MONTY ROBERTS IN FEBRUARY with Kelly Marks

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Sat Feb 7th – South View EC, Cheshire
Fri Feb 13th – The College EC, Keysoe
Sat Feb 14th – Hadlow College, Tonbridge
Friday Feb 20th – Quob EC, Southampton
Sat Feb 28th – The Hand EC, Clevedon

Go to www.intelligenthorsemanship.co.uk or ring 01488 71300

Thanks for this. I went to see Monty Roberts years ago but have never been to see Kelly Marks. Certainly something to plan for.
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Has anyone been to the first stop on the tour, on the 7th? Would like to hear your thoughts on it.

No but I've been to several and also helped out as a volunteer. Monty was my starting point in natural horsemanship, many years ago. He's incredibly skilled at what he does. Kelly is almost as skilled, and seems to me to bring a more gentle (dare I say feminine?!) feel. Their feel and therefore speed at helping horses learn to be ridden, or deal with problems is phenominal.

I would say, as do they, that the demo situation is not the best one in which to do this kind of work - Monty says starting CAN be done in half an hour, but for best results do it in small blocks over 4 days. Tho it can have its advantages - the non-loaders often end up looking like they feel the horsebox is a safe place to hide from the audience! Monty's current rider is also pretty amazing, last year he did some fabulous work with a horse with mounting issues. His feel was also super... roll on the day when I'm that good! Not sure I'll ever be that springy tho - the amount of jumping up and jumping off the guy did!

Hope that helps, feel free to ask me questions if there's anything I haven't mentioned.