Is it possible that traditional stables and paddocks are no longer the best option for our horses?
Imagine you bought a ride-on lawn mower to cut the grass on your property. Provided you serviced it every now and again, there’d be no reason to think that it wouldn’t keep running for ages with no issues, would there? If it did keep breaking down, you could keep fixing the broken parts or you […]
What is a horse track system?
The what, when, why, where, who and how The what A horse track system is a style of horse keeping and property management that’s gaining in popularity around the world. The design of the system is based on the natural movement patterns of horses and almost every other browsing/grazing animal of the African savannah, compared […]
How to understand what a horse is trying to tell you – a guide for inexperienced horse handlers
Please note: This isn’t an exhaustive explanation of the topic. It’s a 7 minute speech that I gave at the Toastmasters Club I joined last year to get less rubbish at public speaking, so what’s in here is what would fit in the time I had available. Anyone who has been around horses will tell […]
How keeping horses on a track could help in the fight against climate change
Please be aware that I’m not a scientist, so what follows is a simplistic explanation of the principles as I understand them and as they apply to the climate of Western Australia. In the previous article, we looked at how keeping horses on horse track systems might be better for horses in the long term […]
Ideas for making your hay go further this year
This year in Western Australia most horse owners are asking themselves the same question. How they’re going to make the hay they’ve got or can get, last until next season’s harvest becomes available. For the first time in a long time, everybody’s having to make hay buying decisions based on what they can get, not […]
The more people I meet, the more I like my dog
What Mark Twain actually said in his famous quote was “the more I learn about people, the more I like my dog” but I didn’t think he’d mind if I changed a word or two as a segway to addressing a comment I often hear people make about their general disillusionment with some or all […]
How the role of horses is changing
This piece is written in my capacity as a leisure horse owner and amateur rider and reflects my personal opinion on the subject. When I refer to Horse Sport or Equestrian Sport, I’m talking about the Olympic disciplines and not the various forms of horse racing. I’m a horse owner and many of my clients […]