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Shut up and ride!
If riders had not got away riding with overly tight nosebands for all those years. In all, any of the bad officials out there have helped pushing the boundaries in a bad direction for the sport.
The Hoofbeat Chronicles
The Hoofbeat Chronicles is a personal blog about horses, horse business and equestrian sport. The good, the bad and the ugly. Hope you'll like it!
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God bless the world ranking for breeding stallions..
Or maybe not. According to my calculations Vitalis is the winner of the dressage ranking while Zavall VDL would be the uncrowned king of eventing. Read the post and you'll find out why.
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Things I wish I had known: The Threats
Things I wish I had known part 3. The Threats! This is an article series about things the author wish she had been aware of when starting out her professional career within equestrian media.
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I thought rapping was forbidden
It’s neither rocket science nor “secret information,” especially not for a competition official! Such as the president of the ground jury, the course designer, a steward, or like the technical delegat
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Things I wish I had known: Censorship
Things I wish I had known part 2. Censorship! This is an article series about things the author wish she had been aware of when starting out her professional career within equestrian media.
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Endurance Tops the FEI Table of Suspension List
On the current list of the FEI table of suspension list (dated Oct 24th 2024) there are no less than 30 ongoing cases. Of those 30 cases 18 belong to the glorious world of endurance. Eighteen! That is a staggering 60% of all the cases on that particular list. My
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Give your horse a break..
Call me old school but I like to hang out on various internet forums. Some of these forums are completely bonkers and over the top. Others are more horse friendly. At least if one believe horse friendly means a gathering of horse people talking about horses. Today I came across
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Things I wish I had known..
There are some things I wish I had known before entering the stage of equestrian journalism. Some almost 20 years back in time when I took up writing and created my first horsey news site I was completely clueless. Maybe not about the world of equestrianism itself, but about the
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When horses get old
I love you always forever. Near or far, closer together. Everywhere I will be with you, everything I will do for you..
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What ever happened to common sense?
An equine pain face comprising low and or asymmetrical ears, an angled appearance of the eyes, a withdrawn and or tense stare, medio laterally dilated nostrils and tension of the lips..
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Media outlets begging for mercy..
A better plan would have been to take responsibility for the fact that the media outlets are a big part of the problem in how people speak and adress each other online.
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Sport horses and breeding
It was not too long ago that it was announced the Thoroughbred race now would ge recognisable via the FEI. FEI being the international equestrian federation. It was not all clear to me what this would lead to. Would it mean the TB or OTTB1 horses would as a studbook