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 let’s quickly run through the leaders and where my favourites are currently sitting after…
With Burghley kicking off today with the dressage, you may have noticed that my list of 3 ex racehorses competing has dropped to one. Ben Way and Galley Light are the only ex racehorse combination tackling Burghley this year. Withdrawals Boyd Martin withdrew Steadie Eddie due to injury/fitness, which is…
Today the second half of riders took to the dressage arena for the first phase of the competition. With a change to the dressage scoring, making Show Jumping and Cross Country time penalties more influential, the results are extremely close with very little separating the tops riders. Just 1 second…
So far this year we have had some truly awful weather. This has led to many events being cancelled, which in turn has affected training programs and led to lots of horses being withdrawn in the run up to Badminton. I think this must have also affected the ex racehorses…
This years Grand National was won by the small but mighty Tiger Roll, who ran his heart out under jockey Davy Russell. Trained by Gordon Elliott, this little horse was the winner of Friday nights Virtual Grand National and came to race on the back of winning the Cross Country…
