Posts by Lucy Robinson

Whenever somebody new calls me wanting to book riding lessons I always ask what their weight is. While most people are happy giving me their height a lot of them seem perplexed by being asked their...

Finding a boarding yard (or moving yards) can be one of the most stressful aspects of horse ownership, akin to your kid first starting daycare. Yet it doesn’t need to be this stressful, with a...

You might already know that horses can’t vomit but do you know why this is the case? Until recently neither did I, I used to think it was because they don’t have a gallbladder but it turns out...

Any horse owner will tell you that the cold, wet winter months can be a real headache but what you might not realize is that the summer heat provides its own set of problems that can be just as...

We all know that horses are expensive to keep, even if you’re not spending a fortune purchasing one. The trouble with this though is that saying they’re expensive doesn’t help you to plan your...

Everybody is scared of something (whether they’ll admit it or not) and when you consider that approximately 8% of people in the world are scared of some sort of animal it’s easy to see that being...