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Links An Eventing Clinic with Matt Ryan - Flatwork Flatwork is very important, a lot more important than we all think (I mean we as eventers) I use flatwork a lot not just for the dressage test but also for fittening. In England and I suppose to a lesser extent in Australia most eventers use roadwork to bring their horses back into work and to put the necessary fittening miles on them. I've eliminated a lot of roadwork, as roadwork involves you working on a hard, uncompromising surface and your flatwork will generally be done on a far less punishing surface of an arena. This will help you maintain your horse's soundness over his career, because it doesn't matter how good your horse is if he doesn't have four sound legs. Also there isn't enough time in an eventers program for schooling and every minute you spend on flatwork improves your horse's adjustability. Read More... (Added: 31-Aug-2000 Hits: 357 Rating: 8.80 Votes: 5) Rate It Approach to Fitness and Taining of the Event Horses - John has been competing at One, Two and Three Day events for over ten years and was leading Event Rider in Australia in 1993 and 1994. John has competed on many different types of horse and during this three part series he discusses personal strategies, interval training and preparation for One Day and Three Day Events. John explains how fitness is the result of basic horsemanship and commonsense. Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 802 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 3) Rate It Combined Training - An introduction to a great equine event. To the uninitiated, there seem to be a number of terms for the sports that fall under the umbrella of combined training. Combined training, horse trials and eventing all seem related to each other, but what are they, exactly? Read More... (Added: 20-Jul-2000 Hits: 231 ) Rate It Cross Country with David Green - Part 2. The Coffin - The coffin is still one of the most influential fences on a cross country course today, at every level from novice to advanced. It often causes more than its fair share of problems, often due to bad riding as riders do any or all of the following: approach too fast, approach too flat, do not give the horse time to see the first element clearly, get tipped forward on landing and be unable to help the horse negotiate the ditch, become unseated over the first two elements and hang on to the horse's mouth over the third or run out at the third element. Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 185 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 1) Rate It Cross Country with David Green - Part 3. The Toothbrush - As cross country courses today become ever more technical, course designers speculate on new ways to test bravery and accuracy over fixed fences. One of the new innovations we are seeing more and more frequently in Europe is the so called 'toothbrush' fence, named because of the way the fixed elements represent the bristles on a toothbrush. Variations on this have now filtered down to novice events and since this type of fence can represent an optical illusion for the horse if it is not ridden correctly, it is important to include this in your training exercises at home. Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 172 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 1) Rate It Cross Training with Jane Savoie - In a sensational new pair of books, Cross-Train Your Horse, and More Cross-Training, Olympic level dressage competitor, Jane Savoie discovers the constant threads that unite the training programs of rider/trainers from every field... from the world of the British Show Hunter, to the Western Reining horse, the Three Day Eventer, the Endurance horse, and lots lots more. This extract is from the first book, Cross-Train Your Horse, and explains how to 'lengthen' your horse. Read More... (Added: 31-Aug-2000 Hits: 231 Rating: 9.25 Votes: 4) Rate It Eventing Basics - THE BIG 4: Forward - stop - turn left - turn right I've had my worst experiences when the horse hasn't taken notice of the four things which we have to teach them - go forward, stop, turn left, turn right. If I don't have the control of one of these, cross country becomes a frightening experience. You have to have your horse listening to your aids. It's the culmination of putting those four things together, that allows us to run and jump with our horses. Read More... (Added: 25-Aug-2000 Hits: 262 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 2) Rate It Eventing Basics part 2 - Rhythm & Seeing Your Stride Riding cross country is against the clock, now this doesn't mean that you have to go fast. It means that you have to take good lines. Every extra ten feet or three and a half metres that you travel, costs you one second. So if you can save half a metre on the approach and half a metre on the landing, and there are thirty jumps on the course, you come in half a minute quicker than someone else. Read More... (Added: 25-Aug-2000 Hits: 203 Rating: 6.00 Votes: 1) Rate It Eventing in Crisis - Bruce Davidson has probably ridden more championship courses over more years than anyone in the sport. Twice a world champion, Bruce takes an historical view of the present problem: "I think ever since its beginnings, the sport has been extremely conscious of safety, and being as protective of horse and rider as possible. Courses are much more horse friendly and built in a better way than they ever have been before. Horses are better educated, and better trained than they have been in the past. But it is a sport that requires speed and taking some chances. We've gone many many years without any incidents and it seems we have these incidents coming one behind the other. There will be a committee that looks into it, and comes up with the best answer possible as far as keeping the sport as far as possible. We used never to wear body protectors, our crash hats are much better than they used to be, all of that is improving... but when you play any game at the top of the line..." Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 224 Rating: 2.00 Votes: 1) Rate It Gill's Problem Corner - Hi Gill, I have a good school master type horse who is really good to ride, but lately he's getting lazy. The problem is that he's lazy over narrow fences. It's not that he's scared, he goes over any jump, even water if I ask him. He's just lazy and can't be bothered going over it the first time. He finds it easier just to run out at narrow jumps. He has never ever refused, only ever run out. I give him a whack and turn around and he jumps it straight away on the second go. Read More... (Added: 31-Aug-2000 Hits: 124 Rating: 2.00 Votes: 1) Rate It Picking the Right Event Horse with Matt Ryan - Event Horses ... They come in all shapes and sizes Australian eventing star MATT RYAN tells how he picks them (or at least tells how difficult it is... ) Read More... (Added: 31-Aug-2000 Hits: 215 Rating: 5.00 Votes: 2) Rate It Riding Cross Country at Home with David Green - Not every rider has access to a cross country course to work over - but that doesn't mean you can't school the fences you'll meet on cross country day, at home, using ordinary show jumping gear. We asked DAVID GREEN to outline a series of exercises, you can do at home Read More... (Added: 24-Aug-2000 Hits: 206 Rating: 8.00 Votes: 1) Rate It Schooling the Gallop (Part One) - So you're setting off on the cross-country with your new Thoroughbred. You realise by the third fence, he's reefing and pulling as you try to keep him under a hundred miles an hour, your arms are killing and your temper's not much better. Then you miss that short turn you should have set him up for. You have to circle, slipping on the turf in a less than classic arc, wasting time-you're down 40 faults, despite having schooled the brute in the arena for hours at a time. You've blown the event. What's happened? Read More... (Added: 28-Aug-2000 Hits: 752 Rating: 7.00 Votes: 1) Rate It Warming in the Eventer for Dressage - Heath Ryan’s controversial comments often obscure the fact that he is also a very creative and inspiring trainer of both horse and human. Watching him work in one of his pupils is an enthralling experience, seeing how delicately Heath balances the amount he can ‘push’ an energy charged three day eventer. Heath - who also competes at Grand Prix level dressage - says that the two sorts of dressage, eventing and dressage dressage, require quite different techniques in the warm up arena... Read More... (Added: 7-Oct-2001 Hits: 201 ) Rate It