In this episode I am talking about Ginny and why I named my business after her. I talked about her a lot in the "My Journey" Episode but I didn't go into much detail when I talked about some of the things she put up with from me, the guilt I feel surrounding her, where she is now, what my logo means, and how I came to the decision to name the business Horsemanship from Ginny, often creating confusion surrounding my name and people thinking I'm called Ginny.

Ginny has had a huge influence in my life and still does, even now, 15 years after I first met her, I can look back on my life, and still go through things in my ife, and the people who re the most important to me in my life, she is still a direct link as to why they're in my life and how much of an impact she has had over me and will continue to have over me throughout my life as I continue on this journey.

I will be forever grateful for this mare coming into my life, despite the neglect she went through due to my ingnorance and lack of funds to really be able to look after her properly. She never asked for much, just to be treated fairly and I often fell shirt of that, which I will always feel sorry for, but the lessons I learned from her I take forward in my life, in my personal relationships, in my training and relationships with the horses I own now, and the clients horses I get the pleasure to work with thanks to the path this very special mare sent me on.

In this Episode I'm talking about Fernley. A beautiful bay Gelding who really struggled with a lot in his life.

From loading, to general handling, which would bleed into his ridden work. He has some health issues in his life which made life harder for him, and quite sadly lead to his death.

Thank you to Beth who gave me permission to tell Fernley's story, while I could talk for hours and hours about Fernley and all the things he found difficult and how he had to learn pretty much everything from scratch again, that horse tried his heart out for me and tried his absolute hardest for me everytime.

Fernley was easily the hardest horse I've met in my life to work with, but the physical issues he had made it hard to know why he was so difficult until it was too late unfortunately.

RIP Fernley

The One, That Tested My Patience

While watching videos of many of the trainers that are out there, you might've heard the phrase "Make the wrong thing hard and the right thing easy".

But what does that actually mean?

Well that's what I talk about in this episode, giving several examples, reasons why it works, ways it can be done wrong, and why it doesn't mean simply beating on a horse, kicking or pulling them about. Why it's not about removing choice from your horse, but it actually gives them a choice to make, while guiding them to do the things we want them to do.