Mardi Part 2: Jay Johnson works his magic

So my scruffy-looking project mare turned out to have all sorts of tricks up her sleeve (read part one here). Turns out she arrived with a spare eject button. After a fence, she had a neat way of dropping her shoulder bucking and spinning all at the same time making her pretty tricky to sit…

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A gem of a book

The Book of the Horse: Horses in Art. Author: Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts. Publisher: Laurence King Publishing. Price: £12.99 This book needs to be bigger! That was my first thought, not in pagination, but literally be a bigger size. It would make a beautiful, huge hardback coffee table book. It is still a rather…

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The scruffy project mare who is here to stay! Part 1

In the spring of 2019 a picture of a horse caught my eye on Facebook (always a bad thing!) I then watched a wee video of this mare jumping and thought I saw something I liked in her. Because I quite enjoy doing this I bought her – sight unseen and untried. (I don’t recommend…

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A Christmas present for horse-sport lovers

Book Review: An Illustrated History of Equestrian Sports by Marie de Pellegars-Malhortie and Benoit Capdebarthes. Published by Flammarion. Price: Hardback £35 This stunning book arrived in our offices to be reviewed – as soon as I saw the stunning cover I made a bid to be the lucky one to take it home! This book…

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