Horsepower
I have just been watching the TV programme Horsepower presented by Martin Clunes exploring the relationship between man and horse and the history of the horse. I hadn't appreciated that it was the start of a series and have just spent the last hour enthralled. I was bought up around horses and learnt from an early age how to socialise with them. I had heard of horse whisperers but never seen them in action and it was lovely to see the response from the horses and the interaction between them and Martin by using a simple technique and it was magic to watch. Although I was bought up around horses from an early age I never learned to ride (my great aunt had a riding school. She owned Wellingore Hall in Wellingore near Lincoln a large country house and country estate that was turned into private rented rooms for professional people. Many of the horses were around when I was tiny, they were gradually sold off or passed from old age. However, I certainly ...