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I don’t know the difference between canter leads and at this point I’m too afraid to ask 🥴🤪

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22.04.2024

Haaaaaaaaairy baby 👌

Started rugging Moo when it started to get cold after I got her, realised I was being a wuss and she’s come from 6 hours south where the temp barely gets above 15 degrees, and left her unrugged til now! She’s lost no weight and still maintaining condition, she’s nice and hairy, and still happy!

The only reason she’s been rugged tonight is because it’s way closer to 0 degrees than 10 🥶

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Part of getting older is realising that your mum is indeed turning 57 tomorrow 😳🥴

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Fictional Horse Tournament

Group Shane - Round 1

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You can only do 12 options in a poll so if you tie choose which one you prefer???

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"The FEI has apparently rowed back on its own proposal to sanction national equestrian federations with a “prevalence” of doping. If the measure had gone forward it would most likely have penalised the sport’s wealthiest benefactors; Middle Eastern endurance racing still returns more positives than any other region or any other FEI discipline.

New sanctions were suggested last year following a significant spike in positives in Saudi Arabia.  But despite enquiries by HorseSport.com over the past seven weeks, the FEI has declined to confirm if new sanctions are in the draft EADCMP (anti-doping) rules for 2025, slated for debate at the FEI Sport Forum on April 29-30.

The FEI already stands accused of succumbing to “sportswashing” through allocating this week’s World Cup jumping and dressage finals to Saudi Arabia. Three leading equestrian news organisations, The Horse Magazine, Reiten St Georg and WorldofShowjumping.com  announced a boycott, largely citing Saudi Arabia’s attitude to human rights.

The FEI is, however, is challenged in finding hosts for their major events which is a topic of discussion at their Sports Forum next week. As of now, the FEI has not yet received an application to host next year’s European Jumping, Eventing, or Senior Para Championships. The announcement about Saudi Arabia hosting these Finals was announced at the end of 2019 (four and half years ahead of the event) and it’s not clear whether any bidding took place. Typically, the FEI offers the chance to bid on hosting the World Cup Finals three years in advance.

Simultaneously, HorseSport.com has pressed the FEI on the contradiction of allocating “big-ticket” championships to countries with known equine doping and cheating problems at a time when the FEI is focussed on public concern about sport horse welfare and the Social Licence to Operate (SLO).

Since 2019, FEI endurance racing has been heavily promoted at Al Ula in Saudi Arabia. It has staged the world’s richest annual race ever since the Al Wathba venue in UAE pulled the Presidents Cup from the FEI calendar in reaction to the stricter FEI endurance rules effective from 2020.

There have always been multiple doping positives from Al Ula, involving cocktails of up to seven different drugs, highlighting the ease with which routinely doped horses progress to top level endurance sport. In 2020, the FEI disciplined three senior officials for “failing in their duty” after a large number of field-of-play violations at Al Ula were not not acted upon.

Last November Al Ula was allocated the 2026 FEI World Endurance Championships, despite having recently returned the greatest number of positives (14 Saudi owned and trained horses out of the 33 sampled) at any single show or event in equestrian anti-doping history. One rider-trainer received a record seven-and-a-half-year ban. Sampling returns from the big 2024 Al Ula fixture are notably better, but could not have been predicted last November.

Not surprisingly, the FEI seems reluctant to answer the question actually asked regarding Saudi Arabia by any media organisation."

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Fictional Horse Tournament

Group Evelyn - Round 1

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Fictional Horse Tournament

Group Evelyn - Round 1

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Fictional Horse Tournament

Group Linus - Round 1

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20.04.2024

Another awesome ride today, practicing our dressage tests for the Combined Training day next month! Silly miss was a bit ouchy on her feet after a decent wee buck at the start so we got relegated to test caller and her mobile couch 😂

Had a hack round the grounds to cool down and ended up doing our first little cross country jumps! Had to stop too early though as I didn’t have my vest on and she was getting very into the swing of it and would’ve quite liked to keep going 🙈😅 Straight through the water jump, over the scary red log pile, over another log and a corner, didn’t look at anything!! 🤩

Can’t wait to get my comfy Bates back from mum and have a decent ride, my legs are waaay too long for a GP 😂😂

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Fictional Horse Tournament

Group Linus - Round 1

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19.04.2024

Taken right before she latched onto the post and started huffing 🙃 but! Both girls got a pedicure today 💅

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Fictional Horse Tournament

Group Haley - Round 1

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18.04.2024

Good thing we’re not going anywhere this weekend aye 😬🥴🫣

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17.04.2024

4.5/100km for the year down! 😬😅🙌

Starting a bit late but no time like the present! Since we can’t make it up north for the Great Northern Gallop we’re doing our own (slow!) version down here 🎉

Pixie was dead keen to go until she realised halfway down the first lane we didn’t have another pony with us, then lots of motivation was needed to make it to even the first turnoff 😅 But we managed to get some running in going up and back so I’ll count it as a win!

I don’t know who was huffing and puffing more by the end of it, me or Pixie 😅😂

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home from the blood bank and i wonder…….