Dressage Trainers - East Midlands

[Baydale]

I can't put it off any longer, much as I'd like to

, so can anyone recommend a trainer? It doesn't have to be a name, but just someone who is good "eyes on the ground", that can communicate well and who knows what they're talking about.

 

[chester1234]

Says the lady who got 28.something in an intermediate dr test

Maddy Smith at Witham, BD accredited

 

[Evadiva1514]

Carrie Adams at Centre Lines, Newark.
BD accredited trainer.

She's fab!

 

[icestationzebra]

You make it sound like torture!
Carrie is very good as mentioned. Or how about Daryll Thickett? He comes quite highly recommended.....

 

[tigers_eye]

Being a blinkered southerner can you tell me which counties that is and then I can tell you if my godmother is in that area! She is very good, had a hand in Landvision's education (the one Mark Todd just bought, it's also won national champs BD), and competed at Inter I herself just recently.

 

[icestationzebra]

Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire...

Derbyshire is also part of EM I guess - but a bit further away from BD.

 

[Baydale]

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You make it sound like torture!
Carrie is very good as mentioned. Or how about Daryll Thickett? He comes quite highly recommended.....

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It is, or at least that's what Hector told me.

Where is DT?

 

[seabiscuit]

Is that Janet? I didnt realise that she was your godmother!

Baydale, do you need dressage lessons?!!

There will be no hope for us mere mortals if you start having dressage lessons!!

 

[Baydale]

No, I'm really good at it, it's just Hector and Ross and every other horse that I ride that's not.

Hector's a bit stuck on 55ish at three days so that needs to improve. However now he's been hunting he's not so keen on the idea.

T_E Janet who?

 

[icestationzebra]

Hector is a big kidder!

Near Retford...

 

[BBs]

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Being a blinkered southerner can you tell me which counties that is and then I can tell you if my godmother is in that area! She is very good, had a hand in Landvision's education (the one Mark Todd just bought, it's also won national champs BD), and competed at Inter I herself just recently.

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Oo I know Landvisions old rider/owner Im sure he goes to Judy Harvey? but could be wrong.

 

[Baydale]

Just found his website thanks.

Will I have to wear white boots and bling if I go for a lesson?

 

[ddd]

BD does not have any accredited trainers it is just a database of names of people that offer their services as dressage trainers but they are not accredited by BD.

The fact that they are on the database just lets you know that they have insurance and first aid. It also lets you know what level they have ridden to and what level their pupils have ridden to.

 

[tigers_eye]

OI Ouija Board, I'm not so thick that I think Dorset might qualify I'll have you know!

No, godmother is in Warwickshire, very near Aston le Walls. Not Judy BBs, but thinks she works closely with her.

 

[Baydale]

Hmm, about 2.5 hours from me.

 

[icestationzebra]

Oh yes! Do you have some? I have also heard that fluffy things go down well - on the horse not you, and hoof oil with glitter in. Hector will love that

 

[SpottedCat]

Shoot me now. If you get the marks you have without lessons, then there is no hope for the likes of me who does (sporadically and not nearly often enough with one person!) take lessons and is still blinking awful at dressage.

Maybe we should just get BE to send you the rosettes and add the points over winter to save everyone time?

 

[Baydale]

You wouldn't tell me that just to make us look stupid would you?

 

[Gamebird]

Whispers *Carthorse goes for dressage lessons with white boots on, but don't tell his friends - they might laugh at him*

 

[Baydale]

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Shoot me now. If you get the marks you have without lessons, then there is no hope for the likes of me who does (sporadically and not nearly often enough with one person!) take lessons and is still blinking awful at dressage.

Maybe we should just get BE to send you the rosettes and add the points over winter to save everyone time?

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....but 55 isn't good enough a score at a three-day, and Hector hasn't got the wow paces that HH has so we need some help.

Don't knock me for wanting to be better.

 

[SpottedCat]

You need diamante to 'highlight' your quarter markers too you know.....

 

[hannahkirkhill]

I train with Andrew Day. He is super, very kind not pushy or loud but all ways gets us going really well. He explains everyting he asks me to do, not just do this and that, he tells me why he wants the horse to go like that, and how the skeletal and muscular system's work together to enable the horse to do it-sounds a bit much I know but everything makes so much more sense when you have a idea what is actualy going on.
I hated flat work before having lessons with him, now I love it. My troubled advanced horse has gone from last-(once the big E!!!!!) to top half in a year

Would recomend him to anyone!!!!!
Sure he is on BD's website if you fancy a look!!

 

[tigers_eye]

I will confess to having bought hoof gloss (distinct from hoof oil/blackener/grease I'll have you know), in black for libs and clear for wills

. I'd only gone on frogpool's site to get my necessary supply of chalk for william's socks but then got a bit carried away with other products in the grooming range!

 

[Baydale]

SpottedCat - now I know you're taking the mickey. Hector turns into the Julian Clary of the eventing world....

hannahbanana - welcome, and great name btw - doesn't he teach at Laughton Manor or is it Caythorpe?

 

[icestationzebra]

Would I ever do that to you?

I have watched lessons with another dressage trainer and several ladies turn up in FULL make up...

 

[SilverSkye]

Andrew Day is based at lambley i think ( or certainly used to be) he does quite a lot of clinics at various places, have never had a lesson with him myself but have seen him teach and have to say thought him to be an excellent instructor.

 

[SpottedCat]

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Would I ever do that to you?

I have watched lessons with another dressage trainer and several ladies turn up in FULL make up...

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I think that is compulsory isn't it?!

I provided the pro dressage trainers on my yard with entertainment yesterday when someone's horse tried to buck me off - they came to say well sat, we thought she was going to have you off!

 

[hannahkirkhill]

LOL

cheers . Think he does teach at Caythorp, but im not sure because he comes to mine every other tues!! - he does seam to travle around alot though so could be both??!!
Can you tell me how I get pics at the bottom??!!

 

[TarrSteps]

Whose riding do you like? Is there anyone around you think is particularly well taught?

Andrew Day sounds like my sort of fellow, just from hannabanana's description . . . although that might not be everyone's idea of high praise!

And why shouldn't Baydale want to improve? Pretty much everyone at the Olympics has regular training, lots of competitors at that level even have people - specialists in whatever discipline - who school their horses for them from time to time. What's the sense of jumping clean and still not being within spitting distance of winning? Seems silly to lose out on the one part that can arguably always be improved. So if she's going to play in that league, which she seems well capable of planning for, it seems sensible to consult a specialist.

Sorry to rant, I know everyone's joking but everyone I know who rides at the top level goes for some sort of help, at least from time to time. I think it's an investment.

 

[seabiscuit]

TarrSteps- we were only joking, of course we are not suggesting that Baydale shouldnt have dressage lessons, that would be ridicolous!!

Baydale, what about Jill Day? She trains Sharon Hunt, and other various pro people, and is based in Cambs but I see on her website that she does clinics over in Lincs.
I've not met her/watched her tho so have absolutely no idea about what shes like! But sounds like she is a very popular trainer!

http://www.jilldaydressage.co.uk/lessons.htm