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Winderen Gel Bit System | Product Review

Its been a while buckers, The OG horse product reviewer has returned! Back with a bang with our latest product review on the “Winderen Gel Bit System”. Often you see product reviews been thrown up within minutes of said person receiving said “free” product, myself on the other hand, I like to use and trial products for quite some time before I feel happy or comfortable being able to actually…

Product Review | Reinrite Lunging Aid

The ReinRite Lunge…. I bet your all wondering what this product is, where it came from and why it has taken me near to a full year to write a review about it! Well, you know what they say… product reviews do take time, this allows me to use the product for some length of time before I spill the beans to you guys on my thoughts on the said product. Lets jump right in, and get to the nitty gritty…

EGO7 vs Roeckl – The Glove Review

Hello Buckers! It has been some time since I sat down and put some words into a blog for you all! It has been a hectic few months, form riding everyday to jumping almost every weekend, I did struggle to get back into the swing of blogging. I have been quite content on sticking to my Instagram posts, and well frankly I do miss writing down my opinions and putting my thoughts down in writing.…

March Exercise 1 – Improving Your Horses Canter & Adjustability

The month of February seemed to run off with me a little and I never got to upload my last exercise! What better excuse to keep pushing them into March to keep us all motivated during our extended lockdown, here in Ireland anyways. This week we are back to pole work. I still alternate between grid work, related distance pole work and course jumping, so this is an exercise I tend to use quite a…

A Bunch of Jumpy Jumps – February Exercise 2

This week I am going to introduce you to a jumping exercise! It did not originally start out like the layout below, but with some great arena help my original grid progressed into quite an interesting workout not only for Dante but for me too. I keep my jumping to twice a week, alternating between grid work and related distance work for the meantime, I certainly killed two birds with one stone…

Focus On The Poles – February Exercise 1

It has been forever since I have had the time to sit down and put together some of the exercises I have been doing with Dante over the past few weeks. Dante is on a 7 day working schedule and for our flat/pole days and likewise on our jumping days I like to be prepared with what I am doing so that our time isn’t wasted in the arena. For the month of February, I shall be sharing with you guys a…

In times of trouble, us Irish seem to always find a way to laugh or joke or to have some humourous way around dealing with the hard things. We do often use this as a way of avoiding or dealing with the crazy and troubling times we are facing yet again, can you actually believe it? No. Me neither. The fabulous Lorna O’Hare from Equestrian Reality recently set up a Facebook page gathering and…

Youngster Exercise Series – The Circle Challenge

Here’s another exercise that is a bit more challenging but excellent for a young horse to take on. I did this one with Cosmo before we went into complete lockdown in March. It was tough but very rewarding when we got it right.

WHAT IS THIS EXERCISE GOOD FOR?

Building topline

Encouraging self-carriage

Making your horse more sure-footed

Improving balance

HOW TO SET IT UP

For this exercise…

A Winter Exercise Staple - Trot N Rock

Finally getting back into the swing of normal again, making a riding schedule and trying to stick to it has now become quite the challenge, I forgot how much I hated the winter. Trying to get on top of our exercises has also been something I have really missed.

This exercise, Trot N Rock was one I done quite a bit through summer months, or during the first lockdown shall I say, it was a great…

Fear of the Fall

For such a common eventuality among horse riders, this is something I don’t see too many people talk about. This sport we do is pretty high up there in the ‘dangerous sports’ category – a quick google search of the most dangerous sports will show you that horse riding (or sports involving riding horses eg. Polo, jousting, racing etc) is always listed in the top 10. This doesn’t surprise me one…

Youngster Exercise Series – Straighten Out

As you may be realising, Cosmo has a bit of a straightness issue so I came up with this series of poles to help work on this problem. It’s relatively simple but enough for a young brain to get to grips with.

WHAT IS THIS EXERCISE GOOD FOR?

Straightness

Rhythm

Seeing a stride

HOW TO SET IT UP?

For this exercise you’ll need pretty much your full arena and the following:

For the Trot Poles:

What’s going on? – A Riders Pandemic

It has been quite a while since I wrote down my thoughts or even blogged properly but I felt it was about time I told you guys what has actually been going on not only with me but with Dante too. I feel like I am being such a negative social media hun lately, I am lacking the happy Instagram that I had been used to sharing. We are currently living through a pandemic, like a world pandemic, it…

5 Equestrian Products I Am Obsessed With

Remember me? It sure has been quite a while since I put some keyboard to interweb! I am back and what better way to re-enter the horse blogger world than to give you a list of my top 5 Equestrian products I am obsessing over at the minute.

Keep reading to find out, be warned, I am a bargain hunter with some things, I love a good bargain and a good long standing product… get the credit cards…

ReinRite Exercise Series – The Turn Table

It has certainly been a while, writing up blog posts the last while has been something I have neglected, but I am back! You may have noticed that I have been using my reinrite products a lot in terms of bringing Dante back into fitness since lockdown. Before lockdown we rode in our ReinRite Training Aid once a week, this kept Dante on his toes, it also encouraged him to self carry properly.

I…

Controversial Topic: Training Aids

The topic that brings equestrians together worldwide & not for those kind hearted reasons. Using a training aid verses not using a training aid, can you believe how aggravated people get on the subject? I often find myself up late at night reading comments under facebook posts, people just love to argue online over this topic!

It is not rare to see people getting annihilated, and torn to…

Grill The Equestrian – Michelle Kenny

It’s been quite some time since we Grilled an Equestrian. Keeping on track with our “Inspirational Women” theme we are so excited to have Michelle Kenny on board to take part.

She has been rolling off the tip of the tongue lately, being a rider many women of all ages look up to, we just couldn’t resist throwing some questions her way and she certainly did not disappoint with her answers!

Product Review – Le Mieux Hay Tidy Bag

I am banging out the product reviews lately. I am really enjoying sharing my opinions on certain products I have purchased or received as gifts, most of them were either Christmas presents or Birthday presents, none have been gifted by the brands themselves, so I hope that is some reassurance to our readers that all of our reviews are genuine.

9 times out of 10 the review is good, mainly…