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Show mornings have a way of making ordinary jobs feel surprisingly complicated. Finding a missing number bib, remembering the horse’s water bucket, and…
Teaching Archie to lengthen his canter has been less about asking for more speed and more about developing a stronger, more adjustable stride. In eventing, I…
Archie is a very honest jumper. If I give him a clear question and keep my body quiet, he generally tries hard and jumps with plenty of enthusiasm. His…
Walking a cross-country course twice might sound like overkill when you're juggling work, horse care, a float that is perpetually covered in dust, and the…
When the thermometer at Werribee hits the high thirties and Archie has just cantered around a cross-country course at three-day speed, the first thing on my…
A horse spooking in the warm-up is one of those moments that can change the atmosphere in seconds. One rider loses a stirrup, another horse jumps sideways, and…
Archie had been coiled in his box all morning, a ball of muscle and twitchy ears waiting for the cross-country phase. We'd driven down to Melbourne a day…
Archie and I have spent plenty of schooling sessions wrestling with his canter. He drops onto his forehand, rushes when he's unsure, and flicks between feeling…
A dressage test can feel very different from the saddle than it looks from the other side of the arena. I may finish a movement thinking Archie was beautifully…
My routine for checking stud holes and studs before cross-country day has become one of those quiet rituals that makes a competition morning feel manageable.…