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28.9.2021 Poems from Pam

By Sue Palmer on September 28, 2021

_Learning how to say goodbye is the hardest thing I know_ For soon you will not be here and I’ll have to let you go. The years we’ve spent together are so special in my heart, Which now is close to breaking as too soon ...

27.9.2021 Excerpt from ‘Understanding Horse Performance: Brain, Pain or Training?’

By Sue Palmer on September 27, 2021

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 […]

26.9.2021 Competition Ready

By Sue Palmer on September 26, 2021

A lot of what I do is help prepare horses for competitions. By that, I mean help them to develop and maintain strength and suppleness on an ongoing basis, in combination with the rider and the trainer. And then help with the fine tuning close to competition time. I love...

24.9.2021 Coffee?

By Sue Palmer on September 24, 2021

Sometimes it feels as though we are stuck on the treadmill. We just have to keep going, that doesn’t seem to be anywhere to get off. As always, the storm will pass. But often we need to find a way to help us through....

23.9.2021 Hilary and Max

By Sue Palmer on September 23, 2021

June was another busy month. We completed the treasure hunt competitions (see Mays blog) and finished with a fantastic second place in one class and a respectable fifth in the other. This month saw the introduction of trotting on the lunge and including some poles to work over. ...

23.9.2021 Hilary and Max: June, July, August

By Sue Palmer on September 23, 2021

June June was another busy month. We completed the treasure hunt competitions (see Mays blog) and finished with a fantastic second place in one class and a respectable fifth in the other. This month saw the introduction of trotting on the lunge and including some poles to work over. Max had no problem with this. […]

21.9.2021 Getting Away

By Sue Palmer on September 21, 2021

It’s a standing joke in my family that I’m going on the trip of a lifetime. That might be my trip to work at summer camp in America ...

20.9.2021 How to De Spook Your Horse: Chapter 8

By Sue Palmer on September 20, 2021

It’s completely normal for a horse to be wary of what he treads on. The saying ‘no foot, no horse’ is very true, and if his legs or feet are injured because he’s trodden on something hazardous, this could spell death for a horse in the wild. It takes a great deal of trust...

19.9.2021 How do you lose weight?

By Sue Palmer on September 19, 2021

I think by now we all know that excess weight is damaging to our bodies. By extension, it is damaging to the bodies of our horses, dogs, cats, et cetera. It would seem logical ...

18.9.2021 Jan and Rebel: Part 6

By Sue Palmer on September 18, 2021

_Rebel was now 4. I had noticed_ that Rebel’s hooves were crumbly; easily scored and gouged by the hoof pick, and his frogs “didn’t look right” to me. I now know they were atrophied. He was reluctant...

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