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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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Take a year off and go and sort yourself out. This is the kind of advice that Vicki and a number of friends and acquaintances received from Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling while studying with him at his Akedah International school on the island of Lyø in Denmark. And this is precisely what we did. We took […]

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Since the last quarter of 2011 I have had the feeling that it would not be long before another horse would enter my life. Instinctively I knew that this would not occur if I went in search of one. I would not look for one. A horse would simply come into my life. Now this […]

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Finally, he stands before me, the horse whose near-mythological story has mesmerised me from the moment I first heard whispers of it a month ago. Here he is, compact, muscled, his copper-toned bulk fringed with flaxen mane and forelock grounded to the sandy surface of the picadero. His gaze is firm, unblinking. 2Moons has announced […]

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There has probably been a time in your life – possibly more than one occasion – when a serendipitous collection of circumstances ignited a spark of acute awareness of what comes next. And if you had followed that spark, had lived it like a horse as unpremeditatedly as it had occurred, what would have happened? […]

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