Showing can be a hard world to crack. What is the judge really looking for? What type is my horse? What level should I be entering? These are all common questions and it can be hard to find the answers.
In this section you will find the resources to help you answer these questions as well as top tips on how to prep your horse and what your ridden show should look like.
To celebrate the launch of our new website, the run up to Christmas and the fact that me and Scottie are finally back to Dressaging, I thought this would be the perfect time to talk about one of our fantastic sponsors, EquiMind. Who are EquiMind? For those of you have…
After my frustrating attempt at filming our dressage test this month for EquiMind I decided to cheer myself up by taking full advantage of my Sponsored rider’s 50% discount and enter some of their fun photo showing classes. Despite being a bit of fun, they are still judged by traditional judging criteria…
I am really pleased to tell you all that I am one of the new EquiMind Sponsored riders! EquiMind is a new (ish) online competition for; dressage, showing, western and horsemanship classes. I entered for the first time in April and you can read all about my first experience with…
We had a very good month for E-Dressage’s new(ish) showing classes. Since Scottie’s injuries have healed enough that they are not easy to spot, I planned to enter the ex racehorse ridden class and the in hand, plus a couple of fun classes. Unfortunately, due to the low winter sun,…
Sorry it has taken so long to write about last months dressage. But I have had a very busy week being away with work, then my graduation and then a lovely wedding in Italy. So I am now back at home and have my results and feedback. So here goes!…
Online showing isn’t a new idea. These competitions are all over the internet and usually consist of sending in a photo of your horse and it will be judged by the organisers and the winner will receive a rosette etc. I have never entered these classes because a photo can…
We had a very successful weekend! On Saturday we got our feedback video and results from E-Dressage, where we came 4th for our Intro and got 60% for our Prelim! Thanks to these results, we are now currently 5th in the racehorse league, only a few points behind joint 3rd…
Yesterday I took Scottie to do his first ridden showing classes. It was a good day out and although it wasn’t as successful as we had hoped, it really showed how much Scottie has improved. I also learnt that Scottie doesn’t cope well when I am stressed! Saturday Scottie was…
Some of you may have read posts about me getting ready for the show season and my plans to start doing showing classes with Scottie. Well our first show is on Sunday, which also happens to be Scottie’s Birthday! I have been working really hard this week to improve our…
Some of you may have read my last post about my plans to pursue showing with Scottie (read it here.) Well this is a follow up post after I have done a bit more research and I’m starting to get into the spirit of the season by starting to buy…
We have done very little jumping recently and on the few occasions we have popped over a jump, it is very apparent how much confidence Scottie has lost jumping. I have therefore decided that the best thing to do would be to go back to complete basics when I have…
First, I would like to thank The British Horse Society for supplying the tickets I won for the Sunday of the Logines Royal International Horse Show. I had an amazing day out! I had never been to this show before, despite loving watching the top level jumping held at Hickstead throughout…
For those of you who follow mine and Scottie’s story, you will know that we have entered a couple of Best Condition classes and managed to place in both. However, I know that many people are confused as to what Judges look for in Best Condition classes, so I hope…
One of the local Pony Clubs held a show just down the road today, so I took Scottie along for a nice morning out. It was a qualifiers show with showing classes, hunter classes and show jumping, as well as some fun pony club bits in the afternoon. I entered…
On Saturday I took Scottie to a local show to do some in hand classes. The original plan was to do some jumping in the afternoon. However, the weather put us off with no where to keep us or the horses dry. It was close enough for us to hack to.…
