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18/12/2025

🥱If I yawn, just know it’s been a horse day 🥱

17/12/2025

Always have a bin ready for your plan 😎

16/12/2025

REEL ONE — Will we do it? 👀

I’ve set myself a slightly crazy liberty jumping challenge.

Can I train Gatsby to jump five jumps, in the correct order, completely at liberty by New Year’s Day?

We started just over a week ago with one jump.
Now we’re building towards a full course of five, guided only by my voice and a point of my finger.

❌ No whip
❌ No ropes or halter
❌ No coercion
❌ No barriers or lanes
❌ No consequences for saying no

Just a horse who is free to choose whether to join in… or go and eat from his bucket instead.

My job?
To teach carefully, build understanding, and make the experience motivating enough that Gatsby wants to participate.

Will we do it? 🤩
Let’s give it a go and see where we get.

This is part one of my holiday training series 🎄✨

15/12/2025

Bravo to Shawna Karrasch Equine and others around the world who are inspiring a new generation of horse owners and trainers.

We are proud to be a company with our roots firmly and stubbornly in the highest horse welfare, and our feet are where horses would like their hooves ……. firmly in the reward based training world.

Let’s celebrate 30 years of a growing movement of people who are learning the power of understanding how horses feel and learn.

Thank you Shawna 💕 and others for your inspiration.

15/12/2025

This is true, but we also need to look closely at the role of regulatory bodies like the FEI and national federations. These organisations don’t just write rulebooks; they shape how horses are treated from the very top of the sport all the way down to affiliated riding clubs and even unaffiliated venues.

The uncomfortable truth is that rules define what present and future riders see as normal horse welfare. If meaningful change is ever going to filter through every layer of the equestrian world, it has to start at the top ….. because rules matter.

Which brings us to the recent FEI blood rule change. Let’s be clear: this is not a positive step for horse welfare. The rule has shifted from elimination for any visible blood to allowing so-called “accidental blood”. But how on earth is accidental blood defined, and by whom, in the heat of competition?

Even more concerning, this change applies only to showjumping. Dressage and eventing still operate under a zero-tolerance policy, exposing an uncomfortable inconsistency across disciplines.

To many, this doesn’t look like welfare-led reform at all, but rather the FEI bowing to pressure …… that might jeopardise the FEI’s Olympic mandate and, by extension, equestrian sport at the Games.

Yes, some recent updates, such as allowing verbal cues and removing the mandatory requirement for a noseband by British Dressage are welcome. But isn’t it odd that making bit-free bridles explicitly optional was not included? 🤔

When rules are shaped by political leverage rather than the horse’s lived experience, the message that filters down is clear: welfare is negotiable.

If real change is to happen, it must come from the top, and it must be driven by the horse, not by fear of losing Olympic status or the rath of top professional riders?

Is it time for independent animal welfare experts to be the decision makers of equestrian sport rules and make them truly horse welfare orientated?

What do you think?

15/12/2025

🎅Horses are the best 🧑‍🎄

13/12/2025

Great story - and of course the beedy eyed will spot that the horse is bit free. So! Question? If you can ride endurance Bitless then why are we all still waiting for British Dressage to change their rules. What pray could be the reasons they refuse to listen and refuse to change?

✨ 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗖𝗨𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗢𝗡 – 𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗫𝗬 ✨
If you read one story today, let it be this one. 💚

When South West member 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁 first met Foxboro Tortuga—known to his friends as Foxy—he was a terrified, underweight rescue who could barely cope with gentle grooming. He’d been removed from an overcrowded stud, received months of veterinary care from the RSPCA, and arrived with trauma that made even the simplest things feel overwhelming.

Victoria didn’t choose him because he looked like an endurance horse.
She chose him because he needed someone. And that’s where their story begins. 🌿

𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, and Foxy has just completed an incredible novice season, finishing with a Grade 1 at the iconic Red Dragon Festival of Endurance. A horse who once couldn’t bear to be alone… calmly corralled on a Welsh mountain. A horse who might never have been backed… loving every mile.

It’s a journey built on patience, welfare-first training, and the quiet, steady magic of partnership—everything that makes endurance such a special sport. 🐴✨
Because here at Endurance GB, we know every horse and rider has a place with us, whether they’re a purpose-bred athlete or a rescue just beginning again.

If you’ve ever wondered whether a rescue horse can find a home in endurance… Foxy is your answer.
If you need a story to remind you why we do what we do… Foxy is your reminder.
And if you just love a happy ending… well, this one’s still being written.

👉 Read Foxy’s full story on our website – https://www.endurancegb.co.uk/Cms/Spaces/NEWS/News/From+Rescue+to+Red+Dragon+The+Remarkable+Novice+Season+of+Foxboro+Tortuga
We promise, it’s worth every word. 💚🐎

12/12/2025

🤷‍♀️ My husbands says …. is that real time or horse time ⁉️🤪

10/12/2025

✨ Symptoms include:

✨ Sudden bank account distress
✨ Owning 12 rugs per horse

This is not a phase.
This is a hormonal equine awakening.