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Clipping, why start now
Clipping training is very important for horses who find the act stressful and scary. If your horse kicks out during clipping, now is the time to begin training them. Take the pressure off and focus on small sessions during the week and follow along a case study of a difficult to clip horse.

Anna Kodíček
Jun 16 min read


Clipping preparation
Clipping is key to good horse welfare during the colder times of the year, but many horses struggle with it.

Anna Kodíček
Jun 1, 20234 min read


Book review: The Racehorse who Wouldn’t Gallop by Clare Balding
How does fiction impact our understanding of horse behaviour, and how acurate is behavioural training in childrens books?

Anna Kodíček
Feb 1, 20237 min read


Are performative trainers fooling us into thinking problem behaviours can be trained away?
How a one-hour demo can distort your perception of behavioural problems and their solutions A large source of income for trainers is...

Anna Kodíček
Jan 1, 20236 min read


Mark Todd and punishment in horse training
A recent viral TikTok has sparked outrage by showing Olympic gold medallist Sir Mark Todd repeatedly hitting a horse with a branch to...

Anna Kodíček
Mar 5, 20225 min read


What is stress and how do we recognise it in horses
Stress is something we all feel, whether it is about an upcoming meeting or a deadline, and our horses experience it too. The word stress...

Anna Kodíček
Feb 3, 20226 min read


Consent in horse training and management
On Monday the 6th of December 2021 I did a presentation as part of my BSc (Hons) Equine Behavioural Science degree at Writtle University...

Anna Kodíček
Dec 9, 20215 min read
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