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The Science of Natural Horsemanship and Join-Up I first met Monty Roberts in September last year through Dr Veronica Fowler, a former student of mine. I then spent a day with Monty, Kelly Marks and Veronica to see Monty working with some horses and to talk to him about his methods. I was somewhat dissapointed to hear that he had received a lot of criticism from animal scientists over the years. It was not the criticism itself that was a cause for sadness but the fact that no-one had ever taken him up on his offer to scientifically study his methods. So we put together a plan to study "Join-Up" at Hartpury College. The team working on the project includes internationally recognised animal behaviour scientist Dr Mark Kennedy from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Kathryn Nankervis and Lucy Dumbell from Hartpury College. The first studies took place the first week in February and we are now begining the huge task of analysing all the heart rate and video reocrdings that were made over the two days of studies. The results should be available in the late Spring to early Summer this year.
Kelly Marks, myself, Dr Veronica Fowler and Monty Roberts
Fitting a heart rate monitor to a horse about to be "joined-up"
Myself and Monty after a horse that would not load had been "joined-up" and successfully loaded
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