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What Kind of Horse Person Are You And What Does That Mean for Your Horse?
Ask a farrier what's wrong with your horse and the answer starts in the feet. Ask a nutritionist and it starts in the feed bucket. It's funny because it's true and it's true because it's biology. This article explores how your experience and expertise shape what you detect in your horse, what you miss, and why a whole-horse welfare assessment process changes everything.The post What Kind of Horse Person Are You And What Does That Mean for Your Horse? appeared first on Horses and People.

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Advance your passion: MSc Equine Science at the University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh's MSc Equine Science is a flexible, online postgraduate programme designed for graduates and professionals ready to turn their passion for horses into evidence-based expertise from elite sport to welfare and policy.The post Advance your passion: MSc Equine Science at the University of Edinburgh appeared first on Horses and People.

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The inaugural Ants Big Five Safari (at Ants River Lodge)
In January 2026 we were thrilled to be given the opportunity to put together a select group of riders to join the very first Ants Big Five Safari riding out from Ants River Lodge. A holiday at Ants Hill, Ants Nest or Bushwillow offers the opportunity to ride with a remarkable diversity of plains game []The post The inaugural Ants Big Five Safari (at Ants River Lodge) appeared first on In The Saddle - Personally Inspected Riding Holidays Worldwide.

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The Price of the Podium: How Commercial Incentives Shape Horse Welfare in Elite Sport
When commercial success drives equestrian sport, welfare science reveals how breeding decisions, training systems, and competition incentives shape the horse's lived experience across nutrition, environment, health, behaviour, and mental state. The post The Price of the Podium: How Commercial Incentives Shape Horse Welfare in Elite Sport appeared first on Horses and People.

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Bits Bite: The Plight of Sport Horses
In this provocative poetic essay, James Garnham the pen name of Professor Emeritus David Mellor indicts a sport that has inflicted bit-induced pain on horses for millennia, traces the science that finally made those signs visible, and challenges governing bodies and elite competitors who continue to obstruct meaningful reform.The post Bits Bite: The Plight of Sport Horses appeared first on Horses and People.

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Whats it like to be a bat? Scientists develop new solution to the puzzle of animal minds
We assess animal welfare by measuring stress hormones, counting behaviours, and checking for disease. But what's missing is a way to evaluate these data from the animals' lived experience. A new framework the teleonome offers a biological north star for welfare science, grounded in each species' own evolutionary logic.The post Whats it like to be a bat? Scientists develop new solution to the puzzle of animal minds appeared first on Horses and People.

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From Telos to Teleonome: A New Way to Understand Horse Welfare
You've seen it. The horse pacing the fence line, wearing a track in the ground. The one who calls out, again and again, when stabled alone. We call these problems. But most of us have a quieter sense that something else is going on. That quieter sense is correct and now there's a word for what it's pointing at.The post From Telos to Teleonome: A New Way to Understand Horse Welfare appeared first on Horses and People.

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How to Judge Equine Welfare Research: What Horse People Need to Know
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 carry hidden risks, introduces the COMPASS Guidelines, and shows how non-researchers can ask better, welfare-focused questions before trusting claims or volunteering their horses.The post How to Judge Equine Welfare Research: What Horse People Need to Know appeared first on Horses and People.

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Equine Ethology: The Horse In Context
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 horses welfare.The post Equine Ethology: The Horse In Context appeared first on Horses and People.

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So You Think its a Moment in Time?
When uncomfortable images of horses are dismissed as just moments in time, photographer Crispin Parelius Johannessen asks what happens when every moment is documentedand why selective trophy shots may be the real illusionThe post So You Think its a Moment in Time? appeared first on Horses and People.

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