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  • 2026-02-06 18:00:01

    Ramsbury Distillery will become the Official Spirit Sponsor for this year’s MARS Badminton Horse Trials. The Wiltshire-based business creates multi award winning single estate spirits from grain to ...
    Ramsbury Distillery to become Official Spirit S...
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  • 2026-02-05 12:00:02

    Horse people are often told a practice is “evidence-based” — but how can you tell whether research truly puts horses’ welfare first? This article explains why behaviour and equipment studies ...
    How to Judge Equine Welfare Research: What Hors...
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  • 2026-02-05 12:00:02

    Wild and free-living horses offer vital reference points for hoof health, showing how terrain, movement, and social life shape both the foot and the horse’s welfare. The post Equine Ethology: The H ...
    Equine Ethology: The Horse In Context
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  • 2026-01-14 18:00:02

    The 77th year of the MARS Badminton Horse Trials is marked by a boost in prize money.  First prize will be £125,000. As befits the world’s most prestigious five-star horse trials, this is the ...
    MARS Badminton Horse Trials winner to take home...
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  • 2025-12-18 06:00:02

    When uncomfortable images of horses are dismissed as “just moments in time,” photographer Crispin Parelius Johannessen asks what happens when every moment is documented—and why selective trophy ...
    So You Think it’s a Moment in Time?
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  • 2025-12-18 06:00:02

    Why do welfare problems persist in horse sport despite growing knowledge and regulation? Drawing on a webinar by Lisa Ashton, this article argues that welfare fails when culture fails — and explore ...
    When welfare becomes culture: patching the leak...
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  • 2025-12-17 18:00:01

    The last month has been a busy period! Rosie and Alex have been dealing with the tradestand applications, and I am pleased to report that the great majority of our regular exhibitors have already conf ...
    Director’s Blog – December 2025
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  • 2025-11-12 18:00:02

    As I write it is pouring with rain, but the work in the Park has been enabled by the good weather that we enjoyed up to last weekend.   The cross-country course, show jumping arena and practice area ...
    Director’s Blog – November 2025
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  • 2025-10-21 07:00:01

    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 pl ...
    The FEI’s Blood Rule: Are We Really Willing to ...
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  • 2025-10-14 19:00:02

    In September 2025 Lucy spent a weekend at Veláni Country Hotel in Crete, hosted by Sabine and Manolis. With a direct flight from East Midlands, I arrived in Heraklion late Friday evening. Met by Sab ...
    A Weekend in Crete – Veláni Country Hotel
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