Meet Elly Darling
December 29, 2021

Elly Darling is a Grand Prix dressage rider based in Suffolk, UK. She’s also a BDCC level 3 coach, competing nationally with several regional titles and wins and placings at High Profile and Premier League shows.

A Bombers bits ambassador, Elly has had a busy year, notably introducing the amazing young black KWPN stallion, Lestingdale (pictured left and right).

 

loki or Lestingdale_Elly DarlingLoki, as he’s known at home, by Glamourdale x Sorento, soon impressed with a win in the Nextgen 4yr old dressage finals in 2020, and is now out competing at Elementary.

He is usually ridden in a Bombers ported barrel. The Ported Barrel was created to relieve pressure on the tongue via the the medium port; as a result, this creates space for the tongue.

The barrel joint relieves pressure on the bars by spreading it over a larger area and limiting the nut cracker action of a conventional snaffle.

 

 

Stanley, left, has been off work after an unfortunate fracture in his cannon bone, but after two years he is finally back and feeling really cool, according to Elly.

“He is also in the Bombers hanging cheek ported barrel,” Elly explains of the dark bay gelding. (Bit pictured above).

“Our young stallion No Limit (right), has just been backed, and is proving very exciting.

“We are working through different bits with him and he’s currently in a happy tongue,” Elly adds. (The Happy Tongue, pictured below, has a medium port creating space for the tongue, relieving pressure, allowing the horse to relax.) The Happy Tongue boasts a curved and ported mouthpiece to give tongue relief.

“No Limit will continue to have a few more weeks holiday before he starts work properly over the winter ready for age classes in 2022,” Elly says.

 

 

 

 

Elly has also welcomed the very exciting stallion Multicouture to the team, and he is currently training at medium (right). “He will be out competing once he is at small tour level,” she concludes.

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