This is Magic and Merlin, the two wild Bodmin moor ponies, going out for a ride. It's been three years since Jenny and I went to stay at Tabs and George's house overnight so that we could spend a couple of days using the No Fear, No Force techniques on these ponies. Merlin, the older one of the two, would practically climb the walls when a human went in to his stable and obviously had a very jaundiced view of people. Magic simply turned his bottom on anything and anyone he didn't like. I think that the early work we did changed their minds forever and set them up for success. Since then Tabs has done all the day in, day out work with them and achieved more than anyone might have thought possible. Ponies like these and Benji, prove that wild, and sometimes traumatised ponies, can be brought round if people stop acting like predators and act like partners instead.
