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27.5.2022 Excerpt from ‘Understanding Horse Performance: Brain, Pain or Training?’

By Sue Palmer on May 27, 2022

From Chapter 12: Does your horse score 10/10 for comfort? 7. Walk and trot in straight line What to do: Ask a handler to walk your horse in a straight line away from you on level ground for about 30 paces or so, and then back towards you. Repeat in trot, both on a loose […]

26.5.2022 Who Inspires You?

By Sue Palmer on May 26, 2022

A Guest Blog by Jan Daley I’m not sure if “inspire” is the right word. Incite frustration, irritation, shock, incredulity, love, humour, drama; there was never room for insipid! I grew up listening to fireside tales of post-war smuggling of rationed foodstuffs, of travel, and music, and travel, and animals. Of building a gypsy caravan, […]

25.5.2022: The Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram – Research and Development

By Sue Palmer on May 25, 2022

Pain Has Many Manifestations There are lots of ways that a horse can try to tell you he’s in pain, and lameness is just one of them. Also, pain affects many different areas, and there are many things that can affect pain. As a population, we are not great at recognising pain or lameness in […]

24.5.2022 The Limits In Your Mind

By Sue Palmer on May 24, 2022

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke In some areas of my life, I’ve spent a lot of time being told that I’m not good enough. So much so that I’ve come to believe that I really am not good enough. […]

23.5.2022 Hilary, Max and Zen

By Sue Palmer on May 23, 2022

A Guest Blog by Hilary Moses March began with a busy week for Zen. I’m very excited about doing dressage to music with him, so we hired a local long arena and went to film the floor plan which I’ve written. He was very good, having never been to the venue, and it was good […]

22.5.22 Trees Can Help Lower Blood Pressure

By Sue Palmer on May 22, 2022

Sharing The Science Who knew that science would be needed to prove that taking time out in nature is good for you? I read a sentence recently about how, although it’s important for what we do to be evidence-based (to be led by the science), it’s also important to apply common sense. For example, real […]

21.5.2022 An Excerpt From The Book ‘Horse Massage For Horse Owners’ by Sue Palmer

By Sue Palmer on May 21, 2022

Anatomy This chapter discusses seven key muscles in the horse. I aim to give an overview of the whole body through picking muscles that cover a large proportion of the horse. Please don’t get hung up on remembering the names of the muscles – think of them as labels necessary for me to be able […]

20.5.2022: The Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram – Research and Development

By Sue Palmer on May 20, 2022

Can You Recognise Lameness From Your Horse’s Face? Using a previously developed list of facial expressions in the ridden horse (facial expression ethogram), a researcher studied 519 photographs of lame and non-lame horses. The photos included some horses before and after nerve blocks (i.e. lame, and then sound / non-lame). Pain scores were higher for […]

19.5.2022 Being Creative With Emotions

By Sue Palmer on May 19, 2022

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” Helen Keller I listened to some advice on how to manage anger. It was fascinating, a meditation teacher starting his talk by admitting that he has anger management issues. Who would have thought […]

18.5.2022: Jan and Rebel

By Sue Palmer on May 18, 2022

A Guest Blog By Jan Daley January 2020 saw Rebel and his goat companion Snowy (The Boys) going to live with Pony Borstal Lady (PBL) for a couple of months for re-schooling since I wasn’t physically or emotionally fit enough to do the groundwork. My confidence was at an all-time low, and only the thought […]

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