Stephen Clarke. Any views?

Hi,

My OH is a member of the TTT and regularly trains with Stephen. He is a really lovely man, encouraging, supportive and very inspiring.

He has worked with my OH with a variety of different types of horses and each one has gone fantastically.

The last time we went we took Diva and Blitz and we were thrilled with the lessons.

He is very calm and works through simple patterns which are very easy to reproduce at home but also very effective at getting horse soft, round and through.

It is also great to have a judge's perspective as well as a trainer's input and he is able to combine both. I firmly believe that it is through Stepen's input that both horses have been so successful this year.

He is expensive but then he has a wealth of experience in both terms of comeptition and judging so feel he is well worth it. I think we pay around £70 a lesson and usaully have two with each horse.
 
Diva is 6-y-o working Medium competing Nov/Elem we have had her a year and she has been to two clinics with him.
Blitz has worked with Stephen for 2 years since he was a 3-y-o.
OH has trained with Hils who is 14 coming 15 and competing at PSG for 3 years with him, his previous owner also trained with Stephen so he has known Hils since he was a spring chicken!
 
Never had a lesson with him but watched him at dressage clinic once, really enjoyed it, he explained everything in terms even a novice like me could understand and was funny as well. He then did a dressage display on what he called his playhorse (built by a committe I think he described it), all I can say is I wanted a playhorse like that. Clinic was a few years ago now but was one of the reasons I decided I wanted to do dressage.
 
Echo Worried1 in that Stephen is one of the nicest, quietest most unassuming trainers I've ever met.

If he's training near you, go for it!
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Watched some of his sessions, always looked fabulous and my friend who used him loved him. Would love to use Stephen if I ever got the chance!!
 
Oh I just loved my lesson with him.
I had to share it with a girl who did advanced eventing. I was just doing Novice dressage (unaffiliated) and was having problems with my trot work.
I felt like an idiot. The other rider was a cow bag. Very rude, very snooty.
The lesson was great and we learnt loads in one hour.
The end of the lesson was my favourite as he said "I don't think it is a case here of who is the better rider but who has the better horse". Snooty cow left arena in a big big mood. I was delighted he put her in her place.
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