Very frequently, drivers tend to ignore driving slow in places where there are a lot of animals, hence, a group of hundreds of riders decided to take steps towards this issue. They are set to take to roads across the country this weekend aiming to educate drivers on passing horses safely. It has been confirmed…
A 10-year-old little girl who scored 93.8% in a British Dressage (BD) rider skills test is aiming for team selection in the future. Ten-year-old Abigail Gray from Aberdeenshire received the score in the BD youth D squad rider skills test on her 14-year-old Welsh section C gelding Rascal on 19 January. Abigail’s mother Karen said…
The last weekend was followed by bad news of a rider falling at a one-day riding club event and as a consequence, ending up her life. An anonymous female rider was taking part in the Solihull Riding Club one-day event on Saturday (13 July) afternoon when she fell from her horse. West Midlands Ambulance Service…
Two identical twin horses each won a BE100 section at Rackham Horse Trials – with a fifth of a penalty between their scores. Sacha Hourigan rode Caroline Richardson’s Twice As Nice IV (Ernie, pictured above) and Double Act IV (Eric, below) to victory on 16 June, finishing on her dressage scores of 28.8 and 29…
A volunteering teenager of Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) named James Wiseman explains how this experience has saved him. At the 50th anniversary of the organization, Wiseman presented a report on the benefits of volunteering. In investigations funded by Sport England, the RDA looked into who its 18,000 “vital” volunteers are, and how they…
Finding a way how to communicate with animals is a true success. Sometimes we wish we could understand what they say, but have we ever thought about the opposite? What if the horses try to communicate with us? Studies by Ph.D. researchers have concluded that horses are capable of such a thing. The…
US teenager Ashley Stout and her horse, Avant-Garde, were training at Standing Ovation Equestrian Center (SOEC) in Halfmoon Township, Pennsylvania when a terrible accident got the lives of the 13-year old girl and her horse on 11th of July. It is believed they had a rotational fall. A statement from the center said: “Tonight we…
The British Horse Society (BHS) is investing £250,000 in a new scholarship scheme to encourage the best instructors across the UK. It is also hoped to boost the number of qualified BHS assistant instructors (AI) by helping with the costs of training, BHS Stage Three and Preliminary Teaching Test examinations and the first year on…
Horses have proven to have a healing power that humans are incapable of imaging. The crucial role that horses played in the rise of Temple Grandin from an autistic youngster to a professor of animal science at Colorado State University is the perfect example of what has just been said. A paper published in the…
According to a scientific publication, a horse cannot comfortably carry more than 10 percent of its own weight, which means more than 80% of people cannot ride horses. However, public opinion tends to disagree with this and so do we. According to The US Cavalry Manual of Horse Management (1941), a horse should not carry…