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Lesley Skipper

Lesley Skipper spent her early childhood in North Yorkshire obsessed with horses, but then lost touch with the horse world until adulthood. She spent the interim years travelling and studying Russian history, going off to Russia on her own at a time when very few Western Europeans went there.

Marriage into a horsey family rekindled her early enthusiasm for horses. She and her husband soon acquired an expanding 'family' of horses, which they keep purely for the pleasure of working with them, training them and in turn learning from them. Voluntary redundancy after nearly 20 years in the Civil Service enabled her to realise a cherished project of writing a book about Arabian horses (The Arabian Show Horse, published by JA Allen).

In 1999 JA Allen published her second book, Inside Your Horse's Mind, and she is currently working on a third.

She writes about equestrian matters and Russian history and has contributed to various magazines, including Horse & Rider, Riding, Horse, Dressage, and various regional newspapers and magazines.

As well as being an Internet Liaison member for the Classical Riding Club, she is a regular contributor to the latter's quarterly Newsletter.

Lesley Skipper and her husband share their lives with a dog, two cats and eight horses: four pure bred Arabians (a stallion, two mares and a gelding); an Arabian X Hanoverian gelding; a Cleveland Bay X Thoroughbred mare and her son (another gelding) by a Belgian Warmblood; and the same mare's daughter by their Arabian stallion.

Lesley can be contacted at:

Phone/Fax: 01642 650902
Mobile: 07776 426118.

Lesley@ashtree33.freeserve.co.uk

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