‘Don’t rush training to meet deadlines’
HAVING no shows over the past few months has taken some pressure off and allowed me to discover a new philosophy in training. Putting competition dates in the diary creates a deadline, and with it an element of subconscious stress, and many of us find that we want to practise all the time.
But I have found that when it comes to teaching new things, horses don’t always have to actually achieve the task in hand to make progress
