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We just finished a fantastic clinic in Tipperary with Tanja Penders. We had tropical weather, sunshine, a lot of cake, and very happy horses. Here are my notes from Ozzie & Matilda. Thank you to
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Remember the famous Adele song ‘hello’? Well now we have an equestrian parody of it, and it’s hilarious! Here are some of the new ‘horse inspired’ lyrics: Hello,
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A friend of mine had reported very good results after she got her horses hair analysed, and then changed her horses feeding. So I decided to give it a go and track my progress here. First up I put a
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Finding myself without a saddle that fitted my horse, on the recommendation of German trainer & superstar Isabell Brenner, I decided to get a Grandeur bareback pad to ride in. Here is their
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You may be familiar with my sorry story of buying saddles that don’t fit from saddle fitters that wouldn’t know one end of a saddle from another. You can read about my bad saddle fit
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My poor horse has got a sarcoid on the inside of his off hind pastern. He’s 13 years old and this is the first one he’s got. I’m planning to keep a diary with pics of how I’m
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After a number of cowboy Irish saddle fitters sold me a saddle that didn’t fit my horse and made him sore, or checked an existing saddle I had and confirmed it was fine (and it also made my
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Do you know: Horses can’t swallow unless they can open their mouth a bit. So if a horse has it’s mouth clamped shut with a flash or whatever it’s a bloody uncomfortable experience
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Tomorrow I am going abroad with work, which (to my conscious mind) I was looking forward to. It took me by surprise then when I woke up this morning with a sense of sadness. My first thought was that
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Karen is a friend of mine in the UK and is a beautiful horsewomen & rider. I’ve sat watching clinics & taken 100’s of photos and I literally cannot find one bad picture of her.