Xato and the Liberty Session
A guest post this week from Ben, about a ‘liberty’ session he did with Xato recently (I put liberty in quotes because it’s not the polished display you might associate
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#HorseBloggers: Top 3 Training Tips
This month, the #HorseBloggers group on Facebook set a blogging theme that required us to share our top training tip (later amended to any kind of top tip). I did
Team Half-Ass and the Long Hike
Apologies for the slightly late post this week. As you may have already seen from the Facebook page, I foolishly left part of my finger behind in 2018 which makes
Team Half-Ass and the End Of Year Round-Up
❤ Another year draws to a close! ❤ The main things that happened in 2018: Marty had some man troubles in March. Ben spent a lot of time working on Xato’s steering
Xato and the Reason I Got Scared
If you’re a regular to the blog, you’re probably aware that I have a plethora of Not My Proudest Moments; an awareness aided by my oddly masochistic compulsion to share
Xato and the Joe Wolter clinic, part three
Xato and the Joe Wolter Clinic Part Three: Three Things I Learnt By Riding With Joe Back in April 2017, Ben and I took our Practical Animals (aka Iris and
Team Half-Ass and the Dressage Tests
A few weeks ago, Marty won me a free entry to Sparkle Pony shows (not the Burning Man definition … well, maybe. This is Marty we’re talking about). Sparkle Pony
Blog Hop: How Do You Build A Bond With Your Horse?
When we got Marty, he jumped over the partition in the lorry and got stuck (twice). After the second attempt, in the middle of Dartmoor and without enough fuel to
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Marty and the Alphabet Game
A few weeks ago, I designed an “alphabet game” which I uploaded to the Horsemanship Magazine Facebook page. It was just meant as a bit of fun, something to motivate
Team Half-Ass and the First Sentences Of 2017
Back in ye olde days of LiveJournal, there was a popular New Year’s meme that involved going back through your previous year’s entries and copying down the first sentence of
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