Last weekend we had the Monty Roberts demonstration in devon, followed by the demo in Preston.
I hope it was because of my stimulating converstaion skills that the various drivers of vehicles seemed to draw up a bit of a rota as to who I would travel with  - and not that they all needed an occasional break from the chatting!
The devon demo went really well, the private audience horse was a bay mare named Cider Maid. Her owner is a competition horse breeder who manages ther herds of broodmares ...
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At this demo the private audience horse was really interesting to me, a grey mare (creatively named Mare-y) who was incredibly sharp. She had come as a potential starter but was barely handleable enough to touch let along saddle up. She had mud on her hindquaters that her owners were unable to brush, and reared during her physcial examination with the tour physio Sue Palmer. Large areas of her body and legs were simply out of bounds. We worked with a long stick and a sponge on the end in orde...

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The first demo of this tour was in Scotland. It was worth the very (very, very very) long drive up to Gleneagles to be in such beautiful countryside and amongst such pleasant people. Or at least I think they were pleasant. I am awful with accents and scottish is no exception. But they seemed pretty smiley! (Amongst the smiliest must be Jen-ette, thats Jenny and Lanette, who we met in the hotel the following morning, good luck with your trailer-ramp-phobic mare and let me know how it goes!)
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