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It's been said often enough that if horses vocalised like dogs none of this stuff would be happening to them.

We may disagree on some other things, but I couldn't agree more with you on this.

Horse owner of nearly sixty years. I now appreciate the gift of not riding. No guilt. No pressure. Just feeding,grooming,being with them...

Here are some quite astonishing oral (and other) conflict behaviours very recently from a horse that's clearly struggling on multiple...

I was going to say this too, if you're at the point where the tongue is blue there is no way on this good green earth that there aren't...

How does that argument work when the colour of the tongue may not be 'accurately' rendered but it still clearly differs from the mucosa...

Proving it in a way the FEI would accept is another matter I suspect.

Failing to provide raw images is a problem but most of us who are trying to make a judgement with the evidence available to us, and are...

Princess Polly has lost her brother, it’s payback for her hiding in the cupboard last week

That seems to relate to lesions, rather than ischemia, although it wouldn't be surprising if the two go together. There was a long...

? I was referring to the likelihood of the FEI demanding proof that spur damage looked a certain way on thermal scanning, and the...

And not only allowing all the metal work but removing the automatic blood disqualification rule as well 🙄 people actually voted in...

If you're checking mouths then polo... I exercised polo horses and the state of some coming back from a weekend competing made me cry...

Yep, time limit for the jockey alone to ride the horse into the stalls, and obviously no (excessive I guess, if we have to) use of the...

On a different point, it’s not uncommon for competitors going SJ or XC to raise their hands and retire if it’s not going well. Perhaps...