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Melissa Kite — after nearly 40 years of riding, all I know is: horses are horses. They are not people

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

5 October 2013

9:00 AM

Natural horsemanship has a lot to answer for. After a cross country event the other day, I rode back to my trailer to find the two women parked next to me doing some very strange things as they loaded their horse.

One woman led the pony up the ramp quite efficiently, flicking it with the rope to stop it hesitating and then shut it inside.

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