Foxhill Livery Yard

Full livery & Rehabilitation spaces available - 1st Sept

Having successfully completed several rehabs, we currently have some very rare space available at our Aldsworth yard.

Facilities inc
🦊livery tearoom
🦊 bathroom
🦊 tackrooms
🦊 rugstore
🦊 farrier/ vet/ treatment bay
🦊 hotwash and solarium
🦊 rubber matted stables
🦊 haybars
🦊extensive non restricted turnout
🦊Restricted movement surfaced and grass pens
🦊paired same s*x or individual turnout
🦊late night checks
🦊home produced forage
🦊individual feeding plan
🦊all weather floodlight arena
🦊Onsite equine therapist
🦊jumps, poles and cavaletti
🦊on site hacking
🦊on site working hunter/XC jumps
🦊CCTV
🦊Lorry and trailer parking
🦊Owner on-site
Plus many more
For a confidential enquiry, please DM us or email [email protected]

It is that time of year again Mark Upfield Photography LordingtonLavender Foxhill Livery. Fantastic horses and cannot wait to see this years shots

Thanks to the International Academy of Saddle Fitters and International student Ali for a lovely week. Always so much to analyse, discuss and review. We always seem to run out of time. Bumble kitten is exhausted from all she has learnt.

It is not long until we open the doors for lavender week and there are limited equine photo shoot dates available. This is such a unique experience, capturing the very special relationship between you and your horse. Dress up, be casual, wear the wedding dress or the prom dress, it is totally up to you. You can even swap between them all! Book now to avoid disappointment https://lordingtonlavender.co.uk/product/equine-photography/

Pony lollies at the ready ☀️☀️🕶️🕶️, sunscreen applied, fly masks on and heat mitigation plan implemented. This is how we roll 🐴❤️🦊

Sleep tight special boy. Humphrey, Humpers, Humpty, Humpty Dumpty. Such a gent and a gorgeous hunk of a horse. You had such character and made us all smile. We were blessed to know you. Sending much love to Danni & Sam 💔🌈

The shoulder-in is often referred to as the “aspirin of dressage” because it has many benefits for the gymnastic training of the horse. It is a lateral movement in which the horse is bending against the direction of travel and the inside hind leg steps closer to the front legs and closer to the outside hind leg when the angle is relatively shallow. When the angle is steeper it steps in front of the outside hind leg.

It is a highly effective tool for bringing the inside hind leg closer to the center of gravity and more underneath the rider’s seat. Once the inside hind leg has arrived under our seat, we can flex it with the help of the combined weight of the horse’s forehand and the rider. This is why it is a great stepping stone in compound exercises.

The shoulder-in helps to bring both hind legs closer together, which is a prerequisite for collection, as the Duke of Newcastle discovered.

It improves the lateral bend and supples the horse’s hips and shoulders.

However, it can only be truly effective as a gymnastic tool when the outside hind leg does not swing to the outside and away from the body mass. It has to step forward towards the center of gravity and support the body mass so that the horse’s back is able to lift and rotate in order to produce the correct lateral bend. When the angle between the horse’s body and the line of travel gets too steep, the outside hind leg no longer steps under the center of gravity, which results in a loss of balance and a loss of bend. �From a practical riding point of view it is therefore better to focus on feeling the outside hind leg underneath our outside seat bone as well as the correct lateral bend, rather than the crossing of the inside hind leg.

There are specific uses of the shoulder-in to to solve specific training problems and develop the horse.

It is both a movement and a component of exercises. �

Wide medial branch shoe for a horse with moderate desmopathy of the medial suspensory branch and medial oblique sesamoidean ligament.