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Education Centre - (still under construction - more to come!)
Welcome to the new Education section of the website where you will find information, articles and links.  If it isn't here, check the A-Z index as there is information on those pages too.  Please email me if you would like any particular topic included.
Some of the links below will move you away from this website (please come back afterwards!), so please read my disclaimer!
The Horse: The Rider:
Breeding from your mare - by Serena & David Pincus BHSI
BUYING A HORSE? – KNOW YOUR RIGHTS by Alison Goodwin of Gordon Lutton Solicitors, Hereford
Buying a Horse or Pony - Trading Standards Advice
Electrolytes
Equissage - What is it?
Equine Grass Sickness - Beware!
Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA) - a warning for mare owners
Feeding your horse
Laminitis
Physiotherapy for Horses by Herefordshire's Rhiannon Griffiths and Tim Bradford
Stomach Ulcers
Sweet Itch
 
 
An introduction to the Alexander Technique - by Philippa Morrell
Craniosacral Therapy - by Vivien Ray RCST
Improve Your Classical Seat - (see 'Riding' below)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stable, yard & field: Riding:
Arena construction
Grassland Management notes
Ragwort
 
Dressage - Read Wikipedia's description/information!

Improve Your Classical Seat -

A video (click here) with some good tips to improve your classical seat, however, the exercises may not be safe to do on all horses, so please be extremely careful and, better still, ask a qualified instructor to give you lessons. You need a safe horse to work through some of the exercises shown!

 
Horse Care & Management: General/other:
'Video Jug' includes some good 'How to' videos, such as:
How to plait a horse's mane
How to plait a horse's tail:
How to pull a mane
How to apply a stable bandage
Clipping with Mary King (Horse & Hound video clip)
....and more, but please come back here afterwards!
 
Ask the Expert - archive
Costs of keeping a horse - coming soon
 
 
 
Useful Links:  
www.horseandhound.co.uk/horsecare/
www.beva.org.uk