Covert Equestrian LLC

03/24/2025

Fond Utan Memories ❤️

09/10/2024

“The FEI Technical Delegate is a representative of the FEI, someone who needs to make sure that everything runs according to the rules and requirements,” Guilherme Jorge tells WoSJ about a role he played at the 2024 Olympic Games. All photos © Jenny Abrahamsson for World of Showjumping.

08/07/2024

Love this!!!!!❤️

02/16/2024

Best of luck to the new owner of the beautiful and talented DSH Phoebe van de Peonjaard Z🦄🚀
Thanks as always to Deluxe Sporthorses for another fantastic horse and thanks to all involved in making this happen.

02/02/2024

Congratulations to the new owner of the lovely Dee Lane Z💕. We can’t wait to watch this new pair develop together in the hunter and equitation ring! Thanks to all involved in making this super match.

12/20/2023

Wise words from a top horseman.

Jos Kumps is not only known as the trainer of top sporthorses but also riders. "Weather I like...

07/07/2023

Thank you Woody❤️

Ocala, FL – A field of the world’s best athletes suited up this evening to tackle Peter Grant’s (CAN) intricate tracks in the $50,000 UF Veterinary Hospital Grand Prix Qualifier CSI3*. Eleven different nations were represented, but at the end of the night, it was Canada’s Angela Covert that ...

07/01/2023

05/26/2023

Developing Empathy

Frustrated by your horse? Try this---

Go for a run. Yes, you, human rider. Intersperse your run with sets of push-ups. See how long it takes before you lose athletic buoyancy, before you “just can’t.”

Fatigue in a horse, which is pretty much the same thing that you just felt, creates leaning, tripping, stumbling, slow reactions, poor coordination, lugging on the hand, all sorts of what you may be mistaking for “bad behavior.”

The tired horse will feel just like a “disobedient” horse. And then what will happen to that horse if the rider doesn’t tune into the horse’s fatigue? You know exactly what will happen to the horse. It will get drilled on. Drilled on just when the exact opposite should happen.

Trainers who lack the ability to sense what the horse is going through are among the worst drillers, and they create tense, scared, resistant horses, and they then do something even worse, they blame the horse.

Change your mind set. Think how YOU would feel if you had gotten beyond your limits and then got ground on and punished to fix your bad behavior.

You think I’m kidding? You think this isn’t going to happen today, all across the world where people ride and drive horses? That unfit for the task horses won’t be cranked and pressured? Dream on.

The best thing that you can do if your goal is to become a competent trainer is to constantly be aware of your own frustration meter. And stop before you create damage, physical and emotional injury and distress. Get a little and end on that. If even a little seems elusive, DO NOT GRIND. Go walk, try again tomorrow. Don’t add fear and anxiety to the training process.

I will say this one more time---“Don’t add fear and anxiety to the training process.”

Why am I saying this so often? Because if I had learned this decades sooner, I would have been a far better trainer and horse person---That’s why. Learn, if you are capable of doing so, from the mistakes that others have made. Do not drill your horse.