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That (first) time with me and Danish NF President Ulf Helgstrand on the radio
Photo: Archive photo of a jumping horse 2022 has been a memorable year for me for multiple reasons. Apart from my book being published,...

Julie Taylor
Dec 28, 202214 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Jun 27, 20229 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Feb 20, 202210 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Dec 7, 20218 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Feb 26, 20218 min read
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The owners' circle
Last month, animal rights demonstrators gathered outside Gothenburg International Horse Show to protest. But they weren't protesting...

Julie Taylor
Mar 19, 20186 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Jul 27, 201711 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Jun 16, 20176 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
May 27, 20173 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
May 25, 20176 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
May 22, 20176 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
May 19, 20177 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Mar 30, 20173 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Mar 27, 20175 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
May 10, 20163 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Feb 5, 20166 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Jan 21, 201610 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Oct 2, 20154 min read
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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...

Julie Taylor
Aug 31, 20157 min read
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UPDATED: Falsterbo moments
In July, the traditional Falsterbo International Horseshow took place as usual. These photos are of Tørveslettens Stamina who has...

Julie Taylor
Aug 26, 20157 min read
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