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Ride all you like, compete all you like, I just don't think there should be prize money - and if sports die as a result, then it was...

I was going to wait, but updating this now for my own mental health and because I think if anyone else googles horse hiccups this might...

I absolutely agree - they can become habituated to the process in some training scenarios, and if taking food is part of that habituated...

It is very very rare for someone to use no pressure and release at all. Rein aids are pressure and release Leg aids are pressure and...

The R doesn't stand for reward, it stands for reinforcement. R+ is ANYTHING that gets added to a learner's environment that they find...

I'm not really sure where this thread turned into a pro R+/anti R+ thing... I think those of saying we are uncomfortable with SY (and...

Gah, I really wasn't going to get involved in this 🤦‍♀️. I can't understand the continual desire from some posters to dismiss R+, it...

As per my answer in post 128, if you think entering the stable with a rope is the starting point then you are just completely...

That is because people who train ethically do not force a horse over threshold during training; they start from a place the horse is ok...

You need to change yards that offer turn out. Can't expect a horse to stay in a stable most of the time.

Why are we giving only 2 possibly outcomes? Either the horse is interred in its stable for eternity or lives happily ever after with its...

Happy new year everyone! Just popping in with a few photos. Atlas grew up a lot today. He had his first long reining session with the...