Post by dptc on Jul 21, 2009 15:08:56 GMT 1
Dartmoor Hill Pony New Owners Workshop 09,10 & 11th October 2009
Book now to avoid disappointment!
Owning a Dartmoor Pony is fun, but can also be a terrific challenge, especially if you buy one straight from the moors at the sales. A special workshop dedicated to helping you learn how to handle feral ponies will give you the experience and confidence you need to make your new partnership immensely rewarding and satisfying both for you and your pony. Spectators are also welcome to pick up training tips.
The Dartmoor Pony Training Centre will be running a Dartmoor Hill Pony Workshop on 09, 10 and 11th October with Sarah Weston of Intelligent Horsemanship, renowned for her work with unhandled feral ponies including New Forests, Exmoors and Dartmoors.
The dates have been set to encourage people to work with a foal or pony they have bought at the sale before they take it home resulting in both having a good grounding and knowledge for their new lives together. Because the work will be intensive there are limited spaces – so book your place quickly. People who are thinking about buying in the future are also welcome as ponies can be provided. People who sign up to the workshops will learn to handle their own foal before it goes home with them. The foal can be kept at local facilities after the sale until the day of the workshop at no extra cost and they will be ready to greet their owner on the day.
The course will help guide you to touch your foal and put a head collar on before teaching it to lead. Some may well progress further but we don’t put undue pressure on the foal as the emphasis is on a trusting partnership. Techniques and guidance on all future work with your foal will be given and there will always be people on the end of the phone to help.
The actual workshops will run for 2 days on the 9th and 10th October with Sunday 11th October being open to the general public as part of the Dartmoor Pony Training Centre’s annual open day. We would hope to work with you and your pony on this day for free to show what has been achieved in just a couple of days.
Workshops cost £50 per day to work with a foal and £10 per day for spectators.
If you would like to work with a foal but do not wish to buy one, or would like to work with a youngster but are not sure if you like to buy one it can be arranged for other ponies to be at the event for you to work with and if you then wanted to purchase one you can.
More details: Dartmoor Pony Training Centre on 01364 644224 or e-mail Kathryn at dartmoorponytrainingcentre@yahoo.co.uk
Book now to avoid disappointment!
Owning a Dartmoor Pony is fun, but can also be a terrific challenge, especially if you buy one straight from the moors at the sales. A special workshop dedicated to helping you learn how to handle feral ponies will give you the experience and confidence you need to make your new partnership immensely rewarding and satisfying both for you and your pony. Spectators are also welcome to pick up training tips.
The Dartmoor Pony Training Centre will be running a Dartmoor Hill Pony Workshop on 09, 10 and 11th October with Sarah Weston of Intelligent Horsemanship, renowned for her work with unhandled feral ponies including New Forests, Exmoors and Dartmoors.
The dates have been set to encourage people to work with a foal or pony they have bought at the sale before they take it home resulting in both having a good grounding and knowledge for their new lives together. Because the work will be intensive there are limited spaces – so book your place quickly. People who are thinking about buying in the future are also welcome as ponies can be provided. People who sign up to the workshops will learn to handle their own foal before it goes home with them. The foal can be kept at local facilities after the sale until the day of the workshop at no extra cost and they will be ready to greet their owner on the day.
The course will help guide you to touch your foal and put a head collar on before teaching it to lead. Some may well progress further but we don’t put undue pressure on the foal as the emphasis is on a trusting partnership. Techniques and guidance on all future work with your foal will be given and there will always be people on the end of the phone to help.
The actual workshops will run for 2 days on the 9th and 10th October with Sunday 11th October being open to the general public as part of the Dartmoor Pony Training Centre’s annual open day. We would hope to work with you and your pony on this day for free to show what has been achieved in just a couple of days.
Workshops cost £50 per day to work with a foal and £10 per day for spectators.
If you would like to work with a foal but do not wish to buy one, or would like to work with a youngster but are not sure if you like to buy one it can be arranged for other ponies to be at the event for you to work with and if you then wanted to purchase one you can.
More details: Dartmoor Pony Training Centre on 01364 644224 or e-mail Kathryn at dartmoorponytrainingcentre@yahoo.co.uk