RIDER BIOMECHANICS
RIDER BIOMECHANICS
RIDER BIOMECHANICS
RWYM ARTICLE 10 The horse shown in this photograph was owned by a friend of the rider. I do not know the horse’s age, but know that this partnership were only together for a very short time, and that the horse has just been sold. The parting has left her rider feeling the sadness that…
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RWYM ARTICLE 9 This sweet little horse is an Irish Draft X Conemmara gelding who is rising six. His present rider has owned him for two years, and feels that whilst he has improved from the ‘upside down’ horse that she bought, he does not yet stretch his topline in the way he ideally should.…
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RWYM ARTICLE 8 This nice five year old horse is being warmed up for a competition, and has been photographed in a moment of inattention. (Given the circumstances, it is likely to have been a whole session of inattention, but we can always give our rider the benefit of the doubt!) His ears are pricked,…
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RWYM ARTICLE 7 This photograph shows a five and a half year old mare, who is a Dutch Warm Blood X Thoroughbred. She was backed at three, turned away for a year, and started again at four. Her rider states that ‘we have had a few setbacks, with back/muscle problems resulting in some nappyness and…
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RWYM ARTICLE 6 This horse is an Irish Draft x (presumably with thoroughbred). He is a nine-year-old gelding who has been with his present owner for eighteen months. She has competed him in preliminary and novice dressage tests, and has also done some elementaries. She does not tell me whether she has affiliated him, or…
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RWYM ARTICLE 5 This horse, who bears the apt name of Paddy McDuff, is a 14.3hh Irish Draft x Conemmara gelding. His rider bought him at four, after he had been backed in Ireland and hunted lightly. She tells me that he was then very ‘upside down’, but that over the last three years his…
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RWYM ARTICLE 4 This young lad is riding an attractive little mare, who is five years old, and who has done well in coloured horse show classes and in novice jumping.As in the majority of photographs, some things are working well, and others less so. At this phase in the trot stride, it is difficult…
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RWYM ARTICLE 3 This photograph has been sent from New Zealand, and it shows a four year old Andalusian/Anglo Arab cross mare. She was bred and started by her rider who describes herself as ‘older’. She took to dressage a couple of years ago after her children had come up through the Pony Club system,…
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RWYM ARTICLE 2 ARTICLE 2 – RIDER BIOMECHANICS This horse is an eleven year old, 14.1 hand Welsh Cob gelding. His rider has taken him into a lot of unaffiliated shows, and wants to do affiliated competitions. At home she is working him to medium level – he manages most of the lateral movements, and has…
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RWYM Article 1 This photograph has been sent in from America, by a reader who has lived most of her life in Spain. Her horse is a pure bred Spanish Andalusian stallion who is five years old, and he looks to me like a very handsom chap. Whilst I have little experience with Andalusian horses,…
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