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How to Check If Your Saddle Fits, Saddle Fitting Questions and Answers
By Andrea Hicks – Owner of the Native Pony & Cob Saddle Company Saddle fitting can be a difficult process and you should contact a specialist saddle fitter if you have doubts or problems with a saddle. Nevertheless, there are some basics things that all horse riders should know regarding saddle fitting as it can [...]
Ensuring our Mountain & Moorland Breeds are Bred for Useful Jobs – by Tracey Milward
Tracey Milward is a professional Mountain & Moorland producer and sits on various Judging Panels, as an In Hand/Ridden Judge, Ride Judge and Breed Judge. Tracey’s comments first appeared in a feature about Mountain & Moorland ponies in the 14 March issue of Horse & Hound magazine. We interviewed Tracey to further discuss and have included further [...]
Horse Owners views needed for DEFRA Horse Passport Review Survey!
Horse owners are asked for views on ‘broken’ passport system as part of Defra review Today the Equine Sector Council for Health and Welfare launches the horse owners’ passport survey – the first step in a two stage consultation that will build a strong case on the need for a transformation of the horse passport [...]
Tribute to Exmoor Pony Stallion: Collabear Campion Barle
May 1989 – June 2012 By his breeder Mrs Sue Byrne Exceptional from the day he was born ‘Teddy’ arrived the night of 6 May 1989 during a violent storm. Later that day the vet arrived to give mare and foal the once over. An astonished Brian Crawford reported that the foal had a [...]
RESULTS! The 2013 Equestrian Social Media Awards
Here are the final placings in the 2013 Equestrian Social Media Awards. Equine Tourism and the Exmoor Pony Club were delighted to be finalists in the Most Informative Use of Social Media and Best Newcomer categories. Congratulations to all the finalists and winners! YouTube channel 1st Burghley Horse Trials 2nd EquiiAlly’s channel 3rd EventionTV 4th [...]
HORSE PROFILE: Morena’s Story – from Cortijo Los Lobos, Spain
By June Wolfe Morena’s story We Heard of Morena whilst looking for a horse for a friend of our daughter Elizabeth, who wanted to keep a horse of her own at our place. She had been found starving in a field, covered from head to toe in sweet itch and suffering from Laminitis. [...]
Great Yorkshire Show – 9-11 July 2013
Show Piece Event on the Starting Blocks Tickets for the 2013 Great Yorkshire Show will go on sale on Friday, 1 March with organisers, the Yorkshire Agricultural Society already planning to make the event as “weatherproof” as possible. Some £500,000 has been set aside for measures aimed at ensuring that England’s premier agricultural show does [...]
Identifying Dude Ranches Offering Serious Horseback Riding & Horsemanship
Article by Bayard Fox (Founder of Equitours and owner of Bitterroot Ranch – Wyoming) Bayard Fox has been riding for 70 years on six continents and has ridden enough miles to circle the globe several times. He is owner and founder of Equitours Worldwide Horseback Riding Vacations. He and his wife also own the Bitterroot [...]
Kaimanawa Wild Horses of New Zealand
The History and Origin of Kaimanawa Wild Horses – originally descended from Exmoor ponies – is a fascinating story of New Zealand’s wild horses, many of whom are proving to be good quality ridden ponies when domesticated Between 1858 and 1875 Major George Carlyon imported Exmoor ponies from England which he then crossed with local [...]
BREED PROFILE: Dartmoor Heritage Ponies
‘Dartmoor Ponies – Our Moorland Heritage’ THE DARTMOOR PONY DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM HISTORY OF THE DARTMOOR PONY The first documentation relating to the Dartmoor pony appears in 1012, in the will of Bishop Aelfwold of Crediton. Between the 12th and 15th century the ponies were used extensively to carry tin off the [...]
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