Who will be the next victim of equine crime? This month as a result of more requests than I have ever had before, I am going to write some advice to horse owners and riders about ensuring you do not become the next victim of the current and growing equine crime wave hitting parts of the country. A bit of background on me, Brian Seddon As a retired police officer of thirty … [Read more...]

This month I am taking a look at a subject not often discussed but one a lot of people are clearly very involved with, namely livery yards from the perspective of both the livery yard owner or manager and their livery yard guest, and looking at how to avoid getting into petty disputes or full blown conflict, which is a lot more common than most people realise. Serious problems … [Read more...]

This month I am going to talk about riding standards and if there is a link between fundamentally poor and incorrect riding and horse welfare. A starting point. In setting off with this topic the reader should be aware that I am basing my thoughts on what is now my fifth decade as a working equine professional. I have always made a lot of notes, particularly about the so called … [Read more...]

With retraining of racehorses a very popular topic currently I am going to extend this to my experiences with retraining horses that are not racehorses. For this, I lean on  my experiences in converting, or attempting to convert, a wide range of horses into Police Horses, over many years. I am going to look at horses from four disciplines. This all came about for me when … [Read more...]

Thinking of getting an ex racehorse… read on.  A brief history of racehorse re training in the Uk The first time I became aware of racehorse retraining in the Uk was via the great pioneering supporter of ex racehorses horses,my friend and the legend that is Carrie Humble. Carrie set up what I believe to be the worlds first racehorse rehabilitation establishment which was … [Read more...]