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BHSQ Stage 4 Senior Yard Manager
BHSQ Stage 3 Coach in Complete Horsemanship (previously BHSAI)
BHS Ride Safe Trainer
EQ Bands Accredited Coach Former Primary School Teacher - B.Ed (Hons)

03/11/2026

✅️ A dressage lesson with Eva and Harry.
Eva would like to do some Intro and Prelim tests over the winter.
❓️What did we work on❓️
🔹️Exersices to improve Harry's longitudinal and lateral flexibility.
This work also develops the horse's strength and balance.
👍 A well balanced horse is more rhythmical and supple in the paces and through the transitions.
🐴 As Harry started to work from behind, he began lifting through his ribs and working into the contact.
🤓 We also practised free walk on a long rein which shouldn't be lethargic! Always worth doing well because it's worth double marks in a dressage test! 😜
If you'd like help and advice to improve your dressage scores, then please contact me 📣
🏇 Coaching up to BD Elementary 👌

02/11/2026

Holmside Hall Equestrian needs your support

We never imagined we would have to fight in the High Court to protect our home and everything we have spent more than 20 years building.

Holmside Hall means so much to our family, our customers, our apprentices and the wider equestrian community. We have already committed £20,000 of our own savings, but now we need your help.

Please donate if you can. If you are unable to donate, sharing our CrowdJustice page could help us reach someone who can.

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From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.

Ian, Danielle, Harriet, Peter & Denise

01/11/2026

✅️ A confidence building session at Ousterley yesterday with Ellie 😊
While jumping, Ellie had a nasty fall which injured her back. Although she recovered, she realised that her confidence wasn't what it used to be.
🆘️ She contacted me to see if i could help 👌
👀 After a short chat, I watched her ride in walk, trot & canter. All good 👍
🔹️ Next, I asked her to canter in light seat (aka forward position, XC position...)
⚠️ Bingo! The source of her confidence issues was revealed! Ellie was standing up in her stirrups, putting her weight onto her knees and she lost her balance forward.
🫟 So, back to basics to learn a balanced & secure jumping position which she practised in walk, trot, over canter poles. Ellie picked this up quickly and immediately felt much more stable and safer in the saddle. So she popped a few jumps too 😃
❓️The secret❓️
Keeping your hips slightly behind the line of your heels and weight in your stirrups. As soon as your pelvis drifts in front of your heels you lose your balance forward 🥴
✅️ Ellie worked hard, making a huge amount of progress in just one session, however it is something she must continue to consciously practice or muscle memory will put her back into old default position.
Well done Ellie 👏😃
Captions on the photos 🤓

30/10/2026

🎖Rider and horse of the week 🐴
Amanda and her beautiful TB gelding, Noakey 😍
Quite a background story to this duo.
👌Amanda has been on a weight loss journey and has lost an incredible 10 stone! Apart from all the health benefits it also meant she could fulfill her dream of giving an ex-racehorse a loving, forever home.
🏇 Losing so much weight has caused an issue with her riding though, because it has massively altered her centre of gravity and therefore her balance.
🫟 Then you start to lose confidence.
🔸️So far Amanda has had 2 lessons with me working on her position, with exercises and skills to help build strength in the correct muscles. Her improved posture and new muscle memory will help her re-gain and develop her balance.
🌀 The EQ Bands are a great piece of kit to help with this.
4 photos below.
3 of them Noakey clearly shows when Amanda is riding in balance.
Hopefully you will spot the photo where Amanda has momentarily lost her balance slightly.
Improve the rider, improve the horse!!
Amazing progress made in just 2 sessions and i'm looking forward to the next one.
Well done Amanda 👏 🤩

30/10/2026

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This is what happens when you try hard in your lessons and practise in-between them.
Click on the link above and take a look 😃
Well done Eva 👏🎖

27/10/2026

😃A confidence building session this morning with Karen and her lovely cob Bronson.
👍Karen is a competent rider, who for various reasons, has lost a huge amount of self-belief.
🧐 In my experience, nearly all confidence issues stem from feeling a lack of control over what might happen.
👌So, back to basics, establishing a balanced, secure seat, secure lower legs, controlled breathing, and pracising effective upward and downward transitions.
🐴 The result....as Karen became more effective and secure in the saddle, her confidence began to improve.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and little victories are important.
Well done Karen! You made so much progress in one lesson! 🤩

24/10/2026

Another jumping lesson this morning before all the weather descended!! 🌧🌪☔️😫
Eva and her new show jumping horse 'big' Bruce!🥰
He's huge but a fabulous schoolmaster👌
Today Eva was learning how to ask for a change of canter lead over the jump when changing the rein. Bruce was a bit spooky today but still did the job👍
Well done Eva 👏 😄

24/10/2026

8am start this morning to coach in the calm before the storm 🥴
Worth it though! An extremely productive lesson with Alysha and her loan horse AJ.
Alysha is hoping to do some affiliated showjumping events soon 👌

21/10/2026

🔹️️️Flatwork and EQBands
🔸️Dressage and test riding
🫟 Pole work and jumping
🚙 I come to you 😊

19/10/2026

A busy Monday!
Two lovely new clients and an energetic jumping lesson for Hetti and Ranger.
Ranger was a bit fresh today! 🥴 We did lots of work on calm, quiet, controlled approaches. It worked sometimes......but when Ranger 'locks on'.....😆
On this occasion he was so fast the photos are blurred!! 😲 A white knuckle ride for Hetti 🫣

Address

Houghton-le-Spring
Houghton-le-Spring

Telephone

+447582370223

Website

https://www.stephaniemcdearmidbhscoach.uk/

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