A guide to choosing your perfect horse or pony

This afternoon, the weather was just perfect for our half day course "A guide to choosing your perfect horse or pony"! We covered everything from producing a bespoke equine "shopping list", to the all important guide and checklist for assessing an equine (for behaviour, skills and health)during a viewing. We ventured out into the sunshine to put the newly found participant knowledge into practice by doing an assessment of a pony.

Here in the photo, we are looking at an effective technique used to check for minor lameness - it can be quite tricky to match the strides of these ponies with little legs - there's not much time between one leg coming up and the next one coming down!...It's not compulsory to lead whilst walking backwards for this technique, it's just useful for teaching it!!

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Course feedback: "The quality of the teaching was excellent...The practical, pragmatic, hands-on approach is exactly what I need. I like Faye's calm yet self assured style, which creates a safe environment while stretching me a little so I learn more. The ponies are brilliant!"