Industry issues

Aug 14 min read

How the Charlotte Dujardin incident can be viewed as abuse and business as usual by equestrians

How has the equine industry responded to the controversial video of Dujardin? Do people agree or is the response more diverse and why.

Mar 1, 20238 min read

Anti-traveller and anti-Roma prejudice and bias in the equestrian industry

Anti-gypsy, Irish traveller, and Roma biases are very common in the equestrian industry, recent research investigates the truth

Jan 1, 20236 min read

Are performative trainers fooling us into thinking problem behaviours can be trained away?

How a one-hour demo can distort your perception of behavioural problems and their solutions A large source of income for trainers is...

May 17, 20222 min read

Editing photos, are we hiding our horses expressions?

Professional photo editing is a common requirement for quality photos, but might we be editing our horses to mask their behaviour and remove