Julie Taylor
Won't somebody think about the horses?
In the debate about the use of horses for sport and other human entertainment, one argument pops up again and again: horses would be...
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Julie Taylor
- Feb 20
- 10 min
A switch in time
If we’ve learned anything from the past couple of weeks’ Sir Mark Todd debacle, it’s that different cultures exist under the umbrella...
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Julie Taylor
- Dec 7, 2021
- 8 min
Why the Olympics?
Since announcing my plan to write a book to equip the International Olympic Committee with the arguments it needs to discontinue all...
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Julie Taylor
- Feb 26, 2021
- 8 min
Blue tongue back from the dead
It's been more than 11 years since Luise and I published the infamous Blue Tongue World Cup video on YouTube. So it was with some...
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Julie Taylor
- Mar 19, 2018
- 6 min
The owners' circle
Last month, animal rights demonstrators gathered outside Gothenburg International Horse Show to protest. But they weren't protesting...
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Julie Taylor
- Jul 27, 2017
- 11 min
The Path of Most Resistance
The other night as the Farewell Falsterbo video was going viral, I was in my kitchen trying to make a vegan version of a classic, Danish...
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Julie Taylor
- Jun 16, 2017
- 6 min
A certain lack of feeling
There are many opinions about the practice of bringing chronically lame horses back to competition by cutting the sensory nerves to their...
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Julie Taylor
- May 27, 2017
- 3 min
De-nerving: is it doping?
“Doping is treatment with a substance or a technique which improves or detracts from a horse's natural performance ability. It can also...
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Julie Taylor
- May 25, 2017
- 6 min
Vetting the vets
In other sports, anti-doping is a matter of fairness to one's competitors. You dope, you cheat. In equestrian sport, there is a darker...
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Julie Taylor
- May 22, 2017
- 6 min
No pain, lots of gain
Yesterday, the 16-year-old KWPN gelding, Never Say Never jumped in the finals of the Danish Showjumping Championships. He even placed and...
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Julie Taylor
- May 19, 2017
- 7 min
Unnerving facts
Imagine a doping test where – instead of sending the sample to an independent laboratory – the rider's own vet as well as the team vet of...
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Julie Taylor
- Mar 30, 2017
- 3 min
Holding one's tongue
“If you want things to change, you have to stop being so aggressive.” “Be more polite if you want people to listen to you.” “I see what...
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Julie Taylor
- Mar 27, 2017
- 5 min
Ugly motives
For a few days I have been pondering the meaning of the word “motivation” and the way it is used by horse people. In our latest video...
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Julie Taylor
- May 10, 2016
- 3 min
Flights of fancy
Why do we call horses flight animals? Even I say it and I have witnessed how decidedly unflighty free living horses are and how little...
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Julie Taylor
- Feb 5, 2016
- 6 min
The bare necessities
Have you ever done something you didn't want to do because your riding instructor told you to do it, while your conscience told you...
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Julie Taylor
- Jan 21, 2016
- 10 min
DAP for beginners: where to land
The debate about DAP – or Diagonal Advanced Placement – is happening again on the internet. A video by long time horse breeder Barbara...
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Julie Taylor
- Oct 2, 2015
- 4 min
Danish federation backs up FEI stewards in Falsterbo scandal
The Danish Equestrian Federation has finished its investigation of the controversial photos of Tørveslettens Stamina and Andreas...
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Julie Taylor
- Aug 31, 2015
- 7 min
Witch hunt
"Why do you always publish this type of pictures of Andreas Helgstrand?" That's a question we get sometimes and only one answer is...
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Julie Taylor
- Aug 26, 2015
- 7 min
UPDATED: Falsterbo moments
In July, the traditional Falsterbo International Horseshow took place as usual. These photos are of Tørveslettens Stamina who has...
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Julie Taylor
- Aug 16, 2015
- 7 min
Supply and demand
What passes for a good dressage horse today is far removed from what used to pass for a good dressage horse. In fact, I'm not even sure...
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