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Join us on a Journey in Photography, Film and the Written Word. A Book that with the ingenious use of new technology will come alive in Print, as an Interactive Online Book and on DVD...

Katika Nuru, Calling Me Home In March 2012, Author Susannah Cord embarked upon what was to be the adventure of a lifetime - a dream vacation, a riding safari across the Kenyan savannah, about which she would write for our magazine. But what happened next exceeded all expectations.

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A book is emerging, a remarkable book that has sparked a groundbreaking multi-media project detailing an adventure experienced against the backdrop of Kenya and her beauty and challenges. An adventure of body, heart, mind and spirit as the safari and Kenyan wilderness worked it’s magic on a receptive soul. A book that asks the questions: Who and what are we really, have we forgotten, and what may we become when we remember once more? And what will become of us if we don’t? http://katikanuru.com/

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“To pass judgment ... based on a snapshot is unreasonable, as a still shot from a certain angle does not reflect the whole reality.�

Danish Equestrian Federation Rollkur continues and these pictures do show the whole reality.

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There is concern throughout the equestrian world that we are being prevented from cataloquing what is happening especially at the warm up rings. During the Olympics, guards, pink screening stopped anyone from taking both photos and video.

We want to ensure for the welfare of the horses that this is not something that continues. There was some concern that this would be the case when the media accreditations were posted. Since then the corporate sponsor has become involved and issued this statement.

“Criticism has been raised over photo and video restrictions at the FEI European Championships 2013. And it has been suggested that this was enforced to keep something out of the public eye. This is clearly a misunderstanding. Any spectator can take all the photos and videos they wish. And they can share it on all private social media, including FB if they so choose. The broadcasting restrictions are – the organisers tells us – exclusively directed at professional media in order ensure a proper handling of the broadcasting rights, which are part of what pays for an event like this. They are not intended to prevent ordinary spectators from taking all the photos they want – and share.

Best Regards, ECCO Social Media Team We encourage everyone to contact both the national and international organizations to follow this lead for all horse shows. The only way to protect the horses in the warmup ring is to ensure that everyone including the media is allowed free access at all times.

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any riders mistake speed for power, and power for impulsion.

We have bred our horses to be big. Big expressive trots have falsely become the definition of better extended trots. But this power comes from stiffness.

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Power from stiffness is useless! Later in training, it will lead to difficulty in lateral work, canter pirouettes, piaffe, passage and problems with the development of true extension of the gaits. In the early working of the young horse, we need to be fastidious about making sure that stiff moments are few and far between. Should the stiff moments prevail, then we need to go back and once again encourage the horse to relax and release to the rider. Power arising out of relaxation results in more correct work.

The reason that relaxed work is more work lies in the way the muscles are used. Stiff trots and canters are less work for the horse because the muscles are using the skeleton as a lever to pull against. Relaxed working muscles don’t use the skeletal structure to pull against, they use the full flexion and contraction of the joints to move fluidly. Think of the effort it takes to flat foot run across the street.

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Excerpt– Introduction to The Power of the Herd “Throughout history, knights in shining armor often rode spirited, well-trained horses like those featured on the cover of this book. If you’re an experienced equestrian, you know that these luminous creatures aren’t white; they’re gray. And they were, in all likelihood, born black.

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Building a Cathedral Cathedral Thinking means Working Together to create a better world for our horses, both in this generation and the next.

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EXTEND YOUR EXTEND YOUR RANGE OF RANGE OF GADGETS or GADGETS or EXPAND YOUR EXPAND YOUR TRAINING TRAINING TECHNIQUE? TECHNIQUE?

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EXTEND YOUR RANGE OF GADGETS or EXPAND YOUR TRAINING TECHNIQUE?

By Jenny Rolfe (International Trainer/author) In this world of competitive goals, is the art of true horsemanship becoming compromised by more and more ‘quick fix gadgets’?

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THE CORE CONNECTION Whether we are riding across country or in a dressage arena, balance and harmony are fundamental. Imagine you are running a marathon or appearing on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’. Would you perform better wearing loose clothes for mobility or tight garments causing restriction?

Imagine running, with someone kicking you in the ribs and pulling at your mouth. It would definitely disturb your balance, mobility, equilibrium and concentration.

When you sit in the saddle on the back of the horse, you are sitting over his central nervous system. The horse will tune in to any balance adjustments within your seat and he can also be easily taught to connect with core breathing and energy exchange.

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Learning more about horses from horses when we have those rare opportunities to watch them in their natural environment interacting without our influence is something that most of us have too rarely nowadays.

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The Walk The Most Difficult Gait

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The Walk - The Most Difficult Gait

by Egon Von Neindorff Reprinted with Permission Dressage&CT July 1991 Vol 58 To be sure one should always serve pure wine. But that a bottle labelled “Naturwein” must correspond with its content does not seem to be respected any more. It seems that riding will also inevitably “go with the times” and adopt modern standards. Modern training methods too easily ignore the horse’s natural way of moving -- not without undesirable results.

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Even today, neither man nor horse is a machine, and consequently each must still learn to adapt himself to the other’s changeable and unchangeable traits. Moreover, because of the endless factors involved in riding, one is never finished learning.

For this very reason, it is all the better that during the apparent haste to learn, there are clear rules based on natural laws which have been valid for hundreds and thousands of years.

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The Chosen One

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Anakalypsi: The Chosen One The Journey Continues Never haltered, never held on a lead rope, never bridled, never saddled, free to be together 24 hours a day, bonds formed and forged, they spend their days together, in the warm sun, in the fresh wind, and live out their lives...

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Entering into their element, you usually get one response or the other, either they are shy of the stranger or they crowd around you, sniffing and snuffling at your boots, your clothes, as they try to figure out who the stranger in their midst is.

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Should you be Training the Spanish Walk?

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Should you be Training the Spanish Walk? March 1 copy “There are a number of reasons for both horse and rider to learn the Spanish Walk. First, it graphically demonstrates how each horse learns.

For example, a horse will often naturally lift one foreleg more readily than the other.�

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This can be wonderfully eye opening for many riders -- the chance to discover in very obvious and clear terms which shoulder on which side has mobility and which one, for whatever reason, is limited in mobility.

The Spanish Walk as a Diagnostic Tool While a very experienced horseman can, through attention to detail, become aware of the uneven development of the horse through the two different sides of the horse, it can be difficult for most riders, even those with experience, to fully understand the movement limitations of their horses. The Spanish Walk in this way provides the trainer with a wonderful diagnostic tool.

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FEI PRESS RELEASE Lausanne (SUI), 10 May 2012 In Memoriam: Joanne Pitt 1979-2013 Joanne Pitt (GBR), 34, Paralympian, individual bronze and team gold medallist at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ and member of UK Sport’s World Class Performance programme for almost 10 years, died peacefully last week with her family beside her after being treated for a rare lung condition.

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Jo had right-sided hemiplegic cerebral palsy, which affected the feeling and mobility down her right side, but she never let that stand in her way. After attending a summer holiday camp when she was six years old, she became hooked on horses and never looked back.

At the age of 25, she represented Great Britain at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games with Rockhill Horses For LIFE

Kashmir, and six years later with her gelding Estralita she took bronze in the Grade II Freestyle and team gold at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Kentucky.

This season, Jo and Estralita had won all but two of their 12 starts, including international team and individual victories at Deauville CPEDI3* in March and the Grade II title at the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships.

The FEI and Horses For LIFE expresses its sincere condolences to Joanne Pitt’s fiancé, family and friends, to the British Equestrian Federation and British Dressage, and her many friends in the international equestrian community.

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Photo caption: Joanne Pitt, individual bronze and team gold medallist at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™, is pictured (second right) with her teammates in Kentucky (left to right): Ricky Balshaw, Sophie Christiansen, Emma Sheardown, Sophie Wells MBE, Lee Pearson CBE and Anne Dunham MBE (seated). (Photo: Kit Houghton).

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FEI PRESS RELEASE Lausanne (SUI), 10 May 2013 Photo caption: Ted Dwyer, former coordinator of the FEI World Cup™ Jumping Pacific League and international course designer and judge, who has died in Australia.

In Memoriam: Ted Dwyer OAM, 1923-2013 Ted Dwyer, former coordinator of the FEI World Cup™ Jumping Pacific League and international course designer and judge, has died in

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Australia just days before his 90th birthday.

Ted lived in Young, New South Wales together with his wife, Judy and their two sons on a farm that had been in his family since 1868.

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also produced English Hackney horses at their Ellmore Stud.

Ted was an FEI international course designer and Jumping judge and was instrumental in developing FEI World Cup™ Jumping competitions in New Zealand and South-East Asia. He was the coordinator of the FEI World Cup™ Pacific League for 25 years, from its inception until his retirement at the 2003 Final in Las Vegas. He helped lobby the FEI World Cup committee members for the establishment of the South-East Asian League, the 13th league in the world.

He owned a number of successful Jumping horses, including Ocean Foam, the horse ridden

by Kevin Bacon on the Australian team that finished seventh at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games

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He officiated as both a course designer and a judge all over Australia and New Zealand, as well as much of South-East Asia, including designing courses for the Xanthus Show Jumping Open series from 1991-1994, the 2nd and 4th Asian Show Jumping Championships and the 1995 Chiang Mai South-East Asian Games.

Over a 40-year period, Ted was also a contributor to a number of magazines in Australia and New Zealand and wrote two books, Show Jumping Down Under (1972) and Show Jumping in Australia (2005).

British equestrian journalist Alan Smith, who worked closely with Ted on the FEI World Cup circuit, remembers him with great fondness. “The huge contribution that Ted has made to show jumping in Australia and in parts of South-East Asia, where he is something of a

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godfather figure, would be hard to exaggerate,” he wrote in a foreword to Show Jumping in Australia. The pair were together at a party on a cruise ship during the 1989 FEI World Cup™ Final in Tampa, Florida. Thinking it might get chilly on the boat later in the evening, Ted asked one of the organisers if he should take a jumper, and was told by a very alarmed lady that no horses were allowed on board!

Ted was awarded the FEI Medal of Honour in 1998, three years after the Governor General had presented him with the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in recognition of his “services to equestrian sport both nationally and internationally”. He was inducted into the Equestrian Australia Hall of Fame in 2011.

“The FEI World Cup exists in its present form in Australia thanks to the dedication and passion of Ted Dwyer,” said John Roche, FEI World

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Cup Director. “The sport in Australia owes a lot to Ted’s dynamic efforts and enthusiasm. Our thoughts are with Ted’s family and friends at this sad time. He will be much missed.”

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