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All event horses need to get used to.....

He is gorgeous!

Those furry ears !!! 🥰🥰🥰

Woohoo he's loving that @millitiger! I had a lovely Myka-day today. On Friday we jumping lesson off-site and she (and I!) had a lot to think about with rapid lead changes as we crossed diagonals. She was super confident and willing. She had the weekend off and so I was looking forward to...

That's true but humans gonna human. Welfare agencies can and should protect horses so much better than they do. And perhaps cultural attitudes might shift if change came from the top. I am sure child labour law reforms were seen as ludicrous woke pandering at the time.

Just to add to this - Zack is also on record from historical tweets as condemning use of horses in sport, and at the Olympics. As a vegan that is not a surprising stance for an individual to have. But there is a massive difference between what his personal values might be and what Green Party...

Yes - it's systems not people that are the problem. People live within systems. If systems reward animal abuse and punish welfare then nothing well ever improve for horses. In higher level dressage, stress and conflict behaviours have been shown to be rewarded in marking. In racing, jockeys...

Oh I know. I am happy with the progress. I am just itching to get properly going! It's funny how some targets feel so far away until suddenly they don't. Plus although the pro at Somerford jumped her bigger, this was more technical - he had her in a nice forward canter in a very big space...

All the stories today stem from a 2018 tweet by Zack criticising the national. It’s just trying to shift attention from what he’s actually focused on like rent controls, water renationalisation, taxing extreme wealth and green energy. Those policies were attacked as lunacy but are very popular...

This! The leap from describing condemning whipping a seriously injured horse to the line after he went down with his back end as 'hysterical' to oh well lets all quit riding then is just indicative of the total refusal to even consider horse welfare as a serious topic for discussion in many part...

I could be wrong as I have not studied data but my impression is eventing is better than this. I cannot believe any event rider would carry on after a near-fall like that and riders regularly retire horses who don't feel quite right. And ground judges pull up tired combinations. I don't like...

Continuing risking video exposure! But I am super happy with her in her jumping lesson today. Yes the jumps are TINY, but I don't think that really matters. We had a small course of poles then jumps: 2 jumps on the diagonal and a double along one long side, so the course was: pick up canter in...

So I picked Myka up from Somerford 13 weeks ago. I know that because my wall calendar is full! Looking at this, I am quite proud of the consistency. She's been worked 5 times a week on average and the occasional 4 times a week has been unavoidable. I have ridden in biblical conditions and...

I don't really know much about Vaquero either. He is trying to train Remy to be a 'fully finished bridle horse' and to then be able to ride him in a spade bit. Apparently that takes years and he is far from sure Remy will ever get there, but that is the aim. But I'm just not that interested so...

Thanks @j1ffy I may be trying to fit square pegs into round holes and I should just accept that I need to ride slightly differently for dressage, SJ and XC. Joe would say he comes from the Vaquero tradition. But he is hard to classify because he trained with Buck B but has moved away...