Aird Equestrian

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Small but mighty! Aird Equestrian had a great start to the 2016 show season, with only 3 horse/rider teams. Bring on the new season!

Unmounted rider exercises to improve your seat: Strengthen & straighten your own core. So whilst we’re looking a little at strengthening the horse’s core, and before we get onto ridden exercises, let’s do the same for the rider. There’s growing research evidence that improving your seat...

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Congrats to Lauren and Lord Concierto, who took home Champion in the 3'6" Jr/Am Gateway Series!

Team Aird takes home the title of Sort-a-Thon Champions 2016! Today we had 3 hours to sort as much food as we could, and ended up sorting 7 skids of donations! Not to mention Jehna set the record for finding the Most Expired Food (expired Jan 2003!). We had a great time team-building and helping out those less fortunate.

(PS our theme was Hawaiian ;) )

Tiffany Foster: My Life on the Team - Horse Collaborative Canadian show jumper Tiffany Foster is the top-ranked female rider in Canada and, at age 31, has a Nations Cup record that rivals many veterans. In just five years, she’s ridden for Canada on no fewer than 22 Nations Cups teams. With the Olympics just months away, this protege of Eric Lamaze is a le…

5 Qualities of the “Coachable” Rider Every instructor has a dream student. They often refer to them as "coachable," but what does this really mean?

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George Morris - Position is the Foundation. If You Think It's for Pretty, You're Dumb OK, so that headline might be a bit strong, but it's really what the essence of Day 2 was about. Oh, and to clarify, the Pretty/Dumb comment was uttered when one of the riders was wiping George's boots after George mounted to give a demonstration.  George was saying that wiping one'