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We kept on progressing!

After spending a few weeks doing the work in hand, I started introducing the lunging again. Without a chambon and sidereins. Just to see if we could bring some of that relaxation into the trot. You can see she is still not completely relaxing and stretching the...

I felt like giving up. After 6 months of lunging with barely any results I started to loose the fun of working with her. I gave her 2 months off during the summer where she could spend some time in the field. I had my hands full on the showseason with my Quarter mare Nikki. I was teaching a lot,...

Things were rusty and it made me feel down. I started to accept that I might not ever be able to ride this horse again. Though I knew I had bought a projecthorse, I felt like a failure that things weren't working out the way I wanted to. The opposites were huge. While Nikki was thriving, Pura was...

After 3 months of struggling with the riding I had enough. The osteopath had come back and she was still super sore on her back muscles. We took a look at her saddle and it turned out her saddle did not fit at all. A huge part of our problems came from that. Unfortunately my stubborness had also...

The first visit of the new instructor felt a bit strange. She first wanted to see Pura without a saddle to see how she looks. This was the first time anyone had said that to me, but it really showed me a new level how to approach a horse when you come for the first time. She explained to me that...

After discovering Pura her back was sore I had a new mission. Training her back muscles to become stronger. Little did I know how hard this was. I sat myself down behind my computer and started googling 'how to train the back muscles of the horse'. As it turned out there was no clear information...

So I started running into some problems with Pura. But the weird thing was that she was totally fine hiking out. So while I was having issues with the normal training, we could go to the natural park and ride for 3 hours and she was totally fine.

I really felt confused. How is it possible...

3 months after Pura had her baby we started training her. There were a bunch of kids at the yard happy to ride her and I trained her on the side. During this time I started noticing that my Quarter Horse Nikki really liked her. This was quite special because Nikki wasn't too crazy about...

After buying Pura things already started to become more of a puzzle. She behaved differently under the western saddle compared to the dressage saddle. She wasn't really jumpy or dangerous. But very forward and behind the bit. The canter was a struggle, she lacked a lot of balance and I tried to...

I met Pura at a small farmers yard in a small village near Amsterdam. After coming back to the city from working with a high level reining trainer I boarded my Quarter Horse named Nikki there. It was cheap, had an outdoor arena and most importantly.. 24/7 field time in the summer. It was time for...