Kerry Turner started riding at the age of 11. She gave up ponies in pursuit of academic excellence, achieving a first class honours degree in Mathematics, a Masters degree in Operational Research (applying analytical techniques in business decision making) and a host of prizes and awards. She joined business advisory services firm, Deloitte Haskins & Sells, in 1985. Over the next 20 years, she grew a successful performance management service-line within the consultancy. Analytical techniques, in particular, Systems Thinking, and a quest for the truth, underpinned her work in many global organisations.
She took up riding again in 1992. She competed her own Part-bred Arab, Shantie, in all 3 disciplines. She was an active member of Hitchin Riding Club representing the club in national team competitions and organising dressage competitions for club members. She was also a founder member and chairperson of Ampthill & District Bridleways Association. Achievements here included successfully fighting a local bridleway closure and raising money through sponsored rides to support bridleway maintenance. Her drive to improve her knowledge of horses lead her to Moulton College to study to British Horse Society stage 4 part-time.
She suffered from lower back problems. In her search for help she studied the Alexander Technique as a pupil of Gloria Pullan (senior tutor at STAT). More recently she has been learning Bodycontrol Pilates with a trainer in France. Her growing interest in dressage led her to seek guidance from John Micklem (Irish event trainer), Inger Bryant (Swedish List 1 Judge) and to study as a trainee judge with British Dressage. Kerry’s passion for learning saw her travelling the country to attend lectures, demos and training events on her favourite subject. Her passion for learning is well matched by her passion for sharing. Kerry has written a number of articles over the years, many of which have been published in “Horse & Rider” magazine.
In 2005 Kerry decided to leave the business world and to start a new career in writing. In this, her first book, Kerry applies the techniques she used to understand and improve business performance to do the same for riding.
Kerry can be contacted via her website at www.kerryturner.net.
Anne Fenn has been obsessed with ponies since the age of ten. Her passion was fuelled by half hour Saturday riding lessons, which rapidly expanded to spending whole weekends helping out at the riding school. These days provided endless material on which to base written school homework (illustrations, of course, being essential).
On leaving school Anne was adamant that she was going to work with horses. She trained for her BHSAI as a working pupil with Mrs J Leggett at Arundel Riding School. She completed her training and exams at Wellington Riding. Following this she practised for several years as a riding instructor and stable manager.
More recently, Anne gained an HNC in Equine Studies by distance learning with Warwickshire College. She became a registered identifier for the Horse Passport Agency and a nutritional advisor for a leading UK horse feed manufacturer.
Drawing horses has consistently been Anne’s ‘after dark’ pastime and she is now developing this talent as an occupation.
Anne can be contacted by email at anne.fenn.fenn@btinternet.com.
Index
acceptance, 20, 73
adaptation, 221-225
Alexander Technique, 134-136
attention, 95-96
balance, 89-95
Baucher, Francois, 116, 229
behind the vertical, 66-67
Belasik, Paul, 48, 76, 84, 118, 148, 158, 161, 166, 228
breathe, breathing, 84-85, 110, 134
Bryant, Inger, 18, 98, 107, 120, 128,
Burger, Udo, 24,205,228
calmness, 48-55, 109-110, 122
canter, 97, 156-158
causal loop diagram, (CLD), 40-41
collection, 114-118
communication, 26, 96-102
competition, 162-163
concentration, 56
connection, 47->, 52-57
contact, 58->
copying, 220
Covey, Stephen, 22, 90, 228
decontraction, 109, 121-122
de Kunffy, Charles, 145, 229
definiteness, 104
dressage, 18
driver tree, 40
engagement, 148, 160
equilibrium, 42
feedback, 36-39
FEI, 18, 58, 228
Fernyhough, Kate, 229, 233-238
fitness, 138-139
focus, 85-86
give & retake, 86-88
giravolta, 148, 156
girth, 194, 197
Global Dressage Forum, 114, 123, 229
half halt, 73, 159
halt, 73, 100-101, 152
harmony, 7, 52
Harris, Charles, 193, 229
Harris, Thomas, 127, 229
Hempfling, Klaus Ferdinand, 64, 166, 188, 193, 229
Henriquet, Michel, 75, 95, 158, 214, 228
Herbermann, Erik, 113, 228
impulsion, 112, 120, 149
Klimke, Reiner, 18, 200, 228
knowledge, 213-216
Kyrklund, Kyra, 159, 229
learning cycle, 208-210
learning rider, 207-208
leg position, 83-84
leg yield, 155
leverage, 45
lunging, 141-144, 200-201, 203-204
massage, 152, 246-247
mental model, 31-32
Micklem, John, 17, 111, 122, 176, 252
Micklem, William, 64, 83, 98, 189, 200
Moffett, Heather, 75, 187, 205, 228
motorcycle trials, 223
Museler, Wilhelm, 129, 229
Niggli, Wolfgang, 114, 229
noseband, 189-191
numnah, 194-196
Oliveira, Nuno, 59, 64, 228, 232
osteopathy, 239-245
outline, 9, 129, 147, 160
persistence, 104
Pilates, 132-134, 233-238
Podhajsky, Alois, 102, 114, 191, 228
reading, 214-215
rein back, 155
rein equilibrium, 68-69
relationship (between variables), 33-34
relaxation, 32, 109
Sandin, Theresa, 115, 149, 204, 229
safety, 217-220
scales of training, 112-114
seat, 77-85
self carriage, 87, 95
Senge, Peter, 46, 229
straightness, 118-119
submission, see acceptance
suppleness, 74, 113
Swift, Sally, 86, 91, 214, 228
swimming, 10, 221-223
system, 23-25
Systems Thinking, 32-41, 215-216
tension, 52, 109
thinking funnel, 211-212
tracking up, 161
transitions, 42, 97, 149, 154, 160
trot, 158-161
variable, 32-33
Vensim, 120, 230
walk, 146, 152
Wanless, Mary, 64, 65, 83, 228
Weis, Richard, 125, 136, 229
wisdom, 210