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2011 HORSELESS CLINICS

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PARELLI CELEBRATION
April 9th & 10th April 2011

Your wait is over! This Friday, 5th November 2010, tickets go on sale for the Parelli Celebration of "Horsenality" at the LG Arena - NEC Birmingham.

Join Pat and Linda for two days of inspiration, fun and education as you learn what makes your horse tick, what's important to him, what motivates or excites him...
It will be a life-changing event for you and your horses!

  Advance Ticket Prices
November 5th through December 31st 2010
Savvy Club Price: £69.00
Non Member: £99.00
Child: £39.00
Groups: BUY 10 TICKETS FOR £500.00

PURCHASE THROUGH YOUR UK OFFICE BY DEC 31, 2010 AND RECEIVE A £20 GIFT VOUCHER TO USE AT THE EVENT!*

To secure your tickets at these great prices,* call our UK team on:
0800 0234 813 or +44 2476 692 888

* Gift voucher offer only available for tickets purchased directly through our UK office. There are no booking or transaction fees for all tickets booked directly through the UK office, and seating will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

ANGER OVER THE FESTIVAL OF THE HORSE DISPLAY
Report from H&H Issue 22 July 2010

A furore has broken out over Pat Parelli's treatment of showjumper Robert Whitaker's horse Catwalk during a demonstration at the Royal Festival of the Horse (9-11th July). The Parelli's were trying to put a bridle on the reluctant horse using their natural horsemanship technique. But angry spectators branded their actions as "abusive" after the stallion was twitched and hobbled in the two hour session.

The demo has led to 1.150 people joining a Facebook group called "Parelli is neither "natural" or "horsemanship" daming Pat Parelli's techniques and there's a 57 page debate on the H&H online forum. Forum user Elsbells was there. "I'm as mad as a snake about it all," she wrote and Chestnutty Mare added: "How can anyone say that the horse wasn't distressed. Where was the dignity in all this?" Another forum user noted: "We were unable to watch anymore and had to walk out," with another saying: "It was my first Parelli experience and it will be my last." There is also an online petition to urge equine welfare charities to look into the Parelli demonstration.

But Alice Bell from the Royal Festival of the Horse, told H&H: "We immediately went to inspect the horse with the senior vet. He examined him and was completely satisfied the horse's welfare had not been compromised." A spokesman for Parelli said: "We do feel that we made some mistakes and want to apologise for them." And Pat Parelli told H&H: "Although we at Parelli, the vet and the owners of Catwalk are all perfectly happy that the stallion is of fine health and suffered no duress, we are ready to accept that nothing we nor our community of Parelli practitioners say will change the mind of a few hundred people who are out to shout us down."

Robert Whitaker said he felt the situation had perhaps been blown all out of propotion.

UK Parelli Centre

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