One of the companies who took part in Aspire’s Christmas Gift Guide last year was Equimins. I couldn’t not share their latest news as the “before and after” challenges are the ones I like following the most. Check out for yourself 🙂 Take the Equimins Advance Challenge! If your horse is starting to lose condition…
In December 2014 VTI joined Aspire Equestrian’s Christmas Gift Guide offering £100 OFF their consultation for Full Body Scan for pre-Christmas bookings. One of my clients jumped at the chance, made her booking and this video shows how the imaging works in practice. To read more about the VTI process and how it can help as…
I seem to be writing a post after post about interesting products lately but can’t help it – they are interesting! 🙂 During my time in Portugal, I got to meet an amazing, beautiful Lusitano stallion called Rehedição. Trained to Grand Prix, he was a fabulous schoolmaster and a great asset to the centre. He…
Part of my work involves teaching riding to non-horse owners and that means I rely on my working partners (horses!) to be in good condition, healthy and with positive amount of energy. Over the years I grew to appreciate the wisdom and life experience of older horses and they are often the best teachers any…
The fact that dental problems can lead to contact issues and mouth discomfort is a pretty common knowledge among horse owners but having witnessed a great improvement in bit acceptance in a pony with tartar build up I thought I would make a quick note about it 🙂 The pony had mild head shaking issues…
Late August in England is a bit like an opening act of drizzles inevitably followed by countless rainy days – you better learn to like them or you enter a season of awaiting for drier months to return. My boots are already saturated and it’s barely started to truly rain 😉 If you know of…
Your horse’s joints go under a lot of strain, particularly during training and competing for performance horses, and it’s an unfortunate inevitability that with age the joints will deteriorate to some degree. Whether this happens due to strenuous competing earlier in life, or simply due to age later down the line, it’s important to know…
Selfmade horsefly trap: in the bucket there is water and dish washing liquid. Catches hundreds a day. #EquineHour pic.twitter.com/ePbHfv8fMn — nannasalmi.com (@horsehairjewel) July 26, 2014
When we ask our horses to push their bodies to their maximum capabilities, in order to excel in competition or give us a thrilling ride, it is only fair that we give them all of the tools they need to keep them comfortable, healthy and happy as they do. In any conditioning programme, the bones and ligaments take the longest…
Sadly horses can’t tell us if they are unhappy or in pain. And very often the pain has to be quite severe before we notice something is wrong, because it is the horse’s natural instinct to hide pain. In the wild pain equals weakness equals death. So very often small aches will go entirely unnoticed until it is…
