Private scheduled video conferencing with Eliza Lehrman. Let’s talk about your ride! We get into specific details that will enhance your knowledge as a rider and/or trainer. Eliza can offer useful and in-depth ideas and training exercises for the rider and horse. Another important area for discussion is around all aspects of equipment choice for the horse and rider.  Eliza also provides insightful and supportive direction for the rider’s mental fitness and how to prepare for and embody show day focus. Let’s get started!

Send me a video of a horse show round or of a formal home training session. Then choose from these carefully selected training focal points to discuss on our call.  You decide on which areas of training and performance to concentrate.

(OPEN TO ALL RIDERS 15yr and OVER and jumping minimum of .90cm / 2’ 6”)

Choose from these areas of concentration for the rider:

•  Rider position and balance
•  Rider effectiveness: understanding of pace and track
•  Rider mental game
•  Rider preparation, fitness, equipment etc

Choose from these areas of concentration for the horse:

•  Technique and balance achieved vs. future goals.
•  How to decide what height to jump. When to step up or step down.
•  Ring performance critique
•  Preparation- Flatwork, routine, the horse’s program
•  Tack – equipment questions and suggestions

Eliza Lehrman is originally from New York. She has had the benefit of training with several great horsemen from the USA and Europe, including: Norman Dello Joio (USA Olympic and World Cup rider/trainer), Andre Dignelli (Pan American games rider and top equitation trainer in the country), Robert Smith (GBR team showjumping rider) Michelle Grubb (USA team showjumping rider/trainer), Stanny Van Paesschen (Belgian team rider and chef d’equipe for many teams), Robert Crandall (Top hunter and equitation rider and trainer) and Kate Oliver (Advanced equitation and hunter trainer). Eliza competes in the jumper ring and is a successful Grand Prix and young horse rider and trainer. She has top results in all levels of FEI, up to the 5*rating.  Eliza works with the knowledge and foundation of the American Showjumping system from the equitation, hunter, and jumper experts with whom she worked. She ran a successful jumper/hunter client and sales barn for 10 years in Bedford, NY. She then moved to Belgium. There she gained important experience and perspective from living and riding in Belgium, thereby acquiring additional training techniques. She has created a unique and personal training and teaching style that is a combination of what she believes to be the best of the principles she has learned along the way. The basis of her training is grounded in the fundamentals of position, balance, and connection. The foundational classical use of seat and leg principles, combined with the “forward” riding and light seat technique of the recent greats in the USA combine to inform her riding style. In her teaching, she focuses on the details to help each client attain their specific goals.  For the horses in training, the goal is to encourage, educate and allow the horses to attain their full potential through correct, diligent and patient training and show experience. When her horses are sold, the new owner can be assured of a horse with a strong foundation, rideability and potential for continued success.

She has over 20 years of experience teaching students at all levels of riding. She excels in the explanation of the details in flatwork and use of exercises that help to develop the performance and confidence of both horse and rider. Eliza enjoys sharing with others the elements of the process she uses to produce a resilient, successful, and confident show horse.  She offers consulting in all areas of the industry and sport. These areas include horsemanship, management, riding fundamentals and theory.  She successfully identifies and produces both jumpers and hunter/equitation horses for the future showjumping market; and she has a proven record of connecting clients and professionals with the right next horse.