16/06/2026
It’s hard to believe it’s really Nando😳
Some still frames from one of our last riding sessions with Anna Anna Marciniak | OneHorseLife and I am so happy 🥺
Find me on my phone rewatching it over and over again 😆
Crazy to think how much happiness riding this horse can bring me. If you had told me that a year ago, I wouldn’t have believed you.
Changing from my former GP professor Late Night to a talented but definitely not the easiest 4yo horse was a huge challenge. Not only because of my riding, but also because of the training system he had received before I got him.
Looking back, I think this is one of the biggest problems in the sport horse world today. So many young horses are started in exactly the same way, pushed through the same system, and expected to simply cope. The training often reveals which horses can survive it rather than truly teaching them how to develop into confident, athletic riding horses.
Nando was one of those horses who looked great as a 4-year-old. He jumped, he did everything that was asked of him. But as the effects of that training accumulated, both from before I owned him and during the early stages of our journey together, things started to fall apart.
By the time he was 5, he simply wasn’t functioning anymore. Not physically and not mentally. His rideability disappeared, his body became more difficult to use correctly, and the horse that had impressed me so much at the trial ride felt further and further away
It took almost 2.5 years at OneHorseLife HQ to rebuild him
Through OPP, RTRT, Relax Now, SpookyLess… the complete OneHorseLife system, slowly gave him back the things that had been lost: comfort, confidence, body awareness, relaxation, and joy in his work
And today, I finally feel like I am riding the horse I wanted all those years ago. Actually, an even better version of him
For the first time, I truly can tell I am starting to trust him..
If you’re looking at your horse and feel like something is missing… Comment this post “OHL” and I’ll message you personally. I’d love to learn more about your horse and help you create a roadmap based on the same OHL system that completely transformed Nando ❤️