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Tell me about it! One way for the Council to make money out of equine people.

Because the land is classed as agricultural horses can only grass. If you want to rug, feed, ride etc the land has to be equestrian...

Egos get in the way

My old cob has started rubbing his mane a bit; I have considered putting a fly rug on him but the ground is still so wet, it would need...

I think this is pertinent, as is in the public domain, posted by the police at 14.50 today.

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

There was a post on one of the DD pages by someone who was basically shaming the victims for taking the horses on trial. Didn’t go down...

I trim my own horses’ feet, and I’d be horrified if I ever left a foot with that amount of mediolateral imbalance 😳. It’s something I...

looks a bit egregious to not be noticed. You'd notice that blindfolded.

I’d want to see them with pony stood up on them but from just these pics I wouldn’t be happy with the trim

Iberians are a lot less bouncy than WBs. Gaits are pretty smooth in comparison. And many are more than capable of the GP movements like...

Can any of these people actually ride? Im really starting to wonder, given i dont count sawing and spurring as skilled...

If welfare was front and central they'd ride in a way (or learn to ride in a way) that doesn't have a risk of leaving marks.

Righto. How difficult would it be for all horses (or maybe even just the high scorers?) to have their mouths examined for recent...

I think the warm up should be open to public viewing and all horses in the warm up should be individually followed by a camera and...