“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” Mae West   A great deal of care goes into selecting the best horses for breeding and following that the beautiful process of gentling the young horse begins. Then begins the...

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It’s always an honour to be invited to help guide the first steps as a riding horse, as the quality of these experiences can literally effect the rest of your horse’s ridden career. Often the challenges many young horses face can be as large as th...

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As we’re fast approaching the last few modules of the GHDC 2020 I wanted to reach out to you regarding the future of the course in 2021 and beyond. COVID has given you all the opportunity to go beyond your comfort zones and improve your skills throug...

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During these strange months of lockdown it occurred to me that the antidote to isolation is the sharing of knowledge. Even though we may not have been able to physically travel our knowledge still can, and we can still all benefit from putting our mi...

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Over the last twenty odd years I have had the pleasure and the privilege of being invited to observe many people’s time with their horses, in order to explore what could be missing. What is it that we should be able to communicate to our horse in thr...

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This is a question that I’ve been asked repeatedly in my many years as a horse trainer and as winter slowly recedes I thought it an opportune time to address it. It’s especially relevant as over the last few weeks I’ve had the pleasure of working sol...

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I have been a horseman my whole life; listening to horses, observing their behaviour and educating them, all from my little wooden cabin in Shropshire. I’ve been endlessly mesmerised by horses at liberty and intrigued by the possibility that they may...

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Having spent the last year diligently working through a systematic training program (GHDC,) it’s time to look at the Liberty training component to find out what our horses have not just physically, but whole heartedly taken on board. When the rein...

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Feeling like I had reached a developmental plateau with my horses, I finally decided to do something proactive about it. That 'something' was signing up for the six month Genuine Horse Development Course with Student of the Horse in Bridgnorth. It is...

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I first took part on the Genuine Horse Development Course  in 2017, and it was year of many break throughs, new understandings and greater awareness, in addition to a few struggles...there is always a struggle! I think the latter is what really keeps...

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