Horse & Hooves

15/09/2026

Sharing for the wild ones…

14/09/2026

12/09/2026

Very well said…

08/09/2026

This ⬇️

If your horse is broken, let them rest and recover.

It sounds obvious, but sometimes it really isn’t.

Healing takes time. Sometimes months, sometimes years. Just because we can make a horse more comfortable, support a structure, put on a boot, fit a shoe, use medication or provide some other form of support, it doesn’t mean the underlying problem has magically disappeared.

When people contact me and the first questions are:

“Can I still ride them while they’re going through rehab?”

“I need the horse back by next season.”

“Can you get them right enough for me to compete?”

Or:

“I’ll just get the farrier to put some shoes on so I can carry on competing.”

These are the cases I turn away.

Not because we don’t want to help, but because we are not miracle workers.

Sometimes the most important part of a rehabilitation programme is time.

Time for tissues to heal.
Time for the body to adapt.
Time for the horse to rebuild strength.
Time for the horse to learn to move comfortably again.

And sometimes, despite everything we can do, a horse has been damaged so severely that returning to the job they were previously doing simply isn’t feasible or fair on that horse.

There are only so many plasters and crutches you can put on a problem before you have to step back and ask the most important question:

“What does this horse actually need from us?”

Not what we want them to do.
Not what we need them to be ready for.
Not what fits around competition dates.

What does the horse need?

Rehabilitation isn’t about finding the quickest way to get a horse back into work.

It is about giving them the best possible chance of becoming comfortable, strong and functional again, and sometimes that means accepting that their future may look very different from their past.

If your horse is broken, let them be broken for a while.

Give them the time they need.

Because sometimes the kindest thing you can do for a horse isn’t finding another way to keep them working.

It’s giving them permission to stop.

17/08/2026

My name is Joselito & I’m the reason no one else in the herd is wearing a fly mask - except Fleur, but she’s a Welsh witch…

Mum says I’m a serial fly mask killer.
🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

06/08/2026

Balance ✔️

03/08/2026

30 seconds of self-selection from the mineral bar.

29/07/2026

Sadly many aren’t as lucky as Hector…