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Ridden Demonstration with Anna's own horse Apollo

Saturday 30th October 2010
Bovey Tracey

Firstly thank you to Kim for holding this event at her yard. In this demonstration we talked about the importance of having a horse’s mind with us and developing feel and timing while aiming to maintain responsiveness and softness within ourselves and in our horses. Apollo demonstrated how the feel between horse and rider instigates the quality of lateral work and transitions. I rode Apollo in a bridle, then headoller, then with only a rope around his neck and then with nothing on his head or neck. This was to demonstrated that know matter what we ride our horse in (bridle, headcoller, rope) the horse should clearly understand and find comfort in following the feel of our direction. While riding without anything on Apollo's head or neck we discussed how horses pick up on the feel of our intention, whole body and legs for direction.