Train With Us
Regular training
Warren works at a range of venues around the country and on the continent as well as at home near Newbury in Berkshire, UK. Individual training sessions as an individual or group focussing on flat, gymnastic, show jumping or cross-country can be arranged and tailored to you and your horses’ specific requirements.
Other options that give more of a chance to explore and develop what’s happening so horse and rider actually start to make progress involve day clinics or two day residential or non-residential training camps
Day Training
These involve two riding sessions and the format depends on the venue or the theme of the day. The idea is to get the horse and rider thinking and then develop a technique across the two sessions.
These can be gymnastic pole, line and fence work in the first session and then show jump course jumping in the second session. They can be a show jump session followed by a cross country session.
We also do a similar idea but focus it on young horses and another on less experienced riders.
Training Camps
The premise is across the two days we’ll do four riding sessions including gymnastic both days, show jump course jumping and cross country, again depending on the venue. There will be a theme of what needs to be developed ascertained in the initial session and that theme will be developed across the camp. These can be residential and non-residential depending on the venue.
Unicorn Trust Residential Training Camps (our favourite)
These training camps are a real privilege to be able to do. The facilities at the Unicorn Trust near Stow-On-The-Wold really let us do things and explore ideas in a way that we can’t do anywhere else in a very supportive environment.
These are a residential two-day training camp at Unicorn Trust near Stow-On-The-Wold. The school is probably 70*30m indoor. It is fully catered on the first day to lunch to the second day and includes one nights stabling and all facility hire. Many people get there the night before to settle in and we organise a group meal to get everyone together.
The riding is in groups of three or four. There are four riding sessions, two on each day. The first day is usually pole and gymnastic work with some course questions. With the space in the arena and the equipment we can set things up that don’t work anywhere else. This work is to get the horses thinking about their feet and develop rideability.
The second day is course orientated. We build a full course for the morning and another for the afternoon. This is about putting together Saturday’s work and building it into what we do when we practise and compete.
The four sessions generally allow us to explore things that are happening more and actually establish steps in development that is impossible to do in a single session or four disjointed sessions.
We work very hard to create a supportive learning environment with the evening being a good chance for everyone to relax and get to know each other a bit.
There is excellent accommodation reasonably priced with Unicorn Trust which is booked and paid for direct. There is hook-up available for lorries as well.
We have many students that make these part of their regular training schedule. We can make the developments here that we can then consolidate in the regular training through the year. We like it when people take the ideas we sow the seeds of in this environment and when they come back have established them and moved on to a different stage of development.
