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Steve Cass worked in the Metropolitan Police Service for 30 years, training police horses. An intensive riding course working under the tutelage of top instructors such as Dane Rawlings and Sylvia Stanier - who trained the Queen's dressage horses - the Mounted Training Establishment, Imber Court, turned Steve into an accomplished rider. Steve backed new horse recruits before preparing them for frontline duty.
Specialising in:
- Backing
- Problem horses
- Young stock
- Schooling
- Riding out safely and with confidence
Whether you have a specific problem, or simply would like a youngster
started, drop us an email or phone call and we can discuss you requirements.
The hourly rate is £22.50 to visit, plus travel expenses at 50p per mile.The alternaive is to have your horse come to us for £150 per week, which includes everything except vets bills, worming and farrier, and is roughly based on 6 hours schooling per week.
Please
email for a no obligation quote to have Derwentbank Equestrian visit
your horse.
Quotes:
"Whether you're in a police line waiting to go into a riot involving a
hostile, inner-city crowd, riding past a lorry or jumping a fence at
Cumwhinton Horse Trials, you ride the horse forward in the same way. You are
asking a horse to perform a task that is perhaps daunting to him, and he has
to have total trust in, and respect for the rider."
"What you ask police horses to do is perform acts that are terrifying. They
have to cope with large volumes of people with banners or throwing missiles
and there might even be petrol bombs. You certainly needed a bond with a
horse in the police as you sometimes have to be able to control a horse with
one hand while holding a baton in the other."
"You gradually build up their confidence and, when they are first on the
streets, they're guided by an older horse. It's no different to how I train
horses today - the principles are the same."
"I love the feeling of satisfaction when you get a horse which has been
difficult for its owner and it becomes a safe riding horse. Every horse is a
new challenge."
