Equestrian Heroes
Your Online Equestrian Centre
Created by Alison Kenward, BHS Senior Coach
A place to keep learning with your horse before, after and between rides.
Come in and take a look around.
Inside the Online Equestrian Centre you'll find different places to visit.
Come in after you ride, bring a question about your horse, find something to try next time or spend five minutes learning about something that has caught your attention.
New here?
Begin with Rider Know How.
Six weeks of ridden exercises and learning about balance, relaxation, canter, throughness, impulsion and preparing to ride a test.
Pick up Rider Know How at Reception
Dressage School Online
Do you have five minutes?
Put the kettle on and visit the Dressage Café, explore the arenas or come in and see what’s happening around the centre.
Enjoy riding. Keep learning with your horse.
Heroes Riding Club
What have you and your horse been doing today?
Come into the Rider Lounge and talk about your horse, ask a question, share what you are working on or join a conversation that interests you.
When you want to think something through, visit the Library. There is guidance to return to before you ride, after you ride and between rides — including the moments you want to untangle, remember or celebrate.
Talk about horses. Think things through. Keep learning together.
Visit Heroes Riding Club
Meet Alison
I’m Alison Kenward, a dressage rider and coach with more than 30 years’ experience helping riders and horses learn together.
I’m a BHS Accredited Professional Coach, British Dressage Judge and UKCC Level 3 Coach. Equestrian Heroes has grown from the things that have always interested me as a rider and coach: how horses and riders communicate, what we notice when we ride, the questions that follow us home, and how learning continues between one ride and the next.
I’m still learning too. Horses make sure of that.
Take the Online Equestrian Centre with you
Open Equestrian Heroes on your phone when you have five minutes, after you ride, or when you want to think things through.
Visit Dressage School Online, return to Rider Know How, join the Rider Lounge or find something you saved for later.
Your Online Equestrian Centre, wherever you happen to be.
Download The App
Achieve Dressage
Recognise your progress with your horse.
Keep the moments that matter, notice what is changing and understand more about what made a difference.
Achieve Dressage gives you somewhere to record those experiences and see your story developing over time.
Equestrian Inspiration for the Season Ahead
Still dreaming?
What would you love to experience with your horse?
A lesson, an adventure, a competition, something you would like to learn or simply more of the ordinary days you love spending with your horse.
Achieve Your Equestrian Dream gives you questions and prompts to put some of those thoughts into words and imagine what could come next.
