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WHY YOUR HORSE FEELS AMAZING ONE DAY

And awful the next The same horse can feel like two different ‘beasts’ from one ride to the next, and from what we’ve been reading, the reason usually has less to do with the morning of the ride than with the eighteen hours before we got on. The previous 18 hours Every one of us knows the…

ByMauray WolffSeptember 24, 20260Comments

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THE TOYOTA SA DERBY RETURNS TO KPC FOR ITS 61ST EDITION

South Africa's toughest showjumping title is decided between the 1st and 4th October, with free entry for the first three days The Toyota SA Derby returns to Kyalami Equestrian Park from 1 to 4 October for its 61st edition. First held in 1965 at Inanda Club, it has a reputation as the most demanding test…

BylizzieSeptember 23, 20260Comments

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WHEN IN DOUBT, CALL

What new wound research means for our horses Most of us will have, at some stage, dealt with a wound, whether our horse has come in from the paddock with a gash or we spot a kick mark that wasn’t there yesterday. It is the everyday emergency, and a new study suggests that how we handle…

ByMauray WolffSeptember 23, 20260Comments

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THE NIGHT SHIFT

What really happens between last feed and first A look at the overnight hours, the part of the feeding day we plan the least, and what new work on the equine body clock suggests we could be doing better. Most yards have a feeding routine that ends at evening stables and resumes at dawn. Concentrates fed, hay…

ByMauray WolffSeptember 22, 20260Comments

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WHEN A HERITAGE BREED BECOMES INCONVENIENT

What Dartmoor teaches us about valuing our own. If you have never stood on Dartmoor, picture a high, windblown moor in the southwest of England, and scattered across it, in small family groups, semi-wild ponies that have grazed that ground for thousands of years. They are tough, low-set and unbothered by weather that sends everything else…

ByMauray WolffSeptember 21, 20260Comments

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WHAT BEVA’S NEW GUIDE SAYS ABOUT GETTING A HORSE THROUGH BOX REST

The owner guide looks beyond the stable door to a confined horse's company, feeding and mind, and to the person doing the caring Box rest is often treated as a matter of keeping a horse still. The British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) has published a Coping with Confinement toolkit for vets and nurses, and its…

BylizzieSeptember 21, 20260Comments

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LANDSKROON STUD – THE HOME OF THE AKHAL-TEKE

Few horses carry the mystique of the Akhal-Teke. Bred for more than three thousand years by the nomadic Teke people of what is now Turkmenistan, these desert horses are known for a fine coat that can catch the light like metal, and for the deep, almost singular bond they form with one person. They are…

ByMauray WolffSeptember 18, 20260Comments

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FROM A NORMAN FARM TO AACHEN GOLD

How a Selle Français mare from a small farm in Seine-Maritime carried Steve Guerdat to the one individual title that had always eluded him, and why her pedigree reaches back through more than half a century of French breeding to the horse that won his first Olympic gold. When Steve Guerdat and Dynamix de Belheme cleared…

ByMauray WolffAugust 28, 20260Comments

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HOW THE SA SHOWJUMPING CHAMPIONSHIPS ACTUALLY WORK

The Toyota SA Senior Showjumping Championships are held at Kyalami Park Club this week. Here we explain how the competition works. The Toyota SA Senior Showjumping Championships run at KPC from 5 to 9 August, and the biggest thing to understand is that the championship is not a single class, but rather a three-part system. Two…

BylizzieAugust 4, 20260Comments

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CONFIRMED ENTRY LIST

Four South Africans and Zimbabwe's Charley Barford confirmed for Aachen showjumping. South Africa will send four showjumping combinations to the FEI World Championships in Aachen this month, after the final list of definite entries confirmed the country's place among 179 horse and rider combinations from 55 nations. The confirmed South African combinations are Charlie Bays…

BylizzieAugust 4, 20260Comments

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