About Me

My Horsemanship Journey

I have been passionate about horses all my life. For many years as a young girl I would help out at my local livery and riding schools learning the basics of horse handling/keeping skills. As a young lady, in London, I spent most of my wages on riding lessons where I was taught dressage and jumping.

Since owning my own horses I have thought hard about how I would like to be around them and how I would like to train them. I decided that Natural Horsemanship was the positive and progressive way forward, not only for my horses and their confidence, but for me and my confidence too. I have studied Horsemanship on a full time basis since 2000 and have be instructing students on their horses since 2004.

I now own 4 horses, with my husband here in Perthshire Scotland, and they range from a 15hh gypsy cob, two warmbloods and an 18.2hh Shire. I have brought all these horses up to a safe, confident level of horsemanship and two of them are being brought through too a more skilled level now.

I took up Horse Agility in 2011 and was the first winner of the OLHA tests in Feb 2011. OLHA is online Horse Agility where you set up the course at home, practice, it and video yourself with your horse doing the course. Then you send it in to the HA club (if you are a member) and get it judged by Vannessa Bee, the HA club founder. 

Solly and I have had a lot of fun doing these monthly tests. I am now a HAAT (Horse Agility Accredited Trainer) and help train others to do the tests of this fast growing horsemanship sport.

To see my past tests go here: http://horsesavvy1.blogspot.co.uk/

Hope to see you somewhere along the trail

Shelley Newton-Carter