Exploring topics on horse training & welfare
From the monthly archives:
Recently, an interesting article written by an Australian gentleman by the name of John O’Leary was brought to my attention (thank-you Beks!).
Mr O’Leary has given horse transport and safety a lot of thought and provides a detailed account of how he thinks horses perceive their world and its impacts on their travelling problems. To access this opinion-piece [...]
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Dressage Disgrace’s teleseminar with Klaus Hempfling on Rollkur was illuminating – it is important that we have these conversations, and I would like to thank Mark from Dressage Disgrace for making this conversation possible.
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What did Klaus say?
Klaus said that the dignity of the horse is lost, his sight is hampered and respiration is hindered when [...]
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Over on Twitter, TrotonTV (John Bethell) wanted my thoughts on Anky van Grunsven’s reply about her student Patrik Kittel’s ‘Blue Tongue’ video recording, now being investigated by FEI. (I also wrote about it here).
140 tweet characters does not allow a particularly thorough reply!
So John, here you go…
We must use a degree of caution, knowing that [...]
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I have been reading an excellent book by Mark Russell and Andrea Steele, Lessons in Lightness – the art of educating the horse. Not only reading the book, but experimenting with my clients and their horses (with their permission, of course!). In this way I have been able to assess the ease of understanding and [...]
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