Harriet was awarded runner-up for the 2015 KBIS Instructor of the Year and has spent the last few years establishing herself as a trainer and coach to riders in and around Yorkshire.
Based at Granary Hall in Everingham, near York, Harriet is kept busy each week with a host of riders coming and going for lessons and training as well as running regular camps and clinics. With experience teaching riders of all levels, Harriet offers lessons in all disciplines, and takes the time to tailor all lessons to suit the rider and their horse so they will be sure to gain some invaluable advice, no matter what their aims and ambitions. Training with Harriet is more than just a lesson. First of all she will help you to set your goals, advising you to work towards realistic goals but pushing you to aim for bigger ambitions than what you may have thought achievable. Harriet believes in being able to understand what each client is trying to achieve and how exactly they are going to achieve it before any practical work begins. Harriet spends time videoing her clients, which is a great way to help you realise where you are going wrong and it gives Harriet the chance to talk you through your riding as you see it in real time. She will break down all the video documentation and analyse your whole performance, from the warm up to the dressage test or show jumping round. This allows Harriet to highlight the positives and then approach the bits that need to be worked on, making sure that you, as a rider, can recognise where you are going wrong and what to improve on. You will be given homework as it is important to follow through what you have just learnt in a different environment without having your trainer at hand. Harriet will then follow up and track your progress, altering your training plan where appropriate. Drawing from the knowledge picked up throughout hours of coaching from world-class riders and trainers, Harriet tries hard to solve any problems as opposed to just treating the symptom, as this will inevitably lead to falling back into old habits. All the facilities at HMB Equestrian are used to ensure you gain maximum benefit from your lesson and include a floodlit arena with a Martin Collins surface, a cross-country training field with a variety of fences from 50cm to 1.05cm including banks, ditches, skinnies and corners, and a grass dressage arena which is perfect for test riding practice and great for those horses who have never seen white boards before. Harriet keeps the training at HMB equestrian exciting: “I always try to keep training sessions varied, to keep the rider enthusiastic and stop the horse from becoming stale. We might go and do dressage in the cross-country field so that the horse learns to perform in a more exciting and distracting environment” said Harriet. |
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