Next month, the FEI is expected to approve a rule change allowing horses to continue competing after visible bleeding — reversing a welfare safeguard into an administrative warning. The proposal places the sport’s “welfare is paramount” rhetoric at odds with its fragile social licence.
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Bit Blindness The term “bit blindness”, coined in 2020, emphasises that after its inception four...
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A critique of “The Role of the Equestrian Professional in Bridle and Bit Fit in the United...
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A critique of the Horses and the Science of Harmony film by Emeritus Professor Robert Cook, FRCVS,...
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Scenario Consider a prominent international organisation that has global leadership and regulatory...
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Many features of the Thoroughbred Horseracing sector have been seriously challenged from an animal...
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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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Racing Victoria (RV) has released its new Thoroughbred Racehorse Welfare Policy (TRWP). The policy...
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Dr Robert Cook, a veterinarian, researcher and Professor Emeritus who focused his entire career on...
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Danish report recommends doing away with the view of the horse as an athlete. Saying we should...
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Leaders from a wide range of equestrian and racing disciplines came together to discuss challenges...
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The problems surrounding the recruitment, training and retention of stable staff in horseracing...
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