Title: Balmoral Presents Johan Hamminga
Location: Balmoral Equestrian Centre, 299 Harkaway Road, Narre Warren North VIC 3804
Date: 19-22 October 2010
Description: One of the most famous and well respected judges and trainers in Holland!
Johan Hamminga is the chief judge for the Stallion Performance Testing at KWPN in Holland. Johan has trained many successful combinations right through [...]

Title: ‘An Equestrian Festival’ featuring Olympic Gold Medalist Heike Kemmer
Location: Boneo Park, 312 Boneo Rd, Boneo (Melways map 170, A9)
Description: A day of equestrian activities for the whole family. Featuring dressage champion Brett Parbery, Warwick McLean and Olimpians Jamie Coman and Amanda Howell.
The day program will include demonstrations, stallion parade, trade village and mini masterclasses [...]

Have you recently hit a brick wall with you training? or maybe that little stumbling block is taking longer than expected to resolve. Everyone can suffer from periods of disillusionment in their riding, where things feel forced and we seem to fall out of ‘flow’. Much like you might experience writer’s block or creative stagnation, [...]

With all the current talk of negative tension and the debate over hyperflexion / rollkur and other ‘in vogue’ techniques Dressage Today has published an interesting article from an FEI trainer with a slightly different perspective.
Whilst we might have settled on an approach designed to instill relaxed confidence in our horses, how do we create [...]

Long Reining – The Saumur Method
Philippe Karl
ISBN: 1 57076 238 4
Hardcover, 96 pages.
For those of you who have ever thought about it, long reining can be an excellent way to build muscle, keep older horses in work and generally develop your relationship with your horse – and if you’re thinking of trying it, you’ll want [...]