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30.9.2021 How to De Spook Your Horse: Chapter 10

By Sue Palmer on September 30, 2021

If you’re on the ground, your horse should be able to stand relaxed either with you at his head, or with you at the end of a 12ft line out in front of him, to the side of him, or behind him, for at least 10 minutes. If you’re in the saddle, then your horse should be able...

29.9.2021 Finding The Right Help

By Sue Palmer on September 29, 2021

It can be a minefield trying to find the right help for you and your horse, and I’ve written this post in the hope of helping in some small way. Please share this information with anyone you feel would find it helpful...

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...

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