Blog posts of '2017' 'May'

Dream foals and breeding nightmares

If you have a nice mare, it’s tempting to imagine what her offspring would be like even if imagination is as far as it can go

Dream foals and breeding nightmares

Here’s to our riding royals

When non-horsey people see pictures of the Queen out riding, or Prince Philip driving his team of ponies, they have one of three reactions, writes CAROLYN HENDERSON.

How do they manage it? After all, Her Majesty is 91 and HRH is 96 in June.
Surely it’s too dangerous at their age – shouldn’t ...

Here’s to our riding royals

Facing up to a horse in pain.

There are two things that riders should think twice about saying, writes CAROLYN HENDERSON.

One is “My horse is being naughty” and the other is “My horse always goes like that.” You may disagree, and you may phrase the first observation in stronger terms. But before you’re tempted to think that y...

Facing up to a horse in pain.