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27.9.2022: Excerpt from ‘Understanding Horse Performance: Brain, Pain or Training?’

By Sue Palmer on September 27, 2022

Chapter 1: How To Use This Book Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Here where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; There […]

23.9.2022: Hilary, Max, and Zen

By Sue Palmer on September 23, 2022

A Guest Blog by Hilary Moses July July began for Zen with another area competition. However, this time it wasn’t on a surface, which is what Zen is used to. Competing on grass is very different, as he discovered. It also meant a much bigger atmosphere, with room for lots more horses to be warming […]

Jan and Rebel (Rule 27)

By Sue Palmer on September 18, 2022

A Guest Blog By Jan Daley RDACD Grades 3&4 Carriage Driving and Horse Care: passed! Eileen Cornish, head of DRA Carriage Driving, assessed and was happy for me to begin working towards single driver, ie lose the dual control reins, and drive from the bit by myself. All exciting stuff!, and I enjoyed the experience […]

17.9.2022: Follow me…

By Sue Palmer on September 17, 2022

“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.” Tony Robbins Join me in an ongoing discussion on the links between performance, pain and behaviour in horses. Read about the scientific studies in this […]

12.9.2022: Hilary, Max, and Zen

By Sue Palmer on September 12, 2022

A Guest Blog by Hilary Moses June I’d been looking forward to starting to compete Zen with his Prelim music, so the first weekend in June saw us off to do just that. Dressage to music is my big love, and a lot of work (on and off Zen) has gone into making his Prelim […]

11.9.2022 The Ripple Effect

By Sue Palmer on September 11, 2022

“A ripple effect occurs when an initial disturbance to a system propagates outward to disturb an increasingly larger portion of the system, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it.” Wikipedia September 2022 “In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small […]

8.7.2022 Sam and Rabbit

By Sue Palmer on September 10, 2022

A Guest Blog by Sam Ireson Another month has gone by, and how quickly this year is going. I am very pleased to say I am now back on board and absolutely loving my time riding Rabbit. I am pleased to say I appear to have come back from my break actually riding better than […]

10.9.2022: 2m for Horse Riders

By Sue Palmer on September 10, 2022

Taken from the BBC email newsletter 5th September 2022: How well do you know the Highway Code? It has been updated and means vehicles must give 1.5m (4ft 11in) space when overtaking cyclists, and 2m for horses. Drivers and other road users must also give way to pedestrians crossing at road junctions. They’re some examples […]

7.9.2022: An Excerpt From The Book ‘Horse Massage For Horse Owners’ by Sue Palmer

By Sue Palmer on September 7, 2022

Safety First When you are massaging your horse, the safety of both you and your horse is of the utmost importance. Massage should be an enjoyable and relaxing way of spending time with your horse, so it is worth taking some simple precautions to make sure this is the case. Wearing sensible clothing and footwear […]

3.9.2022: Jan and Rebel

By Sue Palmer on September 3, 2022

A Guest Blog By Jan Daley August 2021, and we had a busy few weeks, albeit without much driving. The weather went from excessively hot to rainy and humid, which was even more debilitating for me, breathing-wise. However, review appointments with the Transplant Man and my local Lung Man led us all to agree that […]

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