’s jumping exercise on a turn
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*Exclusive* Teach your horse the art of patience and power with Alex Bragg’s five-fence training exercise
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*Exclusive* Sharp and snappy: Gemma Stevens’ gridwork exercise that will teach your horse to be both careful and bold
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*Exclusive* Improve your horse’s footwork while jumping and have fun with Gemma Stevens’ gridwork exercise
Groundwork techniques
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‘Be the catalyst for fun in your horse’s life’: Emma Massingale’s expert tips to get a horse to tune in and listen to you
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How do I lunge a young horse? Useful advice from Jennie Loriston-Clarke
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How to lunge a horse – your essential guide
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Riding from the ground: the benefits of long reining and how to do it
Lateral work
Hacking skills
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Fancy a beach ride, but feel nervous riding in open spaces? This expert advice will help build your confidence so you can enjoy it
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Be safer on the roads: introduce your horse to traffic with this five-point plan
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Does your horse hate to go behind when hacking? Try these three exercises
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9 ways to train your horse out hacking for success on competition day
Training young horses
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Are young horses being ‘ruined’ by doing too much too soon? Experts debate
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*Exclusive* ‘I start them at five, they all hack and we jump more in the winter’: Tom McEwen’s training ethos for young horses
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Teaching a young horse to jump with Tina Fletcher
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#SundaySchool: a really useful training exercise for young horses
Rider fitness
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Want to improve your balance in the saddle? Try these simple but not easy international eventer-approved exercises on the flat, with poles and over fences
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*Exclusive* 3 simple mounted exercises to improve your strength and balance in the saddle from a five-star event rider and top coach
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Fuel your performance: rider nutrition tips to help optimise your results
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Rider fitness: what do we really mean by ‘core’ and how does it work?
Rider mindset
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Adam Cromarty: ‘Clear minds help with clear rounds’
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Fancy a beach ride, but feel nervous riding in open spaces? This expert advice will help build your confidence so you can enjoy it
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*Exclusive* Boost your confidence in the saddle with these 6 steps to channel focus and shake off the nerves
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Lost riding confidence after having a baby? A confidence coach explains why becoming a parent can affect your equestrian life
