This week I met up with lovely Alíz in Surrey. We first met a couple of years ago when I saw her beautiful mare Freya. Freya has now been retired and Alíz has a handsome new young steed named Arthur. Before Alíz bought him, he was started with a view to being a show jumper, and now Alíz has taken him back a few steps to teach him how to use his body and become more soft and supple.
He is a big moving horse and has a tendency to have a very high head carriage, and hasn’t quite learnt to stretch down and seek the contact.
So we worked on making Arthur feel free enough so that he could stretch, lift his back and feel comfortable to lower his head and neck and really start to open his stride up.
He stayed really balanced and was happy to travel forward and soon got the idea! As you can see in the video, he is a little unsure, but soon let’s go and is really happy to change his frame.
I’m looking forward to seeing how this lovely partnership progresses ❤️