The Horses at Alderlore

There is a lot of video footage that comes before the work taped in this session, which you can find … and I am still editing and uploading. If you take a peek at the above video, you can see it is complicated work for the horse, and it may seem like very little progress [...]

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To end this session, I am merely looking for simplicity and consistency and a sense of relationship. A short sequence gets us straight to the point. Look closely at the Freisian at the end. He stood there thinking/ processing all that occurred for a long long while…. When we put him in his paddock, he [...]

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This clip is in slow motion to give the viewer a sense of the close, intimate work that is being done. My goal at this point is to relieve some of the tension that the horse holds in his neck and through the poll. You can see how the way I ask him to yield [...]

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Because some of the slow, intense and close work can build up tension in a horse like this, after his break, I decide to work at greater speed with a greater sense of space and liberty. Ideally, the horse should move enthusiastically and joyfully. This requires the horse to release his tension and braci-ness. At [...]

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In this next clip, the Freisian starts off along the rail braced in the left hind as before. Still, he moves rather nicely off the rail when I ask him to yield the left hind. From then on, as long as you see him move in a circle around me, rather than straight away, he [...]

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In this first segment, I am looking to allow the horse space and time to accomodate my approach. If he is attentive to me without bracing (a soft turn of the neck) I leave him and circle again. His natural tendency to like people, keeps him engaged with me. His habit of bracing, pushes me [...]

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