Royal Windsor Carriage Driving Competition

Paul Chambers Qualifying for British Carriage Driving Team

World Champ Aussie Boyd Excel in Team Challenge **

Friesians being driven 4 in hand at CDE – Stallion Show, Friesland **

HORSES AND THEIR TOYS!

A Friesian foal playing with his ball **

Another Friesian – Remus, a colt, playing with his ball

Horses having Snowball fights! **

BRILLIANT TV/MEDIA COMMERCIALS - FEATURING OUR HAIRY MATES

Budweiser Team Clydesdale Commercial

Original Budweiser Clydesdale Commercial

2003 Super Bowl Commercial Budweiser Clydesdales

ALTERNATIVE STYLES OF DRESSAGE

A bull doing dressage!

Hmm, some creature doing dressage!

Men doing dressage.

A lady and her dog doing dressage

Hollywood & Horses     Patrick Swayze talks of his love of horses and his special Arabians. **

Dressage     The magnificent grey mare Matinee ridden by Andreas Helgstrand at the World
                    Equestrian Games Freestyle Final. **

Diving Horses     Great communication between horse and rider. **

Friesian Magic     Friesian stallion Jasper 366 Dressage

Liberty     Bareback riding without reins performed by Stacy Westfall **

Playtime     Lorenzo, the Flying Frenchman – Liberty and Liberating **

Carriage Driving     Never to young to learn. **

Tribute to Sept 11     A global tribute **

Equine Theatre     Cavalia – Pure Poetry in Motion **

Side Saddle Riding     No bridle, side saddle, beautiful music. ‘Dreams in the Palm of Our Hands’.**

Accidents happen     Tribute to Christopher Reeves – he loved to show jump. **

Twinkle Toes     Meet Earthquake Ike, World Champion Cutting horse "teaching" how it is done
                       on Buffalo. Visit www.earthquakeIke.com to learn more about this great stallion. **

Amazing     The ultimate Never Give Up - It aint over till it’s over clip. Battle at Kruger **

Stickability     Could you sit this for 8 seconds? How about 2 seconds?
                      How about bareback over a 7ft fence?

I am Horse     

Ali & Michael J. Fox     Life is certainly interesting isn’t it? **

Patch Adams     An interesting approach to life **

How old do you feel     Fantastic couple in their 90’s, married 62 years, great spontaneous
                                    energy. **

How lucky are you?      Not lotto-winning lucky, but fair dinkum good fortune lucky.

INSPIRING RIDERS & THEIR STORIES

Christopher Reeves – an equine Superman
Somewhere in heaven – the Chris and Dana Reeves story. **
Chris talks about organized religion and his approach to his accident.
Robin Williams talks about his great mate Christopher Reeves

Silke "playing" with her horses: excellent horsemanship and groundwork. Even more unbelievable: Silke is handicapped and sits in a wheelchair – oh and yes, they are Friesians she’s mainly working with.

BEHAVIOUR

Thinking like a horse
Horses are Prey not Predators
Horses learn differently to humans

BODY CONDITION

Scoring a horses body condition
Body Weight – how to estimate

BREEDS

Have some real fun here, put in the breed your searching for and yi ha, up comes museum quality results.

BREEDING

From foal management, physiology to abortion in horses

CARE AND HANDLING

Anatomy and Physiology
Equine Digestive Tract Structure and Function
The Visual World of the Horse, time to learn what they can really see, not what we like to think they see.

DRESSAGE – RULKUR or DEEP FLEXION?

If horses could speak

Passion for equus

Rolkur – love me or hate me

Rolkur explained

Anky van Grunsven talks about her method

Why not hyperflexion

Worried eyes

Scandic blue tongue uncut

Blue tongue world cup

Hyperflexion show jumping

FEEDING, WEEDS AND WATER

Great topics on different hay qualities, weeds and which ones are lethal and how to ensure quality water at all times for your horse.

HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND BIODIVERSITY

CONDITIONS: spend some time here learning about various conditions, including:
Gastric Ulcers in Adult Horses
Splints and Fractures of the Splint Bone in Horses
Sunburn, Photosensitivity or Contact Dermatitis in Horses
Common Joint Diseases of Horses

DISEASES: spend some time here learning about various diseases, including:
Equine Influenza
Strangles in Horses
Tetanus in Horses

DISEASE CONTROL AND BIOSECURITY: spend time learning about various ways to keep the stables and pastures safe from disease spreading or contracting such nasties, including:
Biosecurity for Horse Properties (aka not letting the nasties onto your property!)
Preventing Disease Spread - Personal Hygiene and Disinfectants around Horse Barns
Guidelines for the Vaccination of Horses

MEDICATIONS: spend time learning about various medications and uses off, including:
Euthanasia of Horses
Horse Medications - Their Use and Contraindications, fandamtastic – topics include how people only remember 20% of what we’re told, print on the medication bottles getting smaller so some with sight impairments can’t read it very well anyway, and where to store medications.
Phenylbutazone (Bute) Use in Horses

PARASITES: spend time learning about various nasties and how to treat them, including:
Deworking programs – are we doing more harm than good?
Lice on Horses

POISONOUS PLANTS: incredible how beautiful some plants can look, some simply weeds, yet how fatal they can be to horses. Valuable lessons to learn here, some plants are found in most countries, others more specific, topics include:
Poisoning of Horses by Plants
Common Weeds Poisonous to Grazing Livestock

HELPFUL HINTS FOR HORSE ENTHUSIASTS
Topics included feeding, pasture management, fencing, identification and security, and more.
Euthanasia of Horses
Horse Medications - Their Use and Contraindications, fandamtastic – topics include how people only remember 20% of what we’re told, print on the medication bottles getting smaller so some with sight impairments can’t read it very well anyway, and where to store medications.
Phenylbutazone (Bute) Use in Horses

HORSE FACILITIES
Fence Planning for Horses
Fire Safety in Horse Stables **
Manure Management
Riding Arena Footing Material Selection and Management
Stable Design
Stable Flooring Materials & Drainage
Stable Ventilation

TRANSPORTATION AND HANDLING
How to minimize stress of the horse (not the humans!) whilst traveling, traveling safety kit, factors affecting how a horse travels and lots more here. **

VETERINARY SCIENCE
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science (JEVS) - Considered by many in the equine industry to be the leading source of all things horse. Often you find content in various books or articles where the source as been the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science (JEVS). An international publication designed for the practicing equine veterinarian, equine researcher, and other equine health care specialist. Published monthly, each issue of JEVS includes original scientific research, review articles, case reports, short communications, and clinical techniques from leaders in the equine veterinary field.

Have you experienced a ride on a Racking Horse?

What about a Paso Fino?

How about a Zebra?

Remember to have your horse teeth done regularly, and teach them whoa means whoa! **

Yes you can still be kicked whilst in a carriage

We need a capable driver please!

Ooops, not an ideal carriage trip on the wedding day

Horses don’t like being branded

Wild Horses     

Wild Horses Kick Butt     A National Geographic special video **

Beautiful Horses     

Horses     

Noddy, the worlds largest horse at 20.2hh     

Previous Tallest Horse – Meet Radar, 19 3 hh (6ft 7.5”)     

Highest horse jump – 2.47mtrs     

Smallest Horse – Meet Thumbelina,