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2.10.2022 Recognising Pain in Ridden Horses – The Film

By Sue Palmer on October 2, 2022

FREE 35 minute documentary on recognising pain in ridden horses. Watch the full film for free here. A compelling documentary has been released today based on groundbreaking work on signs of pain in the ridden horse. The 24 Behaviors of the Ridden Horse in Pain – Shifting the Paradigm of How We See Lameness has […]

1.10.2022 Thank you

By Sue Palmer on October 1, 2022

“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.” Elon Musk I feel so lucky to […]

29.9.2022: Finding The Right Help

By Sue Palmer on September 29, 2022

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Ralph Waldo Emerson It can be a minefield trying to find the right help for you and your horse, and I’ve written […]

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 […]

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