Author Archives: Martin Whitley

We’ve had an interesting couple of weeks, Tommy decided he had an Ouchy foot just before Liskeard show ( we think he was pulling a fast one as he didn’t want to return to Cornwall, having escaped once) so poor Weaam, who was supposed to be seconding him got chucked in at the deep endContinue reading “Onwards”

We’ve only ever had One Falconry pony that came here that appeared ready made, and that was Tommy (Myladtommy )…actually he’d never been near a hawk but took to it so instantly that we never had a chance to make him as such it was already in his fantastic personality  So I thought I’d boreContinue reading “Weaam’s Journey”

I started using horses for falconry by accident really, I’d just started Dartmoor Hawking, (this was 2001)and was keeping my Hawks and living in a mobile home on a farm near Bovey Tracey, but I kept my horse and was exercising the hawks at Holwell, what was then the family farm near Widecombe in theContinue reading “The trail to where we are today”

One of the great things we have found working with the Recycled Racehorse is their versatility, so we now work on the assumption that they will do everything we ask unless proven otherwise. Our first foray into film work was “a couple of hours , nothing strenuous “…..8 hours of filming with an eagle, aContinue reading “The versatility of the recycled racehorses “

I’m so often asked how we achieve what we do with reputedly scatty thoroughbreds. Unfortunately, thoroughbreds do get a bad press, very unjustified as a whole, I Remeber being told years ago by a rather pompous woman on a rather round cob that if I was going to use horses in my falconry I would need somethingContinue reading “From racehores to real job”

Combining the two arts of Falconry and riding, Using an intrinsically wild animal along with one of our longest domesticated species, the ultimate predator in conjunction with one of the ultimate flight/prey species…..A recipe for disaster  or an amazing combination? Just to make it more interesting I only use -Recycled racehorses to fly pursuit falcons andContinue reading “The recycled racehorse “