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Kelly Marks and her Team are back for her popular May Masterclasses across the South. A natural teacher who generously shares her passion and knowledge with humour, these Masterclasses promise to leave you inspired and equipped with new skills to try with your own horse. There will be appearances from Kelly's own horses, including the celebrity American Pie, and youngster Corky; showing their various stages of training, with ridden demonstrations of how you can increase your riding enjoyment and adventure!

Kelly Marks is protégé of Monty Roberts and trusted teacher of his non-violent methods. She has written three top selling Horsemanship books; Perfect Manners, Perfect Partners and Perfect Confidence and stars on the Horsemanship Essentials series on Horse and Country TV. Kelly's ridden career includes Championships in Racing and Show Jumping and in 2009 Royal Windsor Pro-Am TREC Champion. This wealth of real life experience enables the audience to see how understanding horse psychology can make enormous difference in practical terms.

This fun and informative evening that will suit younger people as well as adults, there will be opportunities for audience participation, and also expert displays and presentations in the Intelligent Horsemanship Shopping Village before the main demonstration.

Watch Kelly work with different local 'problem' horses, and see for yourself just how she works through their various challenges, be it spooking, refusing, fear issues, biting or anything else.

The Kelly marks clinics are to be held as follows:

• Friday 27th May 2011 Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8PY.
• Saturday 28th May 2011 Eaglesfield EC West Yoke, Ask, near Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 7HT.
• Sunday 29th May 2011 Berkshire College Burchetts Green, near Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 6QR.

Doors open at 6pm every night with the main demo 7.30pm to 10pm.

Tickets £20 but to PPE members and Intelligent Horse members £15. More details: www.intelligenthorsemanship.co.uk 01488 71300.

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