Jennie Loriston-Clarke at Hadlow College

I went and thought it was excellent-a refreshing change to see a trainer not afraid to be bold in front of an audience and behave just as she would at home and most of all "normal" horses that didnt always get it right and I liked the way she showed what to do whereas most of these demos its and now we teach them tempi changes and they go off and do them, she showed how they start them etc which I found really useful...second one was a double for my lad in looks and ability!!!! but why dont they run these things when its warm though!!!
grin.gif
 
glad to hear you enjoyed it. definitely an improvement on when i saw her do one at Rodbaston a few years ago, then. i really expected to be impressed, but wasn't at all. one of her stallions was being ridden with the numnah ending well under the back of the saddle, so the rider's weight is on a ridge on the spine (real pet hate of mine, very stupid and careless and can do a lot of harm), and she didn't say anything about it. one of the riders was very harsh, unnecessarily so, and she left him to it, on one of her stallions. hmm.
and when someone in the audience asked how she kept her stallions so obedient, she advanced on the stallions (standing quietly in a semi-circle facing her, with riders on) and started waving her arms in their faces and yelling at them to get them to back up! the riders were nearly as shocked as the horses tbh. she said that's how you keep their respect. hmm.
 
Didn't go but did to a demo years ago and she was very good.
She walked in on a barely backed three year old who was full of spooks, she taught us how to collapse your weight on the horse's back like a sack on spuds and see the reaction, and instantly it calmed and was unworried.
We have used that trick so many times since and with the same result every time.
I love going to demos like that, you pick up such little things that stay with you for ever.
 
I thought she was great, a real old fashioned horse woman. She gave us lots of laughs, and the horses were lovely, but.....

I thought she was really horrible about Chester the son in laws event horse, I mean he was lovely and went in a way that most people dream about and she was still slagging him off!!

My trainer hates her and attended the judges training seminar held before the demo, she said J L-C was awful and had one of the riders in tears.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top