Inside My Your Horse Magazine Feature – A Coach’s Perspective

Your Horse Magazine Feature.

There’s something rather special about seeing your work in print. In April 2025 I was featured in Your Horse Magazine as part of their Ultimate All-Rounder training series.

The feature came from a coaching session at Danesmoor, where I worked with a rider on exercises to develop balance, straightness and suppleness. It was an opportunity to show some of the conversations and decisions that happen during a coaching session, and how an exercise can be adapted in response to the horse and rider in front of you

Where the Feature Began

The coaching session took place at Danesmoor as part of the training Sarah and I offer for riders who bring their horses to stay for a few days.

The opportunity to work with Your Horse came through Cavago's PR team, who helped arrange the feature.

In the second part of the Ultimate All-Rounder series, we worked on straightness, communication and confidence through a series of schooling exercises.

We looked at how the horse was using both sides of his body, how the rider’s aids could support greater straightness and how changes in the exercise influenced his response.

As the session developed, the exercises gave us different questions to ask and opportunities to notice what changed. That is one of the things I enjoy about coaching: we can have a plan, while continuing to respond to the horse and rider in front of us.

The feature appeared in the April 2025 issue of Your Horse Magazine.