Equine Insight

07/12/2025

Ditch the Flash Noseband🐴✨

Flash straps have become so normal that many riders never stop to ask why they’re using one. In every appointment, I remove the flash strap—and riders usually feel their horse go better straight away, without changing anything else.

When a horse opens their mouth, puts their tongue over the bit, or avoids the contact, it isn’t misbehaviour—it’s a reaction. A response to discomfort, unwanted pressure, or a bit that doesn’t suit their mouth conformation.

Strapping the mouth shut removes the horse’s ability to tell us something is wrong. A tight flash restricts natural jaw movement, creates tension from the poll right through to the hindquarters, and can even impact deeper breathing needed for athletic performance. It affects circulation, increases anxiety, and shuts down natural expression—especially when the horse is already trying to cope with discomfort.

It has now become increasingly difficult to even find a bridle that doesn’t include a strap designed to hold the mouth closed.

So what can you do?
Ditch the flash strap or any mouth-restricting noseband and focus on improving your connection with your horse. True progress is rooted in the relationship between horse and rider and supported by correct, comfortable tack that allows freedom—not restriction.

True harmony, cadence, and elevation don’t come from mechanical fixes or clamping the mouth shut. They come from a horse who can breathe freely, move naturally, and express themselves without fear of being silenced.

I only stock and fit cavesson bridles—simple, kind, and designed to let horses move, breathe, and feel comfortable in their work.

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07/12/2025

Insulin dysregulation, often underdiagnosed in sport horses, may increase the risk of developing laminitis after intra-articular injections of corticosteroids.

06/12/2025

Always report incidents when riding out, links on the post. 👍

03/12/2025

Can you guess how long since these two horses have been wormed?

Here's some information about them:
🌾They live together and occasionally have additional companions who go through quarantine before grazing together
🌾They are on a worm control program where they are tested twice a year with FEC tests and annually with the small redworm blood test, as well as testing twice a year for tapeworm
🌾Their paddock is poo picked at least once a day
🌾They don’t co-graze with other animals
🌾They graze 1 horse per acre

The answer is.....

7 years! Thee horses have been tested over this time has shown that these horses have not required worming for small redworm and tapeworm - perfect examples of sustainable worm control.

How long since you last used a wormer?🪱

29/11/2025

Shared!

A useful photo

22/11/2025

📲 Every report helps protect the next rider.

Recording your road incidents in the Horse i app, as well as the police, gives us the data to campaign for change at local and national level. Whether it’s a close pass or a near miss, your experience matters.

The more evidence we gather, the stronger our case for better infrastructure, legislation and support for riders and carriage drivers on the road 🤝

Download the app today and be part of the change 👉 https://bit.ly/3LpBwRd

21/11/2025

Shared! Thanks for posting Marion

19/11/2025

This is a human eye but the same thing can be seen in horses.

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Every system of the body has rhythm — heartbeat, breath, digestion, circadian cycles.

The iris too reflects rhythm: contraction and dilation, response and rest.

These patterns are subtle, yet they speak of balance or strain within the autonomic nervous system.

Iridology invites us to observe these rhythms with respect — not as static markers, but as the pulse of life itself.