Dressage dinosaur
We’ve been really busy with SJ clinics and another super day Arena Eventing schooling at Pyecombe. We’ve also had three pre-season XC schools at LMEQ, Munstead and Tweseldown. Millie’s event season starts on Saturday and she is quite beside herself!
Young Rodders
Rodney has come back into work and has had his first outing to the Four Elms SJ clinic. He was very well behaved. He is a very different kettle of fish to his little sister. He is mostly really laid back but gets himself into quite a pickle if he doesn’t understand something. The young lad also has a bit of a temper when he thinks he’s being hard done by. The funniest thing has been with our new arena mirrors. He is completely obsessed with the handsome bay dude!
Bomber at Petley Wood BD
Bomboms has continued to play dressage diva with Elementary outings at Petley Wood and Blue Barn BD. She is qualified for an Area Festival now, and also did a music clinic with Gaynor Colbourn. She is back in full work, and seems OK so far. She has had a flatwork session with Char, has dragged her mother around some small XC fences, and has been out and jumped an 80cm SJ round. Everything crossed that the Bomber is feeling more sprightly than the very rusty jockey!
Clients have been having a great time too. Mark qualified Harvey for the Prelim Silver BD Regionals, Heather has qualified Okie for the BD Winter Nationals in the Prelim Festival class, and Molly has been accepted by Voltaire Saddles onto their Junior Program. She has a lovely new jump saddle coming her way; lucky girl!
I’ve been on a couple of good courses recently, something that is only really possible to fit in during the winter. I did a fantastic coaches’ day with Andy Thomas “Creating rider symmetry to improve performance”. Aside from anything else it reminds you that we are all wonky, could all improve ourselves, and not to forget the effect that it can have on the horse. Then a couple of weeks ago I was at Bath Racecourse kick starting the Centre 10 Applied Psychology for Equestrian Coaches course for 2019. This side of things is something that has always interested me, and I did a day coaches’ course with Charlie a while back so I was really keen to get accepted for this. We were lucky enough to have elite athletes and coaches from other disciplines come and talk to us and have a guided tour around the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Wowsers, that place is something else. So inspirational.
Millie showing off!
At the end of last week Jane van Lennep, Director of Nutrition at Simple System came to the yard to assess the team and offer nutritional advice for the season ahead. Unfortunately the Bomber always looks like a goat at this time of year where her clip grows out a completely different colour but the other horses all look and feel great. Millie just couldn’t quite hold herself together for the whole visit. It’s a bit like squeezing a balloon into a box that is too small. Eventually it will burst out, and burst out she did!
However, she was a very good girl at the Munstead pre-season combined training in horizontal rain so let’s cross our fingers for Poplar and Munstead BE90s. BomBoms will hopefully get another dressage outing, and if she’s lucky some more fun jumping.
I have just realised that the unaffiliated dressage I had planned for Rodney is actually a fun fancy- dress day. How much trouble would I have been in as Martin walked him away from the lorry straight into a tyrannosaurus rex!! Best we give that one a swerve…
About
Janine is a British Dressage Recognised Coach and Group 3 Rider based in Kent. She has trained and competed from Prelim to PSG but with a background in the training of young event horses she is also very popular for show-jump instruction and cross-country schooling. She is a UKCC qualified coach, is on the BHS Register of Instructors, is a Centre10 Advanced Coach (Applied Psychology for Equestrian Coaches) and a Pony Club B+ Test Assessor and instructor.
She has always had a broad range of clients with numerous wins in British Dressage including the all important qualifications to the Regionals and National Winter Championships. She has lots of British Eventing clients with qualification to the much sought after Badminton Grassroots Regionals. On the showing side there has been a National Side-Saddle Working Hunter Champion, and riders at HOYS in the Search For A Star classes. With a very diverse bunch of clients nothing gives her more pleasure than to receive a text with the day’s results. However she is happy teaching all levels, so long as you want to improve.
Janine is based at Carmen Court near Tonbridge (owned by one of her sponsors Louisa Day Photography) but also teaches from home in Swanley Village. Most of her teaching is in Kent and the local Sussex area but she can travel further by arrangement.
There are very popular show-jumping clinics at Carmen Court from April to August each year, and clinics through the winter under cover at Four Elms Farm. Janine is always happy to do clinics at other venues in the South East.
She has been very successful with rider confidence problems and helping with the psychology of training and competing. As coach, Janine is often very much part of the team as required.
Janine and Martin are sponsored by Simple System Horse Feeds and are Product Ambassadors for Equilibrium Products. They can be found on Facebook under the name Team Lamy Wright.
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