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Richard Stehlik. Tony Curcillo. Celebrities Born in United States. Mark Salling TV Actor. Steven Perry Singer. By 4, the horses are well under way, learning to jump a variety of regular fences and natural obstacles. As is demonstrated in Facebook videos of Richard riding Rockette and Ace Of Diamonds at progressive stages in their training, obstacles are introduced into flatwork in a way that looks haphazard but is anything but.
His arena is well suited for this. Conventional fencing borders about half of the ring. A steep upward grass slope edges another side. There is a sunken road grob in between the hill and the railroad tie that separates the grass area from the arena.
A 2-foot-6 bank serves as an exit or entrance option to the grob on one end. The arena is filled with everything from low, angled poles and tiny crossrails to grand prix jumps set at solid heights. In a video that show Roxette being warmed up for what would be her first day of jumping, Richard weaves the mare casually at the trot and canter past and around everything, including up and down the slope, through the grob with no jumps or poles and, from a walk, nudges her off the bank.
Her first actual jumps were leaving the ring over the railroad tie with a jump pole behind it and returning to the ring by coming down the slope and, from the walk, jumping a 1-foot pole set on cavalletti blocks. Within just a few lessons, Rockette is doing similar patterns but this time with a triple combination of crossrails in the grob, a pole set a few inches off the edge of the bank and a crossrail following a few strides after coming down the bank.
These simple add-ons introduce her to a triple combination, teach her to jump up off the bank, rather than down from it, and to rebalance herself quickly after the bank. All with minimal fuss or drama. Schooling at home for her Spruce Meadows debut in June, she faced bigger fences and many more of them in quick succession. You know when they are going to spook, what their strengths and weaknesses are, so you can accentuate or eliminate them.
When you sell to someone like Ashlee, who consistently produces quality results, that reflects well on you as a breeder. When you breed horses, you really take on responsibility for their whole lives. In , grand prix rider Richard Spooner and his wife, Kaylen, took the innovative step of launching a crowdfunding campaign with hopes of purchasing a going grand prix prospect.
Christened Rockette after the Rockethub. The Spooners knew they were on to something when a minute video of Kaylen giving Rockette her first free longe drew views. The session of prepping the mare for her Spruce Meadows debut drew 15, views.
Riding proactively, instead of waiting for the horse to do something and reacting, was important for everyone, especially those on hot horses. For the tense and spooky horses, Richard told riders to start on a large circle in the middle of the big arena.
Being focused on the rider distracts the horse from whatever is going on around him and enables productive flatwork. Bend equals control, he said. Using an invisible microbend on a straight approach to a jump helps to maintain the control and frame.
Richard repeatedly coached riders to push, rather than pull, their horses into the inside bend. He said this creates the worst possible frame for a jumper: head up, legs down.
Working the horse one side at a time is also a counterpunch to horses who are heavy in the hand. Horses become numb to constant pulling, he said, and a stiff rider produces a stiff horse.
On the clinic's final day, riders, including Maggie Kehring, applied the previous three days' flat and gymnastic work to a modified two-round Nations Cup. Two other useful tools for getting into the machine are using acceleration and deceleration aids to produce extensions and collection within the trot and canter. At their subtlest, these aids are the take-and-give cues needed to let the horse know what you want and instantly reward the right response with an ease of pressure.
Applied more emphatically, these same aids are used to race across the finish line in a timed jump-off or rebalance and decelerate for a tight turn. These types are often ridden with a timid leg for fear of setting them off.
If your horse balks, spurts away or otherwise resists the leg pressure, keep it on for continued forward motion, using the bend to maintain control. The cure is learning to use everything except a heavy or sharp hand to maintain control.
Push, not pull. Day 2 of the clinic focused on gymnastics, including two "cartwheel" triple bounces, a straight triple bounce and an oxer, none more than 2 feet high. Although all the riders returned on Day 2 with more active warm-ups, Richard warned them to avoid abandoning that progress the minute they headed toward a jump.
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