22 February Au revoir les chevaux

Monday 22 February 2016

A good nights sleep, a shower and a huge dutch breakfast greeted us this morning. The owner-rider of the horses had just flown in from a round of the sunshine tour in Spain where she has been trying a new horse she is thinking of buying.

I asked them how they had met Willy. Her husband told me that it was through a mutual friend, the famous haptonome, Ted Troost. See  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xswdcOCZoms Ted had spent a day with Willy at Willy's invitation after Willy had read his book. Geertrude told me that they were like 2 peas from the same pod. The rider's husband, met Ted through a golf acquaintance. The husband is not horsey (in fact he is allergic to horses) but he likes to see his wife and her horses in good energy. The rider had been having problems with her approach to fences and so he contacted Ted for help. Ted told them about Willy Sidorak and that he thought Willy could help her and her horses. The rest is history as they say.

We went to the stables to work the horses. The rider told me that the chestnut mare was injured on the electric fencing soon after she bought her. The grey had problems with her right shoulder. Both horses had been tense and working short and for this reason she had called Willy and the horses have been with Willy for the last 3 months.

Each horse was worked systematically. First loose on the flat, then loose over a fence and then ridden…first by Willy, then by the owner coached by Willy. I asked the owner what differences she felt as a result of their stay at Willys. She told me that they were both moving freely again. More relaxed. More forward. More willing to work. Job well done!