Firstly, apologies for the lack of #trainingtips and #poleworkforponies blog posts this year - it was my intention to do a monthly blog post with some of our favourite polework exercises but the year ran away with me, so it has become a New Year's Resolution (one of many ;) ) for 2022 instead! All our polework exercises are ridden by MiniD (8 years old) on either Tangle (11.3hh) or Maisie (14hh), so if you have found that many of the polework layouts available online are more

So those on Facebook will have already seen the video to accompany this blog, but I'm running a little bit behind with a lot of things so far this year! I decided as well as the #trainingtip blogs, I would also try to write about #minidandtangle's regular polework sessions as then I can easily share the layout diagrams we used (they will continue to be shared as videos on the Facebook page too). Hopefully they will give you some ideas especially if you're stuck in the school

It seems a long time ago that our Supported Rider search was concluded, and our three Supported Riders for the 2021 season were chosen. We did a brief introduction to them on the main Demi Dressage Facebook page as well as the Supported Riders page of the website here Supported Riders | Demi Dressage and as promised now that we're into the 2021 cycle of events, here is a first introductory blog from them all. We hope to hear from them again very soon to see how their trainin

Hello and welcome to the new Demi Dressage website! I thought I’d start our shiny new blog by answering a couple of questions I have been asked in the past – why the name ‘Demi’, and why the colour orange? The definition of Demi is half, or small. In itself, this makes it the perfect descriptive word for our young riders! A demi-volte is also a dressage movement (and features in our own “Summer Ice Creams” Demi Dressage tests!) – it means ‘half circle’ (a volte is a small cir