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Dressage rider, Bert Sheffield’s
Equestrian Life
As well as my more advanced horse, Wonderboy (Whoop), I have another dressage horse, Double Agent, known as Darcy. She is my little secret weapon! Darcy tootles along in the background but one day I will bring her out for the world to see.
Darcy is a five-year-old AES by Donnersohn that I bought three years ago. I saw a photo of her as a foal on the Morgan Equine website and fell in love but believed she was sold. Then I went down to see Suzy two years later and she was still there so it must have been fate and a deal was done!
does polework and very small jumping as well as flatwork. She could easily get switched off so I think variety is important.
In the school, all her work is centred around the German system known as ‘the Scales of Training’. With a horse at the beginning of its training, like Darcy, the first three scales- Rhythm, suppleness/ relaxation and contact, need to be established before anything more flashy is done. Impulsion, straightness and collection come later once the basics are second nature.
Rhythm is the first commandment. For this the horse must be ‘in front of the leg’, ready to go forward for the rider and then the rider can find the right rhythm for each pace for that individual horse. The speed of the rhythm, the tempo, may become steadier as the horse gets stronger and better balanced but it must always be active and forward-thinking.
Darcy
So Darcy came to live with us and in her three-year-old autumn she was broken by my friend Helen Brown. Since then, she has had a very leisurely start to her career – the ultimate pick-up/put down horse. Darcy works 3 days a week most of the time apart from when Whoop is on the run-up to a major competition and then she has a holiday. This suits her as she is still quite immature and usually very laid back. Darcy is lunged, goes off hacking and
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Once the horse is travelling freely over the ground the next step is to encourage it to relax and allow its muscles to be supple within an energetic rhythm. This is done
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Riding Darcy
with circles, frequent changes of rein and transitions between the paces. The horse starts to bend around the rider’s leg and soften through the back and jaw. I like to start gentle leg-yielding and shoulder-fore exercises to help the horse learn how to use its body. This is also the stage to start thinking a little bit about straightness, checking that the back legs are behind the front legs in transitions, especially downwards ones, not stepping wide.
By this point, the horse will be accepting guidance from the legs, seat and hand, so putting it more securely on the bit is rarely much
of a problem. By riding forward on a circle and taking a slightly more positive feel on the reins, most horses will round-up into a ‘baby’ outline at this stage. On a day when this is all working well, I introduce a little sitting trot. This is also the point at which I start asking the horse to stretch down and round.
As Darcy has had a fairly slow start, she is now approaching the end of this first stage of very basic work and I hope to get her out competing sometime soon, when there is a gap in Whoop’s busy schedule
Lungeing Darcy
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