A couple of weeks ago we went on the first of our regular Steve Halfpenny clinics for this year.
( It was brilliant, we have many pictures )

This was the fourth clinic I have ridden on this summer, two with Tom Widdicombe and two with Steve Halfpenny and with the September Silversand weekend having been the longest-standing fixture on our clinic timetable it's also the official end of summer as far as we are concerned ( Read more... )

This was the third clinic with Tom and Sarah that I've attended and the second that I've ridden on with Zorro, so I'm not going to go into as much detail as I have in the past- if you want to see more on what they are teaching and how take a look at my clinics tag which has both past reports - the Mark Rashid report is quite relevant too as they ( Read more... )

This clinic, held at the extensive Hoplands Equestrian Centre near Winchester was formatted in the way Mark tends to work his US clinics with a morning and afternoon group of four riders each one working with Mark for a couple of sessions at one end of the arena and then with his wife and teaching assistant Chrissie in between times. It was a step ( Read more... )

This will be the third year that I have taken part in this clinic and in that time my horsemanship has grown enormously. Steve has changed in how he works too, evolving and growing in finesse with each passing year, particularly when Phillip Nye ( reclusive Tasmanian horsemanship genius and Silversand co-founder ) has been over for one of his bi- ( Read more... )

Tom and Sarah Widdicombe are horse trainers and clincians who have worked with a lot of horses, developing a simple and very reliable approach based on keeping things clear and easily understandable for the horse. Tom is the author of the quite brilliant Be With Your Horse while Sarah wrote The BHS Book Of The Natural Horse which I shall be ( Read more... )