Lorraine at Tostock Old Hall - Suffolk

My whole world seems to have gone dressage and Hack Up Bespoke!

I have been using Hack Up Bespoke for over a year now. As an ex professional re-trainer rider and livery yard manager my introduction to Hack Up was to help with their own dressage horses that are kept at home. Over time my role extended into making the bespoke products and I completely saw that I should be using them on my own horses.  Not only were Jayne Gingell’s horses calm and happy but so were many of their 1,000’s of clients.  I began working whilst their PSG dressage horse was in rehabilitation and was completely dangerous at times.  So what I saw really did test their products from a calming point of view as well as tendon improvements.  My own horses soon had bespoke formulations created for them too.  I was never into dressage really as an event and show jump rider, but I had been learning and quite inspired by working with the Gingell’s and became good friends with Jenna Johnson at Tostock Old Hall,  where I keep my horses, who is quite a way up the dressage levels.  So I got into the groove and started to focus on dressage.  Libby had done dressage before but did like to put her head in the air like a giraffe, the last time I had her out, not good!  She was bred by a professional show jumper and proved not quite bold enough, after that she was owned by a young girl who was just over horsed so I had some real work to get her even walking out in front of the leg.  I had a few dressage lessons and put her on a bespoke to help her feel more comfortable and address her tension.  I then went to have a go at a competition and oh my goodness we won!  I am also working at a fabulous professional dressage yard twice a week with the dutch Okke Krol owner of Dutch Dressage, he has most of his yard liveries on Hack Up Bespoke and by pure chance our paths have crossed.  I am seeing the European way of dealing with horses and noticing the stark differences between the English and the European way, I think it is due to our history in the UK we were heavily racing and hunting where as Europe has been heavily into dressage.  I am now beginning to feel like I have got the dressage bug starting!  I have bought another horse that will need re training but that has fabulous dressage breeding – he is also on Hack Up Bespoke and in rehab at the moment but I am now thinking I should be going to the next BD Satellite Camp to get my bug developed into a fever – my whole world seems to have become Hack Up Bespoke and Dressage without even trying!!!! Without moving my horses to Tostock Old Hall I would not have had the fortune of such opportitnities.  I love being at this livery yard, it is a social life coupled with horses.  The fact that we all are so helpful to each other means we all get our own social lives too as we cover our horses routines so it is a complete WIN WIN and I feel very happy and lucky.