31st Jan to 3rd Feb two spaces available
4th Feb to 7th Feb four spaces available

3rd to 6th March five spaces available
7th to 10th March 6 spaces available

Over the Top Ride Otahuna to Governors Bay and return 27 and 28th March 4 spaces available

Perhaps a few more pictures then the big Mail-Out

Read it carefully there is heaps in there! Lots of summer fun & options.

Here at Mt Lyford Horse Riding we not only have talented horses and guides but we have this little very clever dog called Winnie MacDonald Spoodle. We see her in this video lunging a bucket and going crazy. Take a look. It is so funny!!! Come and meet her at Otahuna and Mt Lyford when Kate is around.

Bye Kate and Winnie

This is my favourite picture of Abi. It says it all. You will see here that Abi is riding her horse, Bash, with one rein. Ken Faulkner said it will improve our riding, so we all did this for 6 months or so, and he was right of course. Just look at the ease of these two. You too can have that with your horse. Abi will show you how.

Abi is a totally committed horsewoman and our instructor for saddle club and Natural Horsemanship Club. Abi writes about herself:

Hi. My name is Abi. I have been working with Kate and the team (people and horses) since October 2004-and I love it!

I have ridden for 22 years mostly in the traditional way, and since 2003 I have discovered Natural Horsemanship. I would now never go back to traditional ways and wish I had learned the natural way earlier. I find it both very relaxing and freeing for both me and the horses. I understand my horses so much more and can do heaps more with them.

I look forward to meeting you when you come riding and teaching you all I know.

Thanks Sue!!

Hi Kate, I just wanted to say thank you very much for the wonderful experience Charlotte, Kate, Jo and Jessica had on Sunday. They all came home buzzing from the experience, with lots of praise for your Treks and having had a wonderful time. Charlotte was still telling me all about how to get a horse to walk backwards and how to pat them properly at 8pm last night!!

We have decided to create a goal sheet for her and she is going to work towards saving up for the 6 weeks saddle club with the overnight camp. Probably attending in the first term of next year, is there an extra cost for the overnight camp?

It will be a big goal for her to reach but she is determined to do it.

Abi and Deb were fantastic, please send them my thanks. I’m sure we’ll be back.

Kind regards

Sue

Autumn Newsletter

About to post it out to all the subscribers!

Here is the photo of Blythe, read her story in the Newsletter

Another photo.

Each end of year we have a Work for Rider’s end of year ride with an afternoon tea to finish. This year we had a lovely hot day, and Abi lead us up to the pond on one of our trails. We get up there and I see Abi instructing all the riders to take off their shoes and socks, saddles, and I am thinking this will be fun to watch! And it was. All the horses went into the pond and I saw Abi and Bash all but disappear into the deep water like real swimmers. Horses interestingly look almost like crocodiles when they swim with just their nostrils, eyes and ears on the surface of the water. They are strong swimmers and use their hooves to propel them through the water using a dog paddle action. As long as they dont panic horses can swim a long distance. In France in the Carmague they actually swim the horses in a herd across the waterways to get them in.
Looks like fun huh!!

Kate Tapley

Letter

Here is a snippet.

This was the day of our ‘big trek’. After grooming, saddling, and ground work we mounted and rode up the hill to Crystal Lake. We rode over alpine meadows, through pine forests and took in the fantastic views which were quite magical with the fresh snow. We had lunch at Crystal Lake, enjoyed chatting about ‘life’ in general and had some good ‘girl’ talk. We then had to walk the horses down the rough road for a short while, gave them a drink at the creek and then started our journey home.

This was a great day – we were just getting into the swing of it! After unsaddling,
grooming, feeding we gathered for another cuppa and another heart to heart talk
about what feelings can be brought up from the connection with horses.