Last month, animal rights demonstrators gathered outside Gothenburg International Horse Show to protest. But they weren't protesting against rollkur or some ...

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 meatball dish. The t...

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 feature, there is a quo...

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 they concern themselve...

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 otherwise? I have. I'll g...

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 that the term ”dressa...

I am glad I brought my wellingtons as I walk up the hill towards the meadow where Tulla, Luca, Jack and Buddy live. It's a bright November morning after a ra...

One of the best things about writing the blog posts on Epona.tv is the feedback I get. Both the positive and the negative. The post on join up two days ago r...

I spent today in the Gredos mountains in Spain, following a small band of feral Pottoka ponies together with a couple of ethology students and field study di...

”Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” So goes a famous quote by the feminist writer and editor, Marie Shear. What it means is that women ar...

The idea of breeding performance horses is to create a shining star to wow the world. If such a star is one in a million, then that begs the question: What a...

The dressage judging is under attack. So what else is new? Judges are awarding points based on how they expect a combination to perform, instead of awarding ...

Whenever horse welfare is called into question, those who do the asking are met with the counter claim: ”Have you ever ridden a Grand Prix horse?” ”How many ...