Catch up on the latest news from the equine world. Everything from competition results, law changes and new research. You can find it all here.
Last year we said a sad farewell to Sir Mark Todd, the eventing legend as he retired from eventing for the last time. He is my all-time favourite rider. Not only was he hugely successful, he rode what looked to be very sharp horses, had incredible balance and was a…
A few years ago Sue Dyson did a study which found that 47% of sports horses had pain related gait abnormalities. She has recently done a second study looking at 60 sports and riding horses and found that 73% of the horses were mildly lame in one or more legs.…
A month after flat racing returned to the UK, we are now set to see the return of National Hunt racing too! This is particularly exciting for me with the majority of my Owners Group horses being National Hunt horses. Chez Hans had a quick spin on the flat earlier…
In line with Government guidelines, racing closed it’s doors back in March and racing fans have been eagerly awaiting news of it starting up again. From April there were rumours of starting again as soon as the Government relaxed the lockdown with the BHA putting plans in place so that…
It was announced last night that stricter measures are being put in place to try and stop the spread of Covid-19. These measures include only leaving the house for essentials such as food and medical shopping and only going outside your property for exercise once a day. There has been…
Earlier this week British Dressage announced that they were changing there vaccination rules from 12 months to 6 months. While this rule was already in place for the FEI and for horse racing, it has caused a bit of a stir among BD riders. Equine Flu Still Here At the…
We’ve all been there, you are looking at the race card and you have no idea where to put your money. So you use the age old trick of picking the horse with the best name, nicest silks or based on the jockey. But a recent study has found that…
Do you ever think you are boring all your non horsey Facebook friends with endless updates about your horse? Then take a look at the Horsey Social Media platform Digital Horse.
I received an email this week from one of my followers saying that they have difficulties reading and if there was any way I could include an audio version of my posts. Well I am pleased to announce that this is now live! In fact just above this paragraph there…
Some of you may know from previous posts I have written, I do enjoy a good console game! Having grown up with the likes of the Pippa Funnell games, I have high expectations of horse games. And apart from Champion Jockey Racer game which came out on Xbox 360 a…
There were 3 ex racehorses competing in Eventing at this year’s World Equestrian Games at Tyron, USA. (1 more than I originally thought!) All 3 horses did a fantastic job, despite the extreme weather conditions caused by Hurricane Florence. Arctic Soul (GB) The first ex racehorse is a real favourite…
This year I have written a few posts about how I think the FEI needs to change how it responds to cases where the rider has over used the whip, perhaps by looking into some of the horse racing legislation on this topic. Because my thoughts on this topic were…
4 months ago social media exploded after the performance of Oliver Townend at Badminton horse trials and his use of the whip on both of his horses. He was given a verbal warning and allowed to continue with the competition. At the time, many in the horse industry thought this…
After an extremely exciting two jumping phases at Burghley, Tim Price made it a Price 4 star double by winning Burghley Horse Trials 2018. This success comes after his wife Jonelle Price won Badminton earlier this year. They will both be attending the World Equestrian Games later this month as…
The two days of dressage are over at Burghley and largely thanks to the new scoring system, the leaderboard is really close! There were so many lovely tests with very few tantrums or major spooks. So letβs quickly run through the leaders and where my favourites are currently sitting after…
