Equisoinsonline

12/06/2026

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12/06/2026

Yay 🙌 the mountains have returned!
🦄 successful training ride with Baz showing no fear in the face of robot lawnmower jeapordy 😱. 🦄 Valkyrie modelling her new tapis from PharmaHorse supplementen

08/06/2026

Fabulous podcast featuring my teacher, Susan Tenney on Five Element acupressure and the dreaded Laminitis, she is a true joy to listen to and learn from 🤩

Podcast Episode · The Equestrian Connection · 7 June · 1hr 10min

07/06/2026

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Discover how emotional experiences affect horses' physiological responses and the importance of understanding their biochemical behaviors in training.

29/05/2026

Oh this lovely lady is singing from the same hymn sheet as me......your horse or pony NEEDS a good vitamin and mineral balancer (CMV in France) because it won't be getting enough from hay, haylage or grass ....the truth, Amen 😂

29/05/2026

Morning dip and trundle around our beautiful countryside 😎

29/05/2026

Give them time to settle 🤗

Why are so many horses being “mis-sold”?

I’m not entirely convinced they are.

You go and try a horse, in its home environment, with people it knows, in a routine it understands. You like what you feel. Maybe you go back and try it again… same place, same setup. It all feels good, and you think this is the one.

Vetting passed and you bring your new horse home...and then everything changes.

New yard. New field. New stable. New people. New routine. New smells, sounds, expectations.

You give them a day. Maybe two. Sometimes not even that.
Then you get on. New tack, different bit, new arena, people watching.

But suddenly, you’re not sitting on the same horse you tried.
They feel different. Tense. Sharp. Spooky. Not quite what you remember.

So now you’re on edge. Watching for everything. Questioning every step, every reaction, every feeling.

And this is where it starts to unravel.

Because what we often forget, or maybe underestimate, is just how big that upheaval is for them.

We’ve taken them out of everything they know, everything that felt safe and predictable, and dropped them into something completely unfamiliar… then expected them to perform exactly the same, almost immediately.

When they don’t, it’s easy to assume something’s wrong.
That the seller wasn’t honest. That the horse isn’t as advertised.

And so the horse gets labelled ''not as described''. The lucky ones are sent back, the unlucky ones are sold on, some going on to boomerang from one place to the next.

But what if the problem isn’t that the horse was mis-sold…
What if it’s that we expect instant consistency from an animal going through complete change?

Horses don’t just arrive and slot neatly into our expectations. They need time to settle, to understand, to feel safe again. They need space to adjust before they can show you who they actually are.
If we don’t give them that, we’re not seeing the horse we bought, we’re seeing a horse trying to cope, and that’s a very different thing.

Maybe the question isn’t “why are so many horses being mis-sold?”
Maybe it’s… are we giving them a fair chance to be the horse we thought we were buying?

26/05/2026

Well stocked up after last Friday's delivery 🚚 even managed to get a limited supply of Boswellia Serrata and the wonderful Biteback summer survival products, but be warned once these are sold there won't be any more for a long while. 😬

21/05/2026

Heavenly outing this morning with my girl, mountains still snowy on 21st May, incredible, but won't last long with these temperatures