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Hannah MacIntosh

Hannah MacIntosh

Counsellor and psychotherapist (BSc, MSc, MBACP) in Dunblane/Strathyre and Teaching Fellow for the MSc Counselling & Psychotherapy at the University of Strathclyde, who runs Chala Counselling & Psychotherapy and is also an equestrian campaigning her PRE horse Rosa for the MCi European Finals with Team GB.

Aug 25, 2026

2:40
What's in them and what classes do you have in that or sections in that?
2:45
generally follows the similar to the British dressage.
2:48
We don't have an intro version but the classes will start at prelim and so you can do prelim novice but you can't do your regular prelim and novice until your horse is seven.
3:01
So pre-seven you do their young horse classes so the Primera and Novella classes and then post seven you can either choose to stay at prelim and novice or you can move up so Rosa is either doing her Primera and Novella classes so the Primera is the equivalent of between probably a prelim and a novice it will be more novice than it is and then the Novella is between novice and elementary.
3:34
So there's a bit of shoulder end, there's a bit of leg
4:39
so interesting and it's i think it's fabulous that we've seen the iberians coming in and being competitive so just going going back a step but hannah your background was in eventing not dressage and razor came into your life a little bit by accident i think would that be fair
4:59
yeah i think so i mean i i had a fairly major accident which probably meant that i shouldn't do the eventing to the level that i was doing and um i've always liked the spanish horses but i haven't really paid much attention and and then yeah i was walking to the pub one day she um Rosa was actually born on our on our farm she was bred and by a lady called Laura Thompson she's built up by Gary and then she and but she had some girls down with us and Rosa was born on on our farm I was walking to the pub and this little food girl, Phyllis, was standing a field and a half away from her parents.
5:43
I'm a little mad and I kind of said, hello, and she did a little squeak and spun around and disappeared off back to her mum and I thought, oh no, by the time I got to the pub I'd bought her.

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