Sasha Whitaker Equine Training

29/04/2026

Our eventing day camp is now full! If you missed booking on please join the waiting list. If there's enough interest we'll run another one soon!

✨Meet you coaches for our Spring Eventing Day Camp✨ (Spaces Still Available)

⭐Lisa Morris FBHS UKCC4 BSc(Hons)⭐

I have owned and produced my own competition horses for 40 years and evented to advanced level. I coach riders of all ages and abilities in all 3 disciplines and very much aim to deliver fun filled yet educational sessions for both the horse and the rider.

💬For me, confidence for both is the key to progress and success. My current clients age range is from 7 to 74 and horses from the very beginning of their careers to the very end of their ridden life. 💬

⭐Sasha Whitaker BHS APC, BHS Senior Coach, Centre 10 Advanced Coach⭐

I have worked in the equestrian industry for over 30 years, with much of my experience centred around horse welfare and young horse production.

Whether off‑horse mindset work is completely new to you or something you’ve explored before, I can help you reflect, refocus and feel mentally prepared for your cross‑country session.

💬I’ve known Lisa for over 40 years, and together we’ll deliver a fun, supportive day. Whether you arrive feeling nervous or excited, you’ll leave with greater clarity, confidence and a real sense of achievement.💬

Book your spot for our Spring Day Eventing Camp below: 🔗
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bhseastmidlands/2121306

28/04/2026

Last week was a busy one I was at NAF Five Star British Riding Club Championships for the British Horse Society with the mechanical horse Robo Cob, giving back-to-back short coaching sessions throughout the day, helping riders explore position, balance and feel, though I did just have chance for a cuddle with this little guy

23/04/2026

✨Meet you coaches for our Spring Eventing Day Camp✨ (Spaces Still Available)

⭐Lisa Morris FBHS UKCC4 BSc(Hons)⭐

I have owned and produced my own competition horses for 40 years and evented to advanced level. I coach riders of all ages and abilities in all 3 disciplines and very much aim to deliver fun filled yet educational sessions for both the horse and the rider.

💬For me, confidence for both is the key to progress and success. My current clients age range is from 7 to 74 and horses from the very beginning of their careers to the very end of their ridden life. 💬

⭐Sasha Whitaker BHS APC, BHS Senior Coach, Centre 10 Advanced Coach⭐

I have worked in the equestrian industry for over 30 years, with much of my experience centred around horse welfare and young horse production.

Whether off‑horse mindset work is completely new to you or something you’ve explored before, I can help you reflect, refocus and feel mentally prepared for your cross‑country session.

💬I’ve known Lisa for over 40 years, and together we’ll deliver a fun, supportive day. Whether you arrive feeling nervous or excited, you’ll leave with greater clarity, confidence and a real sense of achievement.💬

Book your spot for our Spring Day Eventing Camp below: 🔗
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bhseastmidlands/2121306

20/04/2026

What I enjoy most about coaching is working with people over time.
It’s the small changes, the growing confidence, and the trusting relationship between horse, rider and coach.

15/04/2026

I’m always looking for ways to keep learning and developing, both in my equitation and in how I coach. For me, equitation goes far beyond just riding, and good coaching is about much more than simply giving instruction.

Yesterday’s Centre10 Spring Camp was a fantastic reminder of that. The theme was building confidence, with inspiring presentations from some of the UK’s leading sports psychologists and practical demonstrations from Jason Webb. These days are always packed with takeaways and offer a wonderful chance to reconnect with such a supportive coaching community.

Pictured here with my great Centre 10 friend, Diana Burgess Equestrian

06/04/2026

Quote from Diana Burgess Equestrian If “Carlesburg” made 4 year olds 👌❤️❤️

I’m in love with this mare. Why hasn’t anyone even called? She has been easy in every way. She loves her work and to learn. It would be easy to do too much with her but we haven’t as she’s still growing ( over an inch since January)
She is definitely a horse of a lifetime that really could do anything with a fantastic brain and endless ability. Everyone who has met her loves her.

She would suit a young rider or a lady… I can’t collect more horses 🤦🏻‍♀️

05/04/2026

I haven’t been very consistent with posting on here, but I’m changing that.
I’ll be showing up once a week.
Not perfectly, just consistently.

14/01/2026

I first shared this post 10years ago. Back then this was not a popular philosophy! Give this post a like if you now agree 👍 👍
https://www.facebook.com/share/17pqHDxE2n/

The curse of perfectionism, and the power of "pretty good."

All over the world, every day, riders are schooling horses.

Horses do not "want" to be schooled. If you think that, you are a dreamer, still thinking like an eight year old, which is OK if you are 8, not so productive as you become more mature.

And good trainers know that training is "hard" on horses, just as soccer practice or track practice or basketball practice or any sport that requires running and high energy expenditure is "hard" on human athletes.

It is called athletically induced discomfort, and any human who is any kind of athlete will remember (or currently be experiencing) the pain of tired muscles, racing heart, panting breath, the feeling that running hard down that lacrosse field "one more time" near the end of a game is taking her/him out toward the end of her/his strength and endurance.

But human athletes have goals, like earning a varsity letter, or having the esteem of the other kids, or winning a State Championship, and to attain those goals, they are willing to push through the pain.

Horses have "goals", too, to eat grass, and hang in pastures with other horses. These goals have zero to do with "pleasing my darling owner who loves me."

And when our horses are "being resistant", it is almost always because of either not understanding the aids being applied, or understanding them, but being tired and starting to get to that point, like the lacrosse player at the end of the game, where "one more time" is about the last straw.

But perfectionist humans tend to be all over "one more time", because that last attempt wasn't good enough. And neither is this one, so do it again. And again. And again-----

Learn to accept "pretty good" as good, and quit after a couple of "pretty goods."

Don't keep drilling and drilling and grinding for perfection, because that will make the horse hate and dread the work. Get a little, quit for the day. Loose reins, a nice little pat, go for a walk.

Lots of days of "pretty good" can turn into very good indeed, in ways that an insistence on "perfect" never can.

Every time I hear that "Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect", in relationship to horse training, it makes me cringe.

If you are one of those people with a visceral "need" to be perfect, take it out on some inanimate object like a musical instrument or a baseball bat, not on some living creature.