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Mardi Part 3: The cob with the Bentley engine!
The last part of Jay Johnson’s visit to help me with Mardi Day three dawned and it was my turn to get straight on to Mardi. She was feeling fresh but not crazily so as she had done two days of very hard work. Before I got on Jay again went through exactly how I…
Read MoreDutch Master
I have had the great pleasure of meeting and attending training clinics with Albert Voorn many times. In 2019 I interviewed him for EQy magazine 2019 Issue Olympic silver medallist Albert Voorn is a class act – not only is he a brilliant showjumping coach and a visionary rider, this outrageously outspoken character is known…
Read MoreMardi 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreEquine Cyberspace – don’t trot in lightly!
God help you if you ever enter a debate on barefoot versus shod or rugged versus never rug in any weather.
Read MoreI bought a giant horse
I didn’t even know that I needed or wanted a new horse, in fact, I actively, categorically, didn’t want another one, no, no, no. Being the owner of a collection of eight at the moment I was absolutely not in the market for another. This herd includes home-bred youngsters, broodmares, retired field ornaments and a…
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