In this provocative poetic essay, James Garnham — the pen name of Professor Emeritus David Mellor — indicts a sport that has inflicted bit-induced pain on horses for millennia, traces the science that finally made those signs visible, and challenges governing bodies and elite competitors who continue to obstruct meaningful reform.
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Wild and free-living horses offer vital reference points for hoof health, showing how terrain, movement, and social life shape both the foot and the horse’s welfare.
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Scenario Consider a prominent international organisation that has global leadership and regulatory...
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Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse....
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Written here as a poem, each verse is structured as a three-line haiku. The haiku is a Japanese...
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Takhin tal Research Camp, Gobi B Strictly Protected Area, July, 2023. Lit only by a faint...
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Forty years after Kiwi’s remarkable dash to victory in the 1983 Melbourne Cup, a lifesize statue...
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When a horse is nearing the end of their time we are often forced or rather gifted, the opportunity to reflect on their journey and the road we’ve walked together. Some stories are too painful to share with words and I am thankful for the opportunity to create a wonderful visual legacy to remember them by.
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When you talk to yourself (in your own mind), do you tell yourself that you are heading for...
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As we see above, in de Vos and Wildens’ dramatic ‘Horse attacked by dogs’, dog and horse contact...
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How much of your life and riding is influenced by your thoughts? The answer is much more than you...
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The gifting of horses is an ancient practice in many cultures that continues today. Historically,...
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