Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling will be coming to the UK on 25 October 2008 for the first time to demonstrate his astonishing ability to transform nervous, dangerous ‘Borderline’ horses.
Klaus recognises that some 80% of horses bred for a specific purpose adapt reasonably successfully to conventional training and that it is the remainder that continue to challenge their handlers, owners and trainers.
It is these horses that Klaus refers to as ‘Borderline’. Depending on the horse’s individual personality some Borderline horses can be given a more or less comfortable life but often they will be abandoned as ‘hopeless’ cases or in some cases passed to inexperienced handlers at low prices, which can be dangerous for all concerned.
Klaus’s unique approach to these Borderline horses transforms them and allows them to lead a fulfilling and happy life. The process of working with Borderline cases offers anyone with responsibility for horses the chance to find a new way of working in harmony with any horse, not just the extremely difficult ones, by recognising the unique characters of individual horses and developing successful strategies for a safer, more trusting relationship between horse and handler.
This unique approach is focussed not on insisting the horse behaves in a certain way but on how the human behaves in the presence of the horse.
The Borderline Demonstration will be held on Sat Oct 25 at Hartpury Arena. The cost to attend this event is £75.
Here's a picture of Klaus working with Phaeton, a Breton Stallion from the Spanish National Stud.
He'd not been out of his box for months because the officers feared for their lives.
And here's the same horse moments later.
Klaus does not buy in to any kind of fight with the horse. He shows the horse his inner strength and he shows the horse he has total compassion for his situation. Klaus says he simply allows the horse to 'come back to himself'.
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