Cedarvale Spelling and Agistment

Cedarvale Spelling and Agistment Boutique property offers all post and rail individual paddocks, insulated and powered stables, riding facilities, storage, part /full care 30 mins to CBD.

04/03/2025

The first lot of horses moved here to escape flooding from the looming cyclone have settled in to their high and dry lush paddock.

14/12/2023

One of the home bred horses working this morning.

18/01/2023

If you have a photographic memory and can transpose this to your own horse in your mind it’s interesting to compare. It’s also interesting to consider the conformation of your horse in comparison to the movement that you know you get. Fabulous moving horses have excellent conformation. What appears to be excellent conformation doesn’t always make for a fabulous moving horse. The smallest subtleties can make a difference, especially if there is more than one. If your fabulous free moving horse can’t move the same way when you ride him, then perhaps it’s time to look at your gear and your riding, because he should be able to move just as well with you on board.
Thought for the day 😊

Fully booked for holiday full care agistment. Availability from 2/1/ 2023.
26/10/2022

Fully booked for holiday full care agistment. Availability from 2/1/ 2023.

17/08/2022

The movement of your horse’s hind legs can be broken down into the following three phases; thrust, reach, and carry.

Each phase is important and each one impacts the next, e.g. the more weight the horse takes during the carry phase, the more power he can produce in the thrust phase.

This knowledge is useful because it helps you in timing your aids and influencing the horse.

👉 EXAMPLE 1

During a leg-yield, the horse’s inside legs are required to step in front of and across his outside legs.

Therefore, if you apply your inside leg aid at the same precise moment as your horse lifts his inside hind leg (into the reach phase), then you can encourage the horse to step further under and across with that leg.

This will give you a greater degree of crossing during the leg-yield and a more sweeping stride.

👉 EXAMPLE 2

If you want to encourage your horse to take more weight behind, then apply your half-halt just as the horse’s inside hind leg is coming down to the ground (the carry phase).

At this moment, you can encourage your horse’s inside hind leg to take more weight.

👉 EXAMPLE 3

The horse’s canter stride starts with the horse’s outside hind leg. Therefore, to make a smooth transition from trot or walk into canter, apply your canter aids as your horse’s outside hind leg is in the reach phase.

This means that as that hind leg touches the ground (the carry phase), instead of it being another step of trot or walk, it will be the first step of canter.

This also encourages the horse to reach further under with that hind leg, producing a more uphill transition.

Give it a go!

Working at home here with a horse born and bred here.
04/08/2022

Working at home here with a horse born and bred here.

26/02/2022

All horses are tucked up warm and dry in their stables and flood free paddocks.

07/02/2022

Why do young horses need to be ridden with the neck stretched forwards and downwards?

The method to stretch the horse’s neck forward and downward is postulated by the German Training Scale, also known as the International Scale of Education or Classical Training Method. It is not an arbitrary invention but based on a simple rule of nature...

Read the full article here: http://www.equestrianlife.com.au/articles/The-International-Training-Scale-part-1

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16 Tilpawai Close
Cedar Creek, QLD
4520

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