Quest4Confidence

19/02/2023

😱 Canter

👋🏻 hands up who dreads it?

👋🏻 hands up who only does 1 lap for fear it will get faster and faster stronger and stronger and you loose control?

👋🏻 hands up who does 1 obligatory lap in each direction at the end of your schooling session and breathes a sign of relief?

Gregg challenged Anna to canter more than a lap canter more and more!

Why?

To demonstrate that your horse is NOT going to get faster and faster - infact they get pretty puffed out and end up slower and slower!

Dispel the myth yourself - try it!

Canter past letter A - three times and you’ll soon see how hard you have to work to keep it going Vs your brains 🧠 version that if you keep going you’ll end up out of control.

We’ve got the freedom of forward that we know gives us a much smoother canter transition instead of a massive fanfare to go up a gear from trott - so now combine it with the power of 3 and see what you CAN do!

You’ll suprise yourself and it will change your feelings on cantering.

Anna has cantered her socks off this weekend and already can’t wait to do it again - her horse not so much 🤦🏼‍♀️ it’s hard work! 😴

29/01/2023

Anna’s feeling very chuffed returning back from a solo hack this Sunday morning 🙌

2 big wins from today to share

1) Although you can’t control the world around you - you can control how you react

The route she always wants to do is a mental challenge as involves going past a driveway where previously a dog has run out - and she is always apprehensive when approaching and horse picks up on it and that scary I feel sick feeling joins the party 🎉

So this morning, instead of heading of with the dreaded ??? She rang the neighbour and asked if the dog was about? They had a chat about Anna’s fear of the dog following her and the neighbour said oh! Just let me know if you are passing I’ll make sure he’s indoors - he’s actually asleep in the basket right now

So with that in mind off they set and funny how the horse wasn’t picking up any vibes from Anna as we knew pooch was having a snooze indoors and not waiting round the corner.

Yes - we would still need to face up to a dog if it presented and you can’t control that - but what we are saying is, if there is a ni**le on your favourite route that puts you off why not see if having a chat can help perhaps put it to bed - in this case quite literally 🐾 😴

2) Anna’s horse has spent December off every day grazing with his buddies. So when they set off out this morning - on the way out it was a nap-a-thon

It did get Anna’s heart thumping but she rode on and used all the power of and made him trott on whenever the walk started to slow/go sideways or stroppy!

The way out is uphill and horse learned that it was much easier to walk nicely than be pushed forward to trott and it’s amazing how going faster/forward which btw is the opposite gear for a nervous brain to contemplate usually - actually really does calm down a tantrum and gives you and the horse something else to think about - you literally are trotting away from your troubles

Have you been out this weekend? Go on - there’s still Sunday afternoon to enjoy - do it! X

17/12/2022

05/07/2022

25/06/2022

Go on Madge 👑 what a Questie! 💕

Make sue you get your rides in this weekend - HRH shows us there’s no excuses and this is our passion no matter what! 🙌

12/06/2022

How many people tell us the problem is their yard is just too busy with lots going on and it frightens their horse, or horses don’t like the hose pipe, the flag, the flapping bit of tarpaulin, the weird flower pot by the drive, the tractor, the cars, the person power washing, the event gazebos, the dogs, the window cleaner etc etc etc.
Do you think all these people were talking like this? Look at the photo and imagine people shouting “hey mate, just stop that a minute”
Life went on, it was all normal and all the horses just went about their business.
The leisure and pleasure horse has become sadly a fairly useless being! Not through any fault of its own but it’s owners who decided that horses can’t do things. It’s unfair to our horses.

Question: Have you put the hours, weeks, years of training in to help the horse, have you done your bite sizes for both you and your horse?
Have you remembered that for thousands of years horses have worked alongside man to do everything.
Horses built our roads, built our towns and cities, went to war, went on ships, were our sole transportation anywhere and everywhere, ploughed our fields, helped on our farms, took us to visit people and to go shopping and to church on Sundays.

Horses are brilliant and very capable. (If we teach them)

For hundreds and hundreds of years horses have been great, versatile and useful but for the last 60 or so years they have become more and more incapable and at times wasted as they go into the leisure world as we have cars and machinery.

Don’t dumb down your horses - lift your horse up, celebrate your horse and enjoy the journey of teaching your horse how the world goes with confidence.

Don’t tell your horse he can’t do something - my horse won’t like that, my horse can’t do that, can you stop doing that.

We didn’t choose to ride lions and use them to build our world.
We used horses as they are great.

Help them , teach them, put the effort in.
The horse will only thank you in the end.

https://www.horsebackcombat.co.uk/courses/rider-confidence-lessons/

16/05/2022

A fun weekend ride with lessons with our Gregg from GB dressage 🙌

02/05/2022

21/04/2022

Happy Birthday your Majesty 👑

This photo taken only last month - what an inspirational equestrian she is 🙌 🐴 ❤️

12/03/2022

Anna’s been to the Dark Horse Equestrian sale today! Don’t tell Gregg…

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09/03/2022

Goals 🙌 this is how it should be ❤️

Thank you to a friend from Texas for sending in this x

03/03/2022

It’s our coach Gregg & his lovely boy Dougie GB dressage 🐴 ❤️

19/01/2022

Anna has the saddle pads with the planets on - we will explain why in a future episode ❤️

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18/01/2022

Monday Night 7pm tack sales by horse rescue Rainbow Bridge Equine Rescue who have their own fabulous tackshop Rainbow Bridge Equine Rescue Tack Shop with quality new & used bargains!

They are in sussex but post all over the UK 🇬🇧 so you can shop til you drop and the bidding and banter on the Facebook live auction is a good laugh too 👍

7pm Mondays live on their page