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Kate Tapley Horse
Treks-Newsletter Spring
2008
This
newsletter contains:
Shift to new venue
New Ride at Mt Lyford
Riding to do:
Natural Horsemanship Club
Riding weekends at Mt Lyford
Becoming a Horsey Parent Course
Latest in Saddle Club
Sponsoring your horse
Up Coming Events:
Horsemanship Clinics: With Bryan McVicar
and Ken Faulkner
Video
Night
Latest stories
Handy to know horse hint
Hello
Everyone
Welcome to
the Spring
Newsletter. I finally have good news about our home! Following the
collapse of
our land purchase I have signed a lease with John and June Wilson up
the
Shift to New Venue
We are
planning to move to
New Ride at Mt Lyford
Pip from
Sherwood, myself and
others have been working on these iconic NZ huts near Sherwood Lodge on
the
We are
offering an overnight
ride to these huts with bar b que dinner and breakfast provided by
Sherwood
Lodge from Mt Lyford for $395.00pp for the two days. It is a stunning 6
hour
ride over and back. We take a couple of different routes for variety
and there
is the option to stay at the huts and do day rides from there before
returning
to Mt Lyford. Of course if the sandflies get too bad you can always
book into
the lodge and enjoy the luxury of Sherwood Lodge. Got to go for this
folks, it
is a “pearler”.
Other Riding to do
Half day and all day rides can be enjoyed by everyone at any time. We have a great new all day ride that takes us up to the top of the summit road, where we have lunch looking over Lyttelton Harbour, and return through a fabulous established stand of native forest. Take a look on the route guide on the website, www.otahunariding.co.nz.
The Over the Top Ride is a great family ride. Our next one goes on 27 and 28 November with spaces and anyone with two or more in their party can book an Over the Top Ride.
The Natural Horsemanship Club is put together by Abi. Many new riders have joined this group recently with three groups meeting during the week. This is a regular group of riders who meet up and learn all they want about this amazing method of communicating with the horses. There is opportunity to work towards attaining levels if you wish. Anyone welcome on your horses or ours. Fee is the maxxx card.
The riding weekends at Mt Lyford are always successful. We have some mothers and daughters looking to book another group. As always anyone can book a weekend for themselves. We run them with a minimum number of three riders. $320.00pp includes accommodation, lunches and spas.
Becoming
a Confident horsey Parent.
Again these courses are proving to be very effective.
They are simple, short, and enable parents to equip themselves to be
involved
in their children’s riding activities. There is a special emphasis on
safe handling.
Cost $145.00pp Take a look at the flyer on
the Otahuna website. www.otahunariding.co.nz/parent.html
Report on Otahuna Saddle Club
Horsemanship Clinics: Ken
Faulkner
Cost
$680.00pp to ride, $60.00
per day to watch.
Places are
secured by a non
refundable full payment paid two weeks before the clinic. A late fee of
$100.00
applies for payments made after this. Download the registration
form from www.otahunriding.co.nz
Video Night
Abi has set a date for the first Video Night! It is Friday, 5 December at 7.30pm. The venue will be at Abi's house which is 7 Lyttelton Street, Lincoln.
We will watch a video/DVD on Natural Horsemanship for about 2 hours, then have a shared pot luck supper and a chance to ask questions/catch up while eating. So bring along a plate and $5 (unless you are a WFR in which case you can pay in cash or use hours worked to cover it). This is open to anyone who wants to learn about Natural Horsemanship so invite your friends and get them involved! Please let Abi know numbers before Wednesday, 3 December. Thank you. abi.ricketts@clear.net.nz
If people are keen to have another one then we can arrange a date and venue at the end of the night. If you would be willing to open up your home for these in the future please let Abi know.
Sponsoring
your Horse
We have our
first sponsor for
our horse Jimmy, and the tee shirt with them both on is in the
pipeline. There
is now an opportunity for you to support your horse by setting up a
sponsorship
for them. You receive a two monthly update on their news, and what your
money
is being used for to assist your horse, a photo, and of course you get
to
continue to ride “your” horse whenever you ride with us. There is also
the Tee
shirt with “your” horse on it.
To sponsor
simply e mail Kate
on kate@katetapley.co.nz,
and we set
up a sponsorship online.
Latest stories
Please write
in any of your
stories to me and I can add them to the newsletter and the websites.
Everyone
has a story to tell around horses.
There are so
many stories to
tell let me see. What about the courage of some of our riders both
child and
adult, and the way they face such a lot of fear sometimes to go along
with the
idea of a horse ride after many years or following an accident or a
fright
previously with a horse. Whether the idea to come riding is their’s or
their
mate’s or friend; from somewhere they chose to go O.K. lets do it. I
really
admire that risk taking attitude of going into the unknown with trust.
The reward
at the end of freedom and competence is so much greater. Who has some
of these
stories for us. I along with others I am sure would love to hear more
on this
important subject.
Handy to know horse hint
I am
beginning to understand
how Leadership more than anything else is what makes us safe around our
horse.
Leadership will soften a horse, offer confidence, quiet, and thought to
a
horse. These results I think are the product of good leadership.
Be sure to
look up the blog.
It is full of great things. www.katetapley.co.nz/news
From the team
at Kate Tapley
Horse Treks
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