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    Strut your stuff

    Jun 23, 2022 5 minutes
    WORDS: HELEN MILBANK
    PHOTOS: MATTHEW ROBERTS

    MEET THE TRAINER

    VIKKI HAYTON is based at College Farm Equestrian Centre and heads up Markham Dressage. She’s a BHS instructor and examiner, a UKCC Level 3 accredited dressage coach, a BD judge and Northern Region BD Chairman. Visit collegefarm.com

    MEET THE RIDER & HORSE

    SAM GORMAN BHSI has owned PORRIDGE since he was a youngster, and the 14.1hh, nine-year-old gypsy cob now competes at advanced medium level.

    CAN A GYPSY cob do dressage? And can they progress through the levels to advanced medium level? It’s true what they say — #ThisCobCan. In fact, so can any horse, providing you work on honing the basics and building good, accurate training up from there so that you can show off all your horse or pony’s assets between the whiteboards and earn the marks that will make

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