How to Ride to Music With Claire Lilley

BHS Wiltshire

presents

How to Ride to Music

with Claire Lilley

Thursday 12 April 2012 at 6.30pm

Pembroke Centre,

Home Farm Lane, Wilton , Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8PJ

Design a floor plan

Interpret the music

Make good use of the arena

WOW the judge

Listen to music

Select the right piece for your horse

Add variety to everyday schooling

Relax when riding

Claire will also give a ‘riding to music’ display

pulling everything together at the end and inspiring us all to go out and ...RIDE TO MUSIC!

Ride to Music! Tickets: £20 in advance (£5 under 16s) from:

Jan McKernan, 'Rivendell', Nett Road, Shrewton,

Salisbury, Wilts, SP3 4HB

Please include cheque payable to BHS Wiltshire and an SAE

Tickets available on door at £25 per person

www.bhs.org.uk                                                 www.clairelilley.com

Jumping Horses

Our dressage horses love jumping- especially on the lunge without the rider on board! We do not have the luxury of an indoor school- this would be ideal as the horses could jump free, but as we have to jump them outside, it is safer to have them on a lunge line. Of course, it takes skill to move with the horse to allow them to jump without disturbing them. The handler must be good at running alongside the horse in order to keep the horse straight from the approach, over the fence, to the landing afterwards. Use a lunge cavesson to attach the line to- never the bit, as you would not want to accidentally touch the horse's mouth. Boots or bandages are wise to protect the horse's legs.

Lungeing

Lungeing should be part of every horse's training. It is invaluable for assessing your horse from the ground and building correct muscles in preparation for ridden work.

The Claire Lilley Lunge Kit consists of three items:

• The Chambon for stretching work




• Side reins for establishing a steady contact to the bit




• The Feeline which makes double lungeing on a circle and long-reining on straight lines easy.

For further details, go to http://www.clairelilley.com/

I have been riding Ruby for a few weeks now- we had our first canter today! She is Half-sister to new boy Louis. Its so satisfying bringing on the youngsters- they are so trusting!

We have a new horse- eight month old Louis - he is very cute!

Claire Lilley Lunge Kit

clairelilley58's photostream on Flickr.

Here are photos of The Claire Lilley Lunge Kit in action- a very effective way to build the correct muscles in perparation for ridden work.

Horse Training- Lungeing

Lungeing plays a very important part of every horse's training. It is important to learn how to lunge correctly, and to know which equipment to use. It is useful for building the correct muscles, and assessing your horse from the ground. The Claire Lilley Lunge Kit is specially designed to help you to lunge your horse correctly. There is no 'quick fix' to training a horse- it takes time and patience. See our main web site www.claireliley.com for full details.