A bit more oomph
DON’T YOU JUST love them: the horses who possess bags of talent but like to choose when to give it their all and when to simply not bother.
The gorgeous Mr Cover may look supremely elegant, but his owner Kelly Marshall often struggles to get him to listen and apply himself. The answer, says her trainer and dressage rider Lili Brooksby-Dalby, lies in flicking the on switch and engaging his brain from the off.
Like a cheeky schoolboy, it’s a case of distracting Cover and channelling his energy into doing something fun. So with this in mind, today is going to be all about training Cover to think ‘bring it on!’ as opposed to ‘I can’t really be bothered’.
