Carr Equestrian - Claire Maries UKCC British Showjumping Coach

20/06/2025

SAY 👏IT 👏LOUDER 👏FOR 👏THE 👏PEOPLE 👏AT 👏THE 👏BACK

24/05/2025

Love this approach. Arthur was never really a bitey foal, but if he ever did have a little taste is was just to see what I was and I never chastised him for it.

01/04/2025

Just nipped across to 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands for a little training show this morning; now on the plane back after securing gold for GB in the Grand Prix.

01/03/2025

(Credit to Naomi Tavian) This is really interesting and shows how your saddle should always be fitted to you as well as the horse!

12/02/2025

02/12/2024

Stolen from TikTok, but a great lesson in humility and putting your horse first. A must watch for any horse owner; thought provoking and inspiring.

02/08/2024

⭐️Absolutely stellar performances from our 3 heroes! Tense to watch but worth the nail biting in the end! ⭐️

It's GOLD for Team GB! 🥇

Scott Brash and Jefferson bring it home for the British team, picking up just one time fault to put us on a score of two, ahead of the USA and France 🥳

24/07/2024

This post is NOT about Charlotte. Thanks 🙏

24/07/2024

‼️Yet more scandal in the horse world ‼️
This hurts my heart that our beloved sport continues to be tarnished by people who should be doing better.
I’m not going to wade in what happened or post the video, but to the people judging the whistleblower and questioning their motives; THAT is why people get scared to come forward, because they do often face vilification themselves. Berating the whistleblower only stops other people from being brave enough to speak out against abuse from professionals so we should be focusing on the perpetrator not the whistleblower. Often when these things are happening people are scared to question the motives of someone with seemingly more knowledge and success than them, especially as the rider was apparently a minor who was probably very much in awe of CDJ. We can all get on our soap boxes about what WE would have done in that situation but the fact is we weren’t in that situation. So let’s focus on cleaning up our sport and not victim shaming as that achieves nothing.

17/06/2024

This is an important read. The horse world would be a better place if people stopped to look within and stopped trying to justify harsh treatment to feel less guilt. And my pet peeve is people saying “He rushes his fences because he loves his job…” 🙄

31/05/2024

THIS 👇👇👇👌

Let’s repeat it for the ones in the back - or front, depends how you see it:

We can train and manage and condition our horses - but we can’t change the fact that they are horses.

Horses are prey animals. Their whole existence is wrapped around the ever on going play in nature between prey and predator.
Their whole being has evolved around the behavior and skills they need to play this game.

They played this game more than 50 million years.
The 5000 years of domestication won’t change that soon.

Your horse is supposed to spook from noise and sight.
Your horse is supposed to bolt when it feels threatened.
Your horse is supposed to buck off what’s on his back.
Your horse is supposed to search for food.
Your horse is supposed to be buddy sour.

All what we call „vices“ is simply a surviving mechanism, implanted deeply into the DNA of every horse.

Your horse lives in a human world, where he has no handbook for in his genes. He is just being a horse.

It’s your task to show him trust, patience, calmness, strength, assertiveness and fairness. But you have to be like this yourself.

You cannot expect what you are not ready to give.

It’s your responsibility to help your horse navigate.

Acts of aggression, confining him, calling him names, defining him as „naughty“, does not teach or proof any horse to behave the right way. It only shows your capability of teaching a horse.

There are so many techniques, methods, tools and trainers all defining „bad behavior“ and their solutions, all hustling and managing around a horse to bend and press it into a form. All of them, that claim to be so knowledgeable, so experienced, so wise, have forgotten, that the horse is just a horse.