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“You have a leadership problem with your horse. Your horse does not recognise you as a leader.” Your trainer may have said this to you on occasion or something similar to it. As a result, you may have shrunk into your shell and seized the first opportunity to slink off quietly to find a quiet […]

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My last post (Towards Riding 1 – The Horse) elicited two comments which have profoundly affected my thoughts in the past few weeks and in doing so have helped create the basis for this post. The first comment came from Peggy on the east coast of Australia and it is this: “if you have a […]

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On Friday, 27 September 2013 people from around Australia began to gather in the small town of Tallangatta on the banks of the state of Victoria’s Lake Hume. Some brought horses with them, while others did not. What they all had in common though was that they could look their horses in the eye and […]

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As we move into the latter half of September, I am acutely conscious of a convergence of developments which are inviting me to contemplate what is required of the human, if the latter is to become someone whom a horse wishes to be with. Not only does this question penetrate to the core of my […]

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You have probably heard of the first four: Alexander Nevzorov with his Nevzorov Haute Ecole, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling with his Akedah International school, Carolyn Resnick with her Waterhole Rituals and Chuck Mintzlaff with his Friendship Training. But who is this creature called Pip and what is that name doing in a list of horse gurus? […]

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