This year is setting up to be a very busy year for Agility in North America!  Clinics are filling up almost as quickly as they are posted.

People are realizing that it is a sport everyone with an equine, a rope and a halter can have fun with!  What a great way to improve your relationship with our beloved horses. A true friendship based relationship, much like the one we have with our pet dogs!  One where we no longer have to carry a whip or stick to gain the cooperation of a horse.

With patient, sympathetic, thoughtful training our partner, the horse becomes our equal. We learn their language, we don’t coerce, beg or force, we now teach by asking, allowing, watching, waiting and rewarding. We truly communicate!

The fun and enjoyment  escalates as you advance your level of communication and body language so you and your equine almost breath together.  Synchronicity, in a loving and respectful kinship.

The reward you get from your horse will warm your heart, the love you give in the process will melt theirs.

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What is Horse Agility

“A discipline and internationally competitive sport in which horse and handler, both on foot, navigate a course of obstacles while focusing on clear communication and positive horsemanship”. ( Les Kiger, USA Horse Agility Accredited Trainer).

About The International Horse Agility Club

The Horse Agility Club is an International club that promotes the competitive side of Horse Agility by standardizing the rules of competition.

The Club also oversees the recruitment of responsible well trained instructors who will uphold the values of the sport for horse and handler in whatever school of horsemanship they have trained.

Horse Agility brings together people who have been practicing horse agility worldwide and support those who would like to become part of a competitive arm.

The Club now has over 400 members in  the UK alone with overseas membership growing, 40 registered instructors and over 450 horses registered as Agility Horses. Horse Agility is not just about playing with horses it strengthens the bond between horse and handler without gadgets or quick fixes, indeed the aim of Horse Agility always is for the horse to run completely free of any restraint, directed round a course of obstacles by the handler.

But that is not where we start, the loose horse running freely beside a handler is the dramatic public face of the sport but supporting this image are many participants starting their learning with the horse on a lead rope slowly negotiating obstacles. This level is just as valid to support as the high level competitor indeed good solid early training is vital to make a polished finished product. People and their horses will have fun just playing together over obstacles and some will take it further to compete at the highest levels all are important here.

This is a very powerful sport but always we think of the emotional welfare of the horses and their handlers being positive about the standards they have achieved and offering support to help them move on.

Barb Fenwick is a certified and accredited Horse Agility Clinician, Presenter, Trainer and Judge.  She travels in North America to train and present Horse Agility. It is the Club’s mandate and hope to spread the news about this fun and rewarding sport and recruit qualified horsewomen and men to further develop the world wide web of Horse Agility Trainers and Leaders.  

“I love spreading the word about horse agility near and far!  Barb gives lessons, judges events and gives demonstrations at events in Canada and United States.   Consider booking lessons and mini-competitions at your stable or facility!  Barb Fenwick


Barb Fenwick – bfenwick@xplornet.com, 204-466-2776
Visit my page on The Horse Agility Website –   http://www.thehorseagilityclub.com/portfolio/barb-fenwick/