Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

Due to the request from the Horse Industry Council to restrict/cancel meetings of horses in the month of September, due to the outbreak of horse flu in NSW and Queensland (not us, thank goodness!) the next Spirit of Horse, four day clinic, has been changed to outdoors at Tanjil South, Friday 5th October to Monday 8th October 2007.  The weather in October is traditionally quite nice here. 

This is the clinic based on the book “Bobby’s Diaries – Straight from the Horse’s Mouth to You”.  Accelerate your relationship and riding dramatically, using the revolutionary approach and philosophy straight from your horse’s mouth.

Cost is $460 for the four full days and at the time of this post there was only one place left.  Contact Jenny on 03 5160 1481 for enquiries or bookings or by email jenny@bookswithspirit.com 

Another Victorian clinic is outdoors at Tanjil South from Friday 30th November to Monday 3rd December.  The cost is $460 for the four full days and includes costs of camping and horse yards.  At the time of this post, there are three places left!  Contact Jenny on 03 5160 1481 or e-mail jenny@bookswithspirit.com

There’ll be another clinic at Tanjil South in January.  In the summer clinics, if the weather gets really hot, we start early and decadently spend the hot part of the day in the pool with champagne and canapes!

Click here for more information about clinics

Congratulations to Angela Herman of Pakenham, who has won a riding place in a four day Spirit of Horse clinic – the clinic based on the book ”Bobby’s Diaries – Straight from the Horse’s Mouth to You”.

I asked Angela what she wanted from the clinic.  Click here for her reply

Windsucking has traditionally been considered a bad habit or a vice.  Soserious a vice is it, that in some racing circles, a seller of the horse by racing law has to declare a horse as a windsucker.
 
But it appears that there’s more to windsucking than the bad habit that I thought it was.  Windsucking releases the feel good hormones, the endorphins, that have a similar effect to pain killing drugs that produce a “high”. There’s no doubt in my mind that a windsucker is the horse equivalent of a drug addict. 
 
When a horse windsucks he usually bites on to the edge of his stable or a fence post, arches his neck and takes a deep, grunting, sucking breath.  A windsucker has been or is usually stabled, they are most often racehorses.  I’ve known of horses that have had electric fencing to stop them and they’ve just reached down and sucked off their own legs. 
 
Click here to find out how we reduced our horse’s windsucking

Here’s the web equivalent of a brochure for the Spirit of Horse clinic in New Zealand starting on Monday 29th October to Friday 2nd November, for five full days of the most awesome relationship work you could imagine!

Click here for the web/brochure