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There’s grass and then there’s grass isn’t there. A postage stamp monoculture of overgrazed and stress grass with no root depth likely...

Regardless of any legalities and whilst commend wearing some hi viz I deplore the use of the phrase about a horse.

This has been handled exceptionally poorly imo even if I do think a lot of the sick horse claims are likely coincidence. Even just...

Pet food legally needs to have accurate nutritional information and ingredients

2 winters ago I took a bold step - stripped out 4 internal stables and cut a big hole in the back of my American barn and had a...

That no matter how windy it is, how deep the mud, how freezing cold it is, how hard it's raining, how deep the snow is, how slippery the...

This is going to sound bitchy, but how... different people's standards of care can be 😂 but its gone both directions for me! And the...

Put it this way, the horse should move into walk from a featherlight kiss of the legs with a well positioned rider who is not...

I'm in two minds minds reading this: 1) are you trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? If his true nature really is to be...

Does he really know what the leg aid means, then? It sounds like he was never taught to maintain the pace/tempo on his own. The...

To date the hunts have cheerfully sacrificed their lower ranks, the terrier men et al, when the Police are on them re illegal hunting...

This has surely gone beyond a joke, :eek:

And I’ve just looked and he won £1.1 million in prize money. Ffs.

Ok, but it's not just not individual vets, it's the whole profession that is handcuffed into doing it this way by the laws of our...

You can’t do dressage in a double bridle until you have reached elementary and if your horse is not going correctly in a snaffle through...