Majestik Dressage LLC

13/03/2025

This is a cool idea!

With so much emphasis these days on the lack of horsemanship and skill in the upcoming generation, and more people simply going into competition rather than using the exam and apprenticeship routes, I wanted to see what ideas are out there – and what skill sets are needed to nurture all-round hors...

12/03/2025

Love baby horse updates!
Bubbles ( Honors Skyfall H2O bred by Kendra Hansis 🇺🇸)
She is coming 3yo and I’m so excited to get her started and see what she is about later this year!

Her raising farm ( Finest Hour Farm, they are amazing btw) reports that she is all about people, super sweet and trainable, with a touch of spice. My favorite combination! 💕

15/02/2025

Did you know, that in addition to dressage training and lessons, Jessica is also a certified Magnawave practitioner?!

Magnawave ( PEMF) has been an amazing addition to Jessica’s training program. Helping support the horses flexibility, soundness and strength. Comfortable happy horses make the best athletes!

Reach out if you would like to ad a PEMF session after your lesson!

14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day from our resident Strawberry!
Rope horses benefit from dressage basics as well!

11/02/2025

Flash back to this handsome guy!

The business’ name sake, Majestik, was one heck of a horse and taught me so much! M helped me learn how to help a big powerful LONG horse make a clean change. How train a talented but tricky horse to the Grand Prix. He and I had so many amazing firsts together and I miss him daily! So proud to keep his legacy alive with as I train and teach.

09/02/2025

In a bit of a winter slump? Need something on the calendar to stay motivated to work on your goals?
Jessica has schedule availability for local travel and virtual lessons!

Jessica Gaston, is a USDF Bronze, Silver, Silver Freestyle and Gold medalist, all achieved on self trained horses. She has a passion for producing confidence horses of any breed, while keeping good horsemanship as the first priority.
Jessica approaches each lesson with a goal centered mindset, striving to bring understanding of good basics to everyone no matter the discipline or level.

01/02/2025

2025 is bringing some pretty cool changes to Jessica’s and Ethan’s lives! Super excited to have a (hopefully) little horse crazy girl around.

Jessica is still planing to ride, train and teach throughout the Front Range area little one in tow!

28/01/2025

Winter time activities!

All the tack comes home in rotations to be cleaned, checked, and throughly oiled. Anything that needs repaired or replaced gets sent to the appropriate places.

I always use simple soap with lots of water, letting the tack dry before coating it several times with 100% Neatsfoot oil. I may have to do this more frequently now that we live in dry Colorado!

26/01/2025

Tito’s damsire!

Sometimes in the middle of his gangly 3yo stages I feel that “omg” canter

23/01/2025

Transitions, serpentines and counter-canter were the tools of the trade for the first day of this week’s two-day Adequan/USDF FEI-Level Trainers Conference. German dressage team coach Monica Theodorescu and U.S. dressage team Chef d’Equipe Christine Traurig put eight horses and riders through th...

22/01/2025

Did you know that Jessica Gaston is an ambassador for Free Ride Equestrian?!

Use the code Majestik at checkout for a discount when getting yourself some warm pants!

21/01/2025

Thinking about palm trees and training on this super cold day!
So grateful for the notes 💕

01/01/2025

Welcome 2025!

So excited to step into the New Year, with lots goals and new things happening in life!
What are some of your 2025 goals?

Picture of my drive home for attention, 2024 brought so many new people and experiences, I can’t wait to build on them!

24/12/2024

: Accuracy is free. Big moving horses are expensive, and if you ride a 100% accurate test on a normal mover, and someone else rides a 100% accurate test on a mega mover, you’re probably gonna get beat, and that’s that. But if you ride that same test, and the rider of the mega mover couldn’t find the letter she’s supposed to be riding to for love nor money, there’s your shot at the win. Accuracy is free, and does not require an expensive horse 🐴

📸 Sue Stickle

08/10/2024

Welcome Red Bull! A 2021 (Furst Dior x Glamordale) gelding. Aka “Tito”
Sourced by Jenny Wetterau, thank you for finding this boy and making the purchase smooth!

Huge thank you to Reese Koffler Stanfield for the connections and the support through the process of my first import!

And of course thank you to my amazing husband for saying “send it” to my crazy ideas and helping me make them happen!

27/09/2024

No different in a properly adjusted noseband and a “super loses floppy” one!

My pet peeve of gaping lose nosebands is now justified

**𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝗣𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗩𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗟**

𝗡𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗲’𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘁

MacKechnie-Guire, R*, Williams, J.M., Nixon, J., Fisher, M., Fisher, D., Walker, V., Murray, R., Clayton, H.M

𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 (read without a subscription):
https://beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evj.14420

For the past four years, we have investigated the pressures beneath different nosebands when adjusted from 2.0 to 0.0 finger tightness (0.0 finger adjustment so that the noseband was touching but not compressing the skin).

Poor noseband adjustment could create high pressures that may risk pain or tissue damage. This study is a step forward in providing quantitative data relating to pressures associated with noseband type and fit when adjusted to various tightness’s.

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀:

🐴No significant difference between noseband pressures when the noseband was adjusted from 2.0 to 1.5 finger tightness.

🐴Noseband pressures were highest on the mandible vs. the lateral aspect of the nasal bones.

🐴No differences were found in noseband pressures between the cavesson, flash or Swedish (crank) noseband types at 2.0 to 0.5 finger tightness.

🐴The Drop noseband had the lowest absolute nasal pressures (mandible pressures not measured) and significantly lower values than the other nosebands. We need to be mindful of the position of the traditional drop. More work needed.

🐴Noseband pressures were lower when ridden in trot, compared with when chewing a treat.

🐴Noseband pressures were cyclical (rise and fall) and not continuous – changing during the stride and the chewing cycle of the horse.

As always, this is a team effort. Thank you to our research assistants, riders, owners and horses.. Thank you to our funders, World Horse Welfare, British Equestrian, Canadian Sport Horse Association, The Worshipful Company of Saddlers and Hartpury University.

NB image taken from pilot testing and was not included in the main study. All noseband types are described in detail in the manuscript.