Tumbarumba Adult Riding Club

31/05/2026

How to spend an evening at Indigo 3PE event

31/05/2026

What a great weekend of competition at Indigo’s 3PE competition- level 4 champion was Heather Johansen - a well deserved win. Other ribbons won by Lorraine Barton, Pat Denholm and Susan Qunnell. A huge congratulations to everyone. A great evening spent with great company too

25/05/2026

21/05/2026

Rally Sunday. 10am start. We will be incorporating some obstacles with dressage to improve your 3PE style scores and your dressage scores.

21/05/2026

Thursday's training.

Straightness and bend.

It's quite common for riders to be asking their horse to bend before they have straightness.

Always work on the straightness first so you have your horse between your legs and hands in a balanced rhythm.

Once you have this you can then ask for the bend.

Remember it's uniform bend so flexion through the neck and poll with bend from their ribcage around your inside leg. The curve has to go from the poll to the tail to achieve uniform bend rather than neck bend and nothing else through their body with quarters trailing.

You just want to be able to see their inside eye by opening the inside rein and supporting with the inside leg so your horse stays upright.

The flexion through the neck has to be comfortable for them rather than forcing their neck to bend with a strong inside rein and losing their outside shoulder which puts them into an uncomfortable position and will also be losing balance.

Steering has to come through both reins and not just the inside rein. Your outside rein controls the amount of curve you are asking for rather than letting go too much through the outside rein so then having too much inside bend. Your inside rein is giving some direction and guidance, it's not pulling them round.

Your outside leg slides slightly back to behind the girth then guides and pushes your horse's body through the turn.

Use your body by sitting up nice and tall with keeping your weight central over your horse's back. Turn through your body into the direction with a change of weight but remember to stay tall rather than to lean.

I hope you are found this helpful and please let me know if you have any questions.

Many thanks.

18/05/2026

Finally some photos from our recent 3PE competition. Msg us is you woulk like a high res of any of your photos.

09/05/2026

What a wonderful day for a trail ride -