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5.9.2021 How To De Spook Your Horse: Chapter 5

By Sue Palmer on September 5, 2021

…most of us have known a horse who wouldn’t take a wormer, or one who wouldn’t walk past a field of pigs…

17.9.2021 Follow me…

By Sue Palmer on June 17, 2021

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To a Trickle Haynet

By Sue Palmer on April 30, 2021

Oh evil instrument of equine teasing, morsels of food through micro holes squeezing. Filling my belly is much impeded. Takes lots of effort and much time needed. Your green nylon string so thick and strong. For a horse this is torture and just plain wrong. Tempting strands visible but so hard to attain. So very […]

Introducing the new IHRT, Mel Nagele

By Sue Palmer on April 27, 2021

Mel says: “… The benefits of the Intelligent Horsemanship training methods continued with a horse I purchased as a ‘weanling’, Spaghetti. IHRT Sandra Williams helped me with ‘groundwork’, ‘horse agility’ and with ‘backing’. After 20 years of not eventing, Spaghetti has completely inspired me to get back to eventing and in 2020 we completed a […]

25.4.2021 Guest Blog from Dr Sue Dyson

By Sue Palmer on April 25, 2021

An ethogram is a series of behaviours each with strict definitions, for example ears back behind a vertical position for five seconds or more. The Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram (RHpE) was developed to facilitate the recognition of discomfort in ridden horses, which was likely to reflect either primary musculoskeletal pain or discomfort caused by the […]

Guest Blog: Amy MacKinnon

By Sue Palmer on April 24, 2021

Guest guest blog from @amymackinnonequestrian Quiet, peaceful mornings I absolutely adore my quiet, peaceful mornings caring for my horses. The earlier the better! The horses low whinnies and the robin’s song are a welcome greeting. Turning out in the half light , the sounds accompanying me are birdsong and I notice the feline population of […]

One Sixth Saddles

By Sue Palmer on April 21, 2021

Today’s guest blog is by Val Evans from One Sixth Saddles Toys… everyone played with them as kids, everyone had a favourite toy. When I saw my favourite Marx toy horse – some 40 years after I last played with him – it brought back so many memories! I was blown away by the amazingly realistic […]

The Effect of a Physiotherapy Intervention on Thoracolumbar Posture in Horses

By Sue Palmer on April 15, 2021

This is the title of a peer reviewed study published in the journal Animals in October 2020. The authors are Amy Shakeshaft and Gillian Tabor. The link to the full article is below, it is open access which means it’s free for anyone to read. Amy and Gillian looked at whether baited stretches changed the […]

Hilary and Max: February

By Sue Palmer on April 13, 2021

A Guest Blog from Hilary Moses This month allowed Max and I to get back into the school and to hopefully start some real work. The hacking time was building up and we were doing longer distances with all the trotting. My vet had told me to avoid hills and muddy paths and that’s quite […]

The Importance of Good Saddle Fit, by Dr Sue Dyson

By Sue Palmer on March 26, 2021

A study of 63 horses, in normal work and presumed by their owners to be working comfortably, was performed and we showed that the average changes in back dimensions were greater in horses working correctly compared with those not working correctly. The changes were also influenced by rider skill. Rider ability was categorised as: good - the rider was consistently in rhythm and balance, was sympathetic and showed correct use of the aids; moderate – the rider had knowledge of the basic principles of riding ‘on the bit’, but lacked core strength and stability, or did not consistently apply the aids correctly; and poor – the rider had poor knowledge or ability to ride a horse ‘on the bit’ and / or was very unbalanced. The changes in back dimensions were greatest for the good riders and smallest for the poorly skilled riders.

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