International eventing star Lucinda Green brings her vast experience and knowledge to the first half of the first day of a two training level clinic session. Her exercises and no nonsense approach help these riders to succeed in an early spring outing cross country.

She now challenges them to jump the point of the corner from the point end. Having a question where the horse can’t see the exact take off simulates the confusion the horse may show at more difficult cross country fences like a coffin, quarry or water.

Lucinda now assigns a challenging course including jumping the point of a corner made of poles. She helps each horse and rider find the proper balance and speed to make the difficult turns on the course. She also emphasizes being able to stop on a straight line halt at the end of the course as a ...

Lucinda continues this clinic with a great explanation of the paradox of having your horse think for itself while listening to you. She gives a very informative talk about her main teaching points.

Each pair completes the warm up course, and Lucinda lets them know that at this height whatever happens is a learning opportunity for them. They introduce the corner by jumping one of the sides only.

They now start small warm up fences, looking for the communication between the horse and rider to be sharp and responsive. Lucinda emphasizes the quality of the canter and analyzes if the horse sees the fence and has the desire to take them to the fence. They end the course with a straight line h...

In this section, Lucinda explains and has the riders work on galloping positions. They gallop a large circle and practice coming back to a halt. She then explains her philosophy on why she loves Thoroughbreds over Warmbloods.

Lucinda Green, Olympic team silver medalist and international eventing star, brings us a new series with the first half of day one of a two-day clinic. They begin with an introduction of each horse and rider and a discussion of their concerns and experience.

Lucinda runs this group through training level cross country exercises. They first warm up on fences of their choice, then Lucinda explains her meaning for ELBOW. Each rider begins from the start box on a short course of their own as a warm-up.