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In a national ride last weekend in Al Wathba UAE a British rider competed who lives out there and her photo was published by the ride website. The photo shows her riding a horse with what appears to be a chain around its nose accompanied by a severe bit. The photo has been widely shared...

There are quite a few western face book groups that have for sale adverts in them.... "UK Western riding" is one of them, and western tack for sale in the UK is another you could try those too. PS do you have any photos of it?

Right in the middle of France. If you are interested in this area, you can look at houses in the departments 23, 36, 18, 03. The big towns are Bourges, Gueret, Montluçon and Chateauroux. There are flat and hilly areas in the depts, but the Creuse (dept 23) is very nice for hacking with...

I live in the centre of France. Houses cheap. Very rural, endless off road riding without a gate in sight. Lots of show jumping and dressage here in this area at lower to mid-level. I do a bit of endurance and it's great to train here, local gallops charge 5€ for hire. Property quite...

Have to laugh when people resort to "lots of dead horses in racing, so that makes it OK in endurance" argument. Major difference being that in endurance 'to finish is to win', in endurance the aim of the game is to preserve the horse. Oh, and we aren't talking about racing, we are talking...

Thanks silv :)

But strangely not on their FB page, where it could be seen by more people.

I am sure many of you will have been reading in Horse and Hound about the horrible issues going on in the UAE in the sport of endurance. There has been a petition created today following the latest scandal of 5 riders at a junior ride beating their horses on the 30th of January, there have...

I need some quite major work doing to my lorry box. I found this company on the internet, does anyone have any knowledge on them? They are Highwood Horseboxes Highwood farm Shay Lane Walton Wakefield The man's name is Ian Saynor You hear so many horror stories and i don't want to...

I agree, it is definitely not ok for the fei to shrug and say not our problem. It's everyone's problem. Horse welfare is supposed to be paramount in endurance, the fei should be moving heaven and earth to ensure that is so, both at international and national level with their member nations. On a...

The 30 minute rule doesn't come into play in abuse/welfare issues If the international horses/riders competing at the race have permission from their own national federation to do so, then the race was legal.

But the deaths are hidden So the fei won't be able to monitor it easily. They don't have the man power, and fei technical delegates are human beings and most human beings have a price.... Horses die every week out there. This is the first time someone has managed to get evidence of it...

National federations are free to set their own rules and regs for their races. Some countries follow closely the fei rules for they national comps (France for example) and some don't (America for example) The UAE national races are run under their rules and regs. Although the race in question...

The AERC (American endurance society) released a public statement on their facebook page yesterday stating that they do not condone recent events .... I wish other federations like EGB would do the same.

It's not been an embarrassment to the sheikhs as thus far its all been unsubstantiated rumours. This time, they cant deny the photographic evidence.....