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I wanted to share my experience of attending the 5-star Burghley Horse Trials in September 2022. I  was so thrilled to be finally travelling✈ internationally once again after two years of Covid lockdowns.  With a group tour planned to Burghley Horse Trials and minimum numbers already booked for September 2020.  It was a huge blow [...]

Many of us don’t aspire to or have the opportunity to compete at the high level but it is so amazing to watch some of the World’s top riders in action with such charisma and precision. There are many competitions around the world that the World’s best riders and horses compete.  The top events are [...]

Every September, Icelandic farmers, riders on Icelandic horse's and entire communities take part in the annual tradition of the sheep roundup called the réttir. This may mean scaling mountains and valleys to collect their sheep and before Iceland’s long dark winters sets in. The sheep roundup is one of the most important events in Iceland’s countryside [...]

The National Horse stud of the Czech Republic, Kladruby nad Labem, is one of the oldest operating stud farms in Europe and the Kladruber horse is one of the oldest breeds of horses that have not been modernised in keeping with its origins for over 400 years.  Today it is one of the top breeds [...]

So the wild west included cowboys and Indians!  Can you remember watching an old cowboy and Indian movie where the cowboys were chased by a group of Indians riding full pelt?  Always bareback racing across the great plains? Sometimes you would see the early settlers horse wagon attacked by a band of native Indians.   The cowboys and Indians of the early west had a profound respect for the horse. The native Indians used the horse in hunting for [...]