It’s essential that every horse owner knows his or her horse’s normal, healthy resting temperature, heart rate, respiration (breathing) rate, and other vital signs and have trained the horse to allow handling for assessment of vital signs.
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Going on competition is fun, but it also can be very stressful if you feel unprepared. This workshop provides useful tips and guidelines to be perfectly prepared to go on competition and focus on your performance.
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Fitting saddles is like fitting a child’s shoe, it needs to be done correctly to allow for movement without pinching or pain. This practical workshops offers tips and basic understanding of saddle and tack fitting. We walk through the stables and practice the fitting on various horses. You will learn the names of parts and pieces of your tack and how to adjust the tack to fit your horse nicely. In this practical workshop the different saddles, bridles, pads and bits will be discussed in order to improve overall performance.

While our horses’ fitness is a high priority for most riders, not all of us take our own fitness so seriously. But times are changing and riders at every level are realizing that rider fitness plays a major role if you want to be successful. Being fit for the task on hand also helps to prevent injuries.
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This clinic gives you new insights into your seat and position. The rider becomes more aware of his seat and posture and the parts of the posture that need attention. This clinic starts with a theoretical introduction with videos followed by a mounted and an unmounted part.
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The purpose of this workshop is to describe the key features of the anatomy and conformation of the dressage and show jumping horse. To evaluate a horse’s conformation, you must know several common names associated with horse anatomy.
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All horses are different and therefore, they have various nutritional needs. Age, workload, breed, height and external factors play a role formulating a proper diet. This workshop provides information on nutritional needs, roughage, minerals and trace elements.

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Training physiology is the study of the acute responses and chronic adaptations to a wide range of exercise conditions. In order to reach the desired results and goals in your training, you must have knowledge of the basic principles of training physiology.
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This workshops provides insight into how horses learn and gives you valuable tools to use in your own training. First you need to understand how horses learn. Horses can learn in three ways: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and habituation.
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Lameness is a change in a horse’s gait caused by a physical injury or an imbalance in the horse’s conformation. It is a symptom that something is abnormal in the horse’s locomotion. In this workshop you learn to recognize, manage and prevent lameness.
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