Come Along for the Ride

In this episode I speak with Steph Kallstrom Steph was born in Peru and adopted by her mother and raised in Canada. As for most of us equestrians she fell in love with horses the first time she saw them and went into the world of Hunter/jumpers. Steph is a big part of the voice of Black Equestrians. And she has so much to teach us, if we can stop and listen. I have been waiting with great anticipation for this chat from the moment Steph said yes and booked in to have her interview. Steph is someone whose voice I listen to. Every time she posts on her socials or writes a new blog I read up and take note. I always learn something new. Steph is a minority in our equestrian world in many ways. She had a choice to stay in her lane and keep doing her thing and be happy enough. As you will hear in this interview, she is busy enough already, she didn’t need to take on another cause. But this is not just another cause for Steph, this is her life, she writes from experience and her perspective always teaches me something new. As a white woman I can only use my imagination for a lot of the racism that black equestrians encounter on a daily basis. And a lot of it is not a big event trauma, it’s the little things every day that are ever present and eat away at the most basic need we all have as humans, the need to belong. And it’s not just giving me perspective that I admire and learn from Steph. It’s how she writes and the feeling I get when I read her work. In Steph’s words I hear a strong and very intelligent Woman who is fierce and will not be bullied into submission by those trying to dull her words and make her sit down and wait her turn. She reminds me of the wild horses making trainers change their ways as they will not submit to the old traditional training methods. I love reading Steph’s work as I strive to be a voice in the way that she is. Her words are thoughtful, heartfelt and moving and always, every single time they are the truth. She calls out anyone who tries to shame or stifle her. That’s what I mean by fierce. I hope you enjoy our conversation and I hope you go and follow Steph on her socials and support the incredible change she is making in the horse world. You can connect with Steph on any of the following links IG: @stephkall https://instagram.com/stephkall?igshid=16xoc12pc3h6r  LinkTree- has all the links to my writing etc.  https://linktr.ee/stephkall

In this episode I speak with Jim Masterson, the creator of the Masterson Method. The Masterson Method is a form of body work that you can learn to do on your own horse and you can also go deeper into training and become a practitioner.I’ve always marvelled at the amount of body work modalities in both the human and horse world and love the fact that there are so many because it is a reflection of the individuality of both humans and horses. With all of our complexities and differences, we can look at what can support us and our horse at any moment in time.The Masterson Method is one of those that you may very well want in your tool-box, and not just for the sake of body work. What I learned in this conversation with Jim is how this is more than a body work for horses. It is also a way to connect with your horse. If you can do this method of body work, then you will be a conscious horse person. Because to do this work you have to let your mind go, let go of the outcome and see what your horse has to say, or how they respond, in each moment.Sounds amazing right?Well I thought so to.Thank you to those of you who believed Jim was going to be a great podcast guest and asked me to interview him as you were right. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.To connect with Jim and The Masterson Method click any of the links below.Website: https://mastersonmethod.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MastersonMethodInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mastersonmethod/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdCz74CUaLv8YnNhcRyACOwhttps://www.youtube.com/user/mastersonmethodTwitter: https://twitter.com/MastersonMethod

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.A huge shout out to our new Patreon subscribers. Jennifer Morris, thank you for joining the Patreon Community.In this episode I spoke with Robin Hood. Robin is the sister of Linda Tellington-Jones, the creator of the Tellington TTouch method of bodywork.Robin and I talked about the Tellington TTouch Method and how it came about in the first place. It is amazing to hear how someone was able to experience something for themselves and then go on to create their very own form of bodywork to help horses.Robin is an amazing woman and horse person in her very own right. We spoke about so many topics in the horse world including how we as women need to advocate for our horses and be in our power.We also talked about how to choose a trainer of any kind.About their words matching their actions. Robin suggested we look at what do they do when what they are doing doesn’t work.We even talked about why having water available for your horse during any training or body work session is really important for both you and your horse.This is a rich conversation that I enjoyed immensely.I have put a couple of links in the show notes but there are so many different pages and groups on facebook that I suggest if you want to follow the Tellington TTouch Method that you put Tellington TTouch into the search bar of Facebook and find the one that is in your country. As Robin says, there are a lot. So head on over there after you’ve listened to find out more about what is happing in your area.You can also gather more information on Tellington TTouch here https://ttouch.com/index.htmlhttps://ttouch.ca/© Copyrighted

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.One of our small business subscribers for the podcast is the HeartHorse Box. HeartHorse was created by friends Tista and Charlotte who found a beautiful spot to place themselves in the horse world. They have created a safe online community environment outside the noisy world of social media where you can subscribe and dive in and speak openly with heart-minded conscious horse people of all disciplines and breeds. This includes live seminars and classes from equine experts from all areas of the equestrian world. They also have the beautiful HeartHorse Box Subscription, I do love this one as it is centred around you, the conscious horse person receiving nourishing gifts for you as HeartHorse understand that you are already taking amazing care of your horse and want to make sure you are doing the same for yourself. I am thrilled to let you know that if you go to hearthorse.us and use the code EDENRIVER you will receive a 25% discount on your first month of the HeartHorse Community Membership. You may also like to check out their HeartHorse podcast it’s another great free resource from the HeartHorse team.In this episode I speak with Anja Beran.Anja is a classical dressage trainer who grew up believing classical dressage was the only way to ride so when she saw modern dressage, she was shocked to see how they rode.If you have ever wondered the difference between classical and modern dressage, then this is going to be a great learning moment for you as it was for me.Anja tells me that horses were originally trained for fighting and to fight your horse needed self-carriage. Riders needed one hand to hold a sword and fight, so their horse needs self-carriage with the rider using one hand for the reigns.Anja videoed the best modern dressage horses in the world and slowed the video down to show us all, that the movements they were making and how they are executed are not true to form.We talked about how in modern dressage comps the horse who is best ridden does not win. It’s the horse who is the best natural mover, who may not be ridden as well as the others, that wins. Everything is in reverse.I asked how in the world we can begin classical dressage competitions to overtake the modern dressage competitions. We talked about how much change that would realistically take.Anja also talked about that she believes that there is no such thing as an unwilling horse and how we as humans can do so much more for our horses just in the way that we train and think when we train.Anja has online courses now and if you have ever wanted to try classical dressage go to her website and have a look as there are a few to choose from. There are comprehensive ones and also ones that are broken down to just the canter. And if you think you have the wrong kind of horse for dressage then listen in as we discuss that as well.This was an inspiring talk and I do hope that I hope is one that can plant the seed and bring about real change in the dressage world for all horses.To connect with Anja you can follow the links below.ONLINE COURSES https://elopage.com/s/AnjaBeranWebsite https://www.anjaberan.de/enInstagram https://www.instagram.com/anjaberanfoundation/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5DrV-LBVMm9eAzBcmqTAIQFacebook https://www.facebook.com/Classical-Equitation-by-Anja-Beran-556970431001651/© Copyrighted

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.One of our small business subscribers for the podcast is the HeartHorse Box. HeartHorse was created by friends Tista and Charlotte who found a beautiful spot to place themselves in the horse world. They have created a safe online community environment outside the noisy world of social media where you can subscribe and dive in and speak openly with heart-minded conscious horse people of all disciplines and breeds. This includes live seminars and classes from equine experts from all areas of the equestrian world. They also have the beautiful HeartHorse Box Subscription, I do love this one as it is centred around you, the conscious horse person receiving nourishing gifts for you as HeartHorse understand that you are already taking amazing care of your horse and want to make sure you are doing the same for yourself. I am thrilled to let you know that if you go to hearthorse.us and use the code EDENRIVER you will receive a 25% discount on your first month of the HeartHorse Community Membership. You may also like to check out their HeartHorse podcast it’s another great free resource from the HeartHorse team.In this episode of the podcast I speak with Elsa Sinclair who made the film Taming Wild and who does what she calls Freedom Based Training.Elsa and I talk about the two documentaries she has made so far and also the one she is filming now that is taking way longer than expected, and for good reason.The amazing thing about Elsa is that she is always listening, not only to the horses and her intuition but to people when they ask really interesting questions. She takes on challenges consistently and her results are beautiful to witness. Sometimes she has a time frame to work within and sometimes she just has to keep filming until she finds a natural ending to the story.I love how Elsa thinks, how she trains and how she shows up for her horses and community.There is something in this chat for everyone so I hope you enjoy this conversation.WebsiteHttp://tamingwild.comThe specific page where people can find the movies is here:https://www.tamingwild.com/moviesalesFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/tamingwildmovie/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tamingwild/?hl=enYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/c/ElsaSinclairA fun active Patreon Grouphttps://www.patreon.com/tamingwild

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.One of our small business subscribers for the podcast is the HeartHorse Box. HeartHorse was created by friends Tista and Charlotte who found a beautiful spot to place themselves in the horse world. They have created a safe online community environment outside the noisy world of social media where you can subscribe and dive in and speak openly with heart-minded conscious horse people of all disciplines and breeds. This includes live seminars and classes from equine experts from all areas of the equestrian world. They also have the beautiful HeartHorse Box Subscription, I do love this one as it is centred around you, the conscious horse person receiving nourishing gifts for you as HeartHorse understand that you are already taking amazing care of your horse and want to make sure you are doing the same for yourself. I am thrilled to let you know that if you go to hearthorse.us and use the code EDENRIVER you will receive a 25% discount on your first month of the HeartHorse Community Membership. You may also like to check out their HeartHorse podcast it’s another great free resource from the HeartHorse team.We’ve made it to episode 100! Can you believe it! I decided to do something a little different this episode and play you and interview done with me by Tista and Charlotte from the Heart Horse Podcast. I really enjoyed my time chatting with these amazing women about the why behind this podcast and my business Eden River Equestrian. So for this one you can sit back and relax and get to know me a little better. I hope you enjoy it.© Copyrighted

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.One of our small business subscribers for the podcast is the HeartHorse Box. HeartHorse was created by friends Tista and Charlotte who found a beautiful spot to place themselves in the horse world. They have created a safe online community environment outside the noisy world of social media where you can subscribe and dive in and speak openly with heart-minded conscious horse people of all disciplines and breeds. This includes live seminars and classes from equine experts from all areas of the equestrian world. They also have the beautiful HeartHorse Box Subscription, I do love this one as it is centred around you, the conscious horse person receiving nourishing gifts for you as HeartHorse understand that you are already taking amazing care of your horse and want to make sure you are doing the same for yourself. I am thrilled to let you know that if you go to hearthorse.us and use the code EDENRIVER you will receive a 25% discount on your first month of the HeartHorse Community Membership. You may also like to check out their HeartHorse podcast it’s another great free resource from the HeartHorse team. You may even find the episode where I was a guest on their podcast talking about my life with horses and how this podcast and the conscious horse movement came about.In this episode I spoke with Mark Langley from Equine Ability. Mark is a man who grew up with horses and like so many from this podcast, started to question the training methods he had learned while travelling overseas. He saw a lot of push button horses that were shut down and he got curious as the driving pressure seemed to be shutting them down. And as happens so many times when you begin to question things, he was led to books written by Mark Rashid who gave him permission to take a different direction. He changed his main training method to “How can I help?” he realised that like Tom Dorrance said, a horse follows a feel not getting chased by it and his new way of training was born.It’s really interesting to hear that Mark began to see more shut down horses than ever when he started hosting clinics. We had a great conversation about shut down horses and he gives a lot of tips and examples and a lot of things to think about. And he made a great point, it’s us that shuts down horses, not pressure.I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Mark is humble, refreshing and full of information that he is happy to impart to us all.Website www.EquineAbility.com.auFacebook www.FaceBook.com/EquineAbilityInstagram www.Instagram.com/Mark.Langley.HorsemanshipPodcast Mark Langley Horsemanship https://marklangleyhorsemanship.podbean.com/YouTube www.Youtube.com/MarkLangleyOnline Training with Mark www.EquineAbility.com.au/join© Copyrighted

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.One of our small business subscribers for the podcast is the HeartHorse Box. HeartHorse was created by friends Tista and Charlotte who found a beautiful spot to place themselves in the horse world. They have created a safe online community environment outside the noisy world of social media where you can subscribe and dive in and speak openly with heart-minded conscious horse people of all disciplines and breeds. This includes live seminars and classes from equine experts from all areas of the equestrian world. They also have the beautiful HeartHorse Box Subscription, I do love this one as it is centred around you, the conscious horse person receiving nourishing gifts for you as HeartHorse understand that you are already taking amazing care of your horse and want to make sure you are doing the same for yourself. I am thrilled to let you know that if you go to hearthorse.us and use the code EDENRIVER you will receive a 25% discount on your first month of the HeartHorse Community Membership. You may also like to check out their HeartHorse podcast it’s another great free resource from the HeartHorse team. You may even find the episode where I was a guest on their podcast talking about my life with horses and how this podcast and the conscious horse movement came about.In this episode I speak with Caroline Hegarty who created a community called Equitopia.Caroline felt disempowered as a horse owner as the experts she has in farriers and trainers of her horses were telling her they knew best. Even when she was able to be brave and speak up they still shut her down. So being the amazing woman she is, Caroline decided to do something about it and created an online community where you as a horse owner can educate yourself, find support and also find great expert in their fields who are collaborative and open and always put the horse first.I love what Caroline has created and she will continue to grow what she has done and is truly helping horses all over the world to have a better life by empowering the owners like you and me.Equitopia has the course by Dr Sue Dyson as well, the Ridden Horse Ethogram that I spoke with Sue about a couple of episodes ago. So there is definitely great information and she has chosen her experts very well.To connect with Caroline you can follow the links belowWebsite: www.equitopiacenter.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/EquitopiaCenterInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/equitopiacenter/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCStLWsQPTJZ3pCB2RIL8jjgMembership: https://www.equitopiacenter.com/sign-up/I know you’ll enjoy this one as it is another way we can find support to be conscious horse people.© Copyrighted Tracy Malone

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.One of our small business subscribers for the podcast is the HeartHorse Box. HeartHorse was created by friends Tista and Charlotte who found a beautiful spot to place themselves in the horse world. They have created a safe online community environment outside the noisy world of social media where you can subscribe and dive in and speak openly with heart-minded conscious horse people of all disciplines and breeds. This includes live seminars and classes from equine experts from all areas of the equestrian world. They also have the beautiful HeartHorse Box Subscription, I do love this one as it is centred around you, the conscious horse person receiving nourishing gifts for you as HeartHorse understand that you are already taking amazing care of your horse and want to make sure you are doing the same for yourself. I am thrilled to let you know that if you go to hearthorsebox.com and use the code EDENRIVER you will receive a 25% discount on your first month of the HeartHorse Community Membership. You may also like to check out their HeartHorse podcast it’s another great free resource from the HeartHorse team. You may even find the episode where I was a guest on their podcast talking about my life with horses and how this podcast and the conscious horse movement came about.In this episode I speak with Dagmar from Animal Communication. Dagmar does animal communication as well as energy healing and body work. This is an area that has always fascinated me. While I can sense things from horses and I’m sure we can all understand what our horses are saying to us a lot of the time, this really is the next level of communication. Have a listen as to how much support you can give your horses and other animals if you learn this skill that Dagmar says anyone can learn. It’s always been interesting to me to ask questions around somethings that are really energy work an unexplainable and see what the interpretations are. I really enjoyed this chat with a talented communicator and horse woman.To connect with Dagmar you can follow the links below.Email: info@animalcommunication.com.auWebsite: www.animalcommunication.com.auFacebook: Animal Communication© Copyrighted

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.One of our small business subscribers for the podcast is the HeartHorse Box. HeartHorse was created by friends Tista and Charlotte who found a beautiful spot to place themselves in the horse world. They have created a safe online community environment outside the noisy world of social media where you can subscribe and dive in and speak openly with heart-minded conscious horse people of all disciplines and breeds. This includes live seminars and classes from equine experts from all areas of the equestrian world. They also have the beautiful HeartHorse Box Subscription, I do love this one as it is centred around you, the conscious horse person receiving nourishing gifts for you as HeartHorse understand that you are already taking amazing care of your horse and want to make sure you are doing the same for yourself. I am thrilled to let you know that if you go to hearthorsebox.com and use the code EDENRIVER you will receive a 25% discount on your first month of the HeartHorse Community Membership. You may also like to check out their HeartHorse podcast it’s another great free resource from the HeartHorse team. You may even find the episode where I was a guest on their podcast talking about my life with horses and how this podcast and the conscious horse movement came about.In this episode I speak with Belinda Bolsenbroek. Belinda has been on my radar for a few years as she coaches locally and I have seen the calibre of people who have worked with her and swear by her training and have always wanted to know more.And let me tell you Belinda exceeded all of my high expectations of a wonderful interview. Belinda reminded me of so many things that I value about working with horses and these things can so easily be lost and forgotten in searching for the correct method or techniques.Belinda believes that if you are focusing on technique or methods without having looked into the horse’s eyes and connected with their soul, then your technique will not ever matter nor will it work to build true connection with your horse.This was such an enlightening conversation and such a pleasure. This is one that I personally will be going back over a few times to remind myself of the essence of working with horses.You can connect with Belinda with the following linksWebsite https://www.belindabolsenbroek.academy/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/belindabolsenbroek.academyInstagram https://www.instagram.com/belindabolsenbroekacademy/© Copyrighted

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.One of our small business subscribers for the podcast is the HeartHorse Box. HeartHorse was created by friends Tista and Charlotte who found a beautiful spot to place themselves in the horse world. They have created a safe online community environment outside the noisy world of social media where you can subscribe and dive in and speak openly with heart-minded conscious horse people of all disciplines and breeds. This includes live seminars and classes from equine experts from all areas of the equestrian world. They also have the beautiful HeartHorse Box Subscription, I do love this one as it is centred around you, the conscious horse person receiving nourishing gifts for you as HeartHorse understand that you are already taking amazing care of your horse and want to make sure you are doing the same for yourself. I am thrilled to let you know that if you go to hearthorsebox.com and use the code EDENRIVER you will receive a 25% discount on your first month of the HeartHorse Community Membership. You may also like to check out their HeartHorse podcast it’s another great free resource from the HeartHorse team. You may even find the episode where I was a guest on their podcast talking about my life with horses and how this podcast and the conscious horse movement came about.In this episode I spoke with Alexandra Kurland. Alex is one of the first people in the world, over 30 years ago to bring clicker training to the horse world. In this 30 years she has refined her methods and learned to teach humans in a way that horses love. She is such an amazing teacher as you will hear. Alex says her ability to teach was taught to her by the horses she has worked with, they all taught her to step back, break it down and take her time, and to not be afraid to take it right back to the beginning if need be.As you can imagine as one of the originals in the horse world her wealth of knowledge of clicker training is extraordinary. I am so please to be able to bring you this conversation with a true legend of her field.To connect with Alexandra please follow these links.theclickercenter.comtheclickercenterblog.comtheclickercentercourse.comFacebook group: The Click That TeachesPodcastsequiosity.com - the podcast about all things equine.Horses for Future podcast - Horse people can make a difference in the climate change crisis - web site: sequestercarbon.com

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I speak with Mary Corning who is an author and life consultant for the horse world and beyond.She has written a book called Perfect Practice, A philosophy for living an authentic and transparent life.Mary is a Woman after my own heart we have so much in common in the way we see the world and live our lives.I loved every minute of this conversation and I know you will as well. What a rich and blessed life she has lived in being guided by both Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance.I’m so glad she has written her book and is able to share her wisdom with us all.To connect with Mary and purchase her book please click on the links belowWebsite url ishttps://marycorning.com/Facebook page is.https://www.facebook.com/MarySCorningLifeCoach/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/maryscorning/The book is available on Amazonhttps://marycorning.com/books/as well as most online bookstores - it is also searchable and available at walk in stores worldwide.Mary also offers signed special edition copies through her website. Here is the link to that.https://marycorning.com/books/© Tracy Malone

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I speak with Anu Joshi of Chetak Horses and who has just begun working with Detroit Horse power both of which we speak about in the podcast.Anu is a person of colour within the horse wold and I’ve been looking to open this conversation as the horse world can be a judgemental place for people with white skin let alone someone with brown skin and I wanted to hear how that has been for Anu and what we can learn from her experience and how we can make positive change on the racism in the horse world.As expected Anu is a really interesting human and we speak not only of racism in the horse world but about Anu and her accomplished career and her work and the positive change she is making.I hope you enjoy this open and heartfelt conversation with a beautiful horse woman.To connect with Anu please follow the link belowWebsite: http://www.chetakhorses.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chetakhorses/Instagram: chetakhorsesTwitter: chetakhorses YouTube: chetakhorsesOther Important Links: https://www.detroithorsepower.org/© Tracy Malone

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I speak with Kara from Musgrave Equestrian. Kara is a trainer who found her way due to her horse Ben have EPM a neurological disease in horses.Kara is a wealth of knowledge and found a combination of positive reinforcement, movement games and choice all came together to make up a wonderful program that she teaches online.This is another great story of how one horse changes the way a trainer works and opens their world to a whole new and more connected way of training.To connect with Kara you can follow the links belowWebsite musgraveequestrian.comFacebook. https://www.facebook.com/musgraveequestrian/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/musgraveequestrian/?hl=enYouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXzz0bPWO-_Cbmb8jUATvATicToc - @musgraveequestrian© Tracy Malone

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.It’s great to be bringing you another episode and I’m very happy to say we will be more regular again from here on in. The wonderful Lauren Arcay from Canada has joined the team and is doing the reaching out to guests for me and the podcast. The relief and joy I have of seeing a booking for a podcast interview come through into my emails is the best. So thank you Lauren for all you are doing it is so appreciated.In this episode, thanks to Lauren, I speak with Dr Sue Dyson. When I interviewed Dr Ann Bondi from The Saddle Research Trust she suggested I speak with Sue and I’m so glad that we found the time to speak with her because oh my she is out to change the horse world in a wonderful way. She has developed a tool on how to recognise the 24 behaviours indicating pain in the ridden horse.And she is backed by all the science you could possibly ever need.I could read out all Dr Sue Dyson has achieved in her lifetime thus far but it would probably take me 20 minutes to get through it all, and I’m not exaggerating! I’ll shorten it somewhat to give you an idea.Sue is a qualified vet who went on to specialise in clinical orthopaedics and lameness and poor performance in horses. Sue has been awarded fellowships PhD’s and is a Founding Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.Sue has lectured internationally and published widely on equine orthopaedics and diagnostic imaging. She has published more than 310 refereed papers in scientific journals, relating to lameness and diagnostic imaging in the horse.Sue is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Equine Veterinary Journal, Equine Veterinary Education and acts as a regular peer reviewer for a large number of journals.Sue was been a long-standing member of Council of the British Equine Veterinary Association and is a past President. She has also been a long-standing member of the Board of the World Equine Veterinary Association and Vice-President.Sue has been awarded far too many prizes to list and has been made an honorary member of Societa Italiana Veterinari Per Equini (SIVE), Italy. Sue was inducted into the University of Kentucky Equine Research Hall of Fame.Sue also holds the Instructors and Stable Managers Certificates of the British Horse Society (BHSI) and has competed at advanced level in both horse trials and show jumping, producing horses that have subsequently competed successfully at the Olympic Games and World Equestrian Games. She is a former veterinary advisor to British Eventing. Sue is veterinary advisor to the Saddle Research Trust and to Moorcroft Equine Rehabilitation Centre.And that folks, is her CV cut down to about 5%.Sue as you can see is not only a vet but she is an accomplished horsewoman who knows that to find the real issue with a horse you must do the basic check that most vets do then you have to see the horse ridden to see if the rider has any biomechanical issues that are effecting the horse, then she may even ride the horse herself to see if those issues are still present with a balanced rider like herself.Sue’s tool that she has created will save you money on vet visits, it will give you an educated opinion for your vet to consider, and it may even help to educate your vet on how to deal with pain in horses.Sue has created a tool that we as horse owners need as we know there is an issue with our horse but no vet can find it. Well this tool can.I hope you enjoy this talk and I really hope you can spread the word about Sue’s creation as horses all over the world will benefit if you do.To connect with Sue herself you can email her sue.dyson@aol.comTo see the Ridden Pain Ethogram course click here© Copyrighted Tracy Malone

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.I am looking for someone to help me with the admin side of the podcast. Not editing but the admin. Emailing potential guests, following up with them, booking their interview times. This can be done from anywhere in the world so you don’t have to be Australian. It is a casual and paid position. This is a real block for me being able to get back to weekly episodes on the podcast. I can send out the original emails OK but then the follow ups all get lost in my day to day running a business and being an independent Mumma and weeks have gone by and I’m running in circles. So it’s now time to ask for help! If this is something that interests you please shoot me an email at info@edenriverequestrian.comThis is a solo episode as there have been some amazing insights unfolding recently and I wanted to share them with you as it is entirely possible they may land with you and help you somehow as they did when they landed in me. It's all about how you can find your voice and speak up for your horse and why it is so important to do so.You can join our Facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/376101009782763© Tracy Malone

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me.There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.A shout out to our newest Patreon subscribers. Jelle Miedema thank you for your support and also to Victoria Bradshaw thank you for your support. Your monthly subscription makes my job here so much easier.In this episode I speak with Ginger Gaffney. Ginger is a horse trainer and author. She wrote and amazing book called Half Broke. It was Paul Szauter from Equisec who recommended this book to me so thanks Paul, I bought it on audible and listened to it twice. For those who know my background in years gone by in Equine Assisted Counselling, this book is such a gem about the horse human relationship.The book is the true story of Ginger’s work on an alternative to prison ranch where she gets a phone call from residents who are part of the horse team who have horses that are dangerous and aggressive to the point of physical harm to the humans feeding them. Ginger heads out there and helps out.This book tells the story of the residents and horses that Ginger helps and how they grow and change together, beautifully wound with the telling of Ginger’s own story from her childhood. And as happens so many times when working with horses and humans in this way, Ginger found that she needed to be here helping these people and horses just as much as they needed her. She does not get paid for this work.I loved this book as I said before. Please read it or please listen to it on audible. It shows just how powerful the horse human relationship is. I believe it’s one of the most powerful and beautiful things on the planet. And reading this book shows me that I may just be right.Ginger is a pleasure to speak with, I was so happy to find out more about some of the people in the book, where they are now, did they make it or not. Ginger still helps out at the ranch when she can get there, due to Covid it’s been difficult. And I will be keeping an eye out for her next book that she is working on now.To connect with Ginger see links belowWebsite https://gingergaffney.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/gingergaffneyauthorBUY THE BOOKAmazon https://www.amazon.com/Half-Broke-Memoir-Ginger-Gaffney/dp/1324003073Book Depository https://www.bookdepository.com/Half-Broke-Ginger-Gaffney/9781324003076?ref=grid-view&qid=1599044754946&sr=1-3Audible https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Half-Broke-Audiobook/1684578086?qid=1599044799&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=771c6463-05d7-4981-9b47-920dc34a70f1&pf_rd_r=TFHDMH9346GBB9EXRQSY© Tracy Malone

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.It’s time to give a shout out to new Patreon subscribers, Anna Lory and Sarah Powell, thank you so much for all your support, it’s very much appreciated.In this episode I speak with Bex Tasker from Positively Together, Bex works with positive reinforcement to help horse owners build confidence and works toward the goal of her student to no longer need her at some stage and be able to take the reins themselves.Bex has an interesting life story of working as a customs drug detector at the airport and then in senior intelligence roles for New Zealand law enforcement agencies.Bex is a wonderful trainer who even though working in positive reinforcement, or clicker training, supports and learns from many styles of training. I love her open mind and heart and her ability to put the horse first by understanding that even though she knows an awful lot, she is still a student of the horse as we all are.So sit back and relax, or enjoy your drive or mucking out your stables and paddocks as you learn more from the wonderful Bex Tasker.Website https://www.clickertraining.co.nz/Facebook - facebook.com/positive.reinforcement.trainingInstagram - @positively_togetherOnline communities and classrooms: www.positivelytogether.app© Copyrighted Tracy Malone

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I spoke with horse trainer and behaviouralist Chris Irwin. Thanks to Nina who on Instagram told me about Chris, once I took one look at his website I asked for an interview, I knew he’d have some gems for us all.Chris grew up in a home that was not safe and as a sensitive child honed his skills in reading body language like so many of us have done from these types of upbringing. He also learned that the lack of congruence was not safe either, what people are saying and their actions were not aligned, this does not allow us to relax, we cannot rest in our nervous system, we are living in our fight flight mode. We have choices in this situation as a child, fight, leave or shut down. A lot of people I know chose to shut down. Chris was brave enough to leave and this is what eventually led him to a life with horses.When Chris started working with horses people told him that it was not like he was learning to train horses, it looked like he was remembering horses. I believe this is the skills that he honed in his early life in a not safe environment about body language. Horses spoke his language and he spoke theirs.I have always believed that as horse people we are doing the best we can with the information we have, this is why I started the podcast, to get more information out into the world so that when we know better we can do better. There are some great gems in this conversation from Chris about body language that can help us do better.To connect with Chris please follow these linkswebsiteFacebook

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.I’d like to say a big thanks to our latest Patreon subscriber, Julia Tonkin, Julz you are a champion, thanks so much for your support.In this episode I speak with Paul Szauter and Paul is not a horse person! Paul is a scientist. He is actually the Chief Scientific Officer of EquiSec who are one of the few places in the world you can test your horse for PSSM2.Recently I was made aware of a disease called PSSM1 in a friends horse, as she is my horse, Gypsy’s half-sister I got her tested as well as she was exhibiting some of the symptoms. Gypsy came back negative but as I am who I am and I do what I do, then my interest was peaked. And this happened because as I asked more and more people about PSSM1 I realised there was little to no awareness of this condition. So I decided to find someone who did have knowledge. This is how I came across Paul and his work.Most of the podcasts that I do are of value to share as they can support changes to training and handling of horses all over the world. This podcast is one of the most important ones for you to share as every single horse person in the world needs to be made aware of this disease and if you are ever buying a horse, this test needs to be done if your breed is on the long list that is knows to have had the disease. Together we can make a difference by talking about it with other horse owners and understanding the symptoms to look out for. This is especially important for trainers to be aware of as the gait abnormalities is something they will easily see when working with PSSM2 horses.So have a listen to the podcast, take it all in, and then please share and open our horse world up to PSSM 1 and 2 and let’s make a positive difference to the lives of horses.To connect with Paul and to see the videos we spoke about in the podcast please see the links below.Website: http://equiseq.com/index.phpEquiSeq's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EquiSeq1Paul's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paul.szauterPaul and the EquiSeq team are frequently on the following forums on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/202978353056065https://www.facebook.com/groups/833944333446431The videos we spoke of in the podcast are as followsLimb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 2A walking human https://youtu.be/TKL5krEsiVILimb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy 2A Human rising from the ground https://youtu.be/uc5VJMrE0mcPSSM & MFM Symptoms - Horse at Canter https://youtu.be/EHXEPLEZOG0

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.I’d love to say a huge thank you to our new Patreon subscriber Angie Wentrup, thank you so much Angie for joining the patreon community to keep the podcast rolling along. I’d also like to thank Karen Laude for her one off Paypal contribution. If you would also like to do a one-off payment you are very welcome to, just get in contact via my website or social media and let you know how to go about it.In this episode I speak with Martin Contreras, Martin trains in liberty and works with horse owners to build a strong foundation for working with horses and really honing your intuitive skills to build the foundations and levels of communication needed to strengthen the bond with your horse. Martin is a great trainer in his own right and also keeps up his own training, he is currently working under Steph Vincent to develop his in-hand work.I was lucky enough to attend one of Martin’s clinics in Brisbane about 5 years ago with my mare Gypsy. He works in such a gentle and intuitive way with horses and it is a true partnership and 2-way communication.In this conversation we talk about many things, one of them being what the word liberty really means and I’m so glad we did as it is something that I feel has been a little misused in the horse world. To be at liberty a horse is not just free of tack. I will read you the dictionary definition of liberty so you have something to ponder while listening to Martin’s story. It means the quality or state of being free. The power to do as one pleases. Freedom from physical restraint. Freedom from arbitrary or despotic control, despot means a ruler with absolute power and authority. The positive enjoyment of various privileges. The power of choice.So while you ponder that, sit back and enjoy this conversation.To connect with Martin please click on the links belowFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/MartinContrerasHorseTrainingatLiberty/Instagramhttps://instagram.com/martin_contreras_horsemanship?igshid=1blrtdrmm7kghFor clinics, in-person or online Lessons, contact Martin via social media or at horsetrainingatliberty@gmail.com.

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.I’d like to give a shout out to 2 new patreon subscribers Kerrie Ellery and Lisa Mills, thank you both so much for taking action and supporting me in this podcast.In this episode I spoke with Franklin Levinson. It’s a real privilege to speak with someone who has given so much to the gentle training of horses for so many years.Franklin as a boy found himself always seeking peace due to loudness in his life. This is how he came to connect with horses so well. He saw in them what he was looking for himself. He does not believe in bad horses, he also believes horses are always right. Franklin says horses when they react to something are in a state of fear, not disrespect, and you can be a great horseperson when you are able to realise that the horse is simply a peace seeker. So instead of punishing a horse or correcting a horse what you can do is lead the horse to a place within themselves of safety and peace.This is a beautiful conversation with a beautiful man and I hope you get as much out of it as I did.To connect with Franklin follow the links belowWebsite http://www.acourseinhorse.com/index.phpFacebook https://www.facebook.com/franklin.levinson

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I speak with Emily Frost who has a business called Kiros Way where she teaches people to re-wild themselves with horses. Emily co-creates with unbridled horses and helps you to remember what it’s like to be free, both you and your horse. She teaches you to communicate in a language beyond words, while exploring different shades and expressions of spirit.I found speaking with Emily that the simple act of her telling me her story brought my own childhood memories and dreams to the surface and it really helped me to remember that my current goals with my horses are not aligned with my childhood dreams. So for me this was quite profound. I’ve always believed in the power of storytelling to make positive change in the world and this time, I was blessed enough that it happened for me too.Emily is a beautiful story teller and I hope you are transported to your childhood horse dreams as well and we can all being our re-wilding together.To connect with Emily please use the links below.Website https://www.kirosway.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1198128642Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kirosway/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/GALLOPSwithTHEwind

As you will all be aware there is a movement finally getting the air time it deserves, it’s the #blacklivesmatter movement and it’s important to take a moment to talk about it.As a white woman I have stayed quiet for some time as it is so difficult to know what to say. I want to speak up and out for black lives in both the US and Australia, but I don’t want to say the wrong thing or disrespect anyone. So I’ve donated to gofundme legal accounts for 3 Indigenous court cases looking to find answers to black deaths in custody. I post a lot on my personal social media pages and always speak up to those who post racist comments or get in on the all lives matter argument.I’ve since reached out to African American people in the horse world but they seem to be inundated at the moment and I don’t get any replies. I will keep trying, this does not have a time limit. If you know of any people of colour working with horses in any way please let me know.Usually I only interview people working in gentle and ethical ways with horses but I believe that there is racism in the horse world and it runs deep and that people of colour are not given the opportunities that we as white people have been given. They may not even know that our way exists. I also believe that in order to make change in the world we need to invite everyone in, especially those who are in the minority in the horse world. We can’t make change by excluding people because we see pain in the eyes of their horse or because we don’t like the way that they train. We make change by inviting those people in and with love and respect, hearing their story and introducing them to the possibilities.So if you know of anyone who would like to be heard and tell their story here on the podcast then please get in touch with me.You will notice in the intro of this podcast I do an acknowledgement of country. This is one way that I show respect at all times to the first Australian’s and their culture and people. I wanted to do it from the outset of my podcast but didn’t know exactly how to do it respectfully, so I waited until I interviewed Dr Tauri Simone and asked her advice.I do the acknowledgment of country as it is an aboriginal Australian creation that they use and have shared with us as white Australian’s, I believe that when you are given a gift of the culture of your land, the least you can do it use it with respect. I don’t make huge changes or do it my way. I show it the respect it deserves and deliver it in the way they have done for thousands of years.I searched for a long time when I started this podcast for indigenous horse trainers and found absolutely no one. In 2018 NAIDOC week which is an acronym for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee the theme was Because of her we can.This is where I saw the work of Dr Tauri Simone where she researched the influence of aboriginal women on the Australian pastoral industry. It took me weeks to find a contact for her as she is not on social media, I had to go through her university website then finally found her on linkedin. She then months later when she logged onto LinkedIn agreed to an interview and we arranged a time. It was always tricky as she lives on a station in Western Australia and may or may not have internet coverage on any given day or may be out bush working. But we got there eventually.I wanted to replay this interview once again as it is the one I am most proud of, in all the interviews I have done being able to bring the culture of the land I live on to the world makes me very proud.It is also important to hear what first Australian women endured when colonisation occurred. Tauri and I talked off mic about how she kept the interview and the story positive but the research and interviews and accounts she read during her research were heart breaking and she almost gave up so many times as the pain was so strong for what her ancestors endured at the hands of white man.So as you listen to this please know that while things are better for aboriginals today, they’re not that much better really and slavery and the stolen generation are the grandparents of young adult first Australians today. They carry a lot of trauma and some still have no idea where their family is.On a positive note in the podcast you can imagine what kind of women they were and how on earth they were able to ride horses at night to round up cattle who were on a blind run.It’s an amazing story on every level and I thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. I’d also ask that this is the episode to share with friends, share the story of horse Australia was built and the extraordinary skill of these indigenous women.May we all come together and look back on this time as the moment we remember that the world truly changed to a kinder place and a safer place for all people of colour.If you'd like to support this podcast you can by going to www.patreon.com/comealongforhteridepodcast where you can become a subscriber and help me to keep this podcast going.© Copyrighted

I’d first like to take a moment to thank everyone who responded to my last podcast episode. I honestly though it may well be time to turn to something new and give this up. I was very pleasantly surprised to see the response. Thus I am still here and will be coming to you weekly once again. I’d truly appreciate it if you can go to www.patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and become a supporter like these amazing peopleSigne of HorsesRachel Beddingfield from Connection TrainingLouise EhrichLiz EhrichLauren ArcayJessica VoellerFiona WagstaffElisa MansfieldEiddwen SkellonBelinda DawsBelinda AnnePeter PappThis weeks episode was recorded in October 2019 and was a part of Anna Blake’s Australian Tour where I hosted Anna here in South East Qld. This was the evening of day 1 of the clinic. I love doing solo interviews but I really love a live audience where everyone can be involved and great questions are asked, which is what happened here. So being October 2019 this was way before covid so groups of as many people as you like were allowed, it’s hard to remember that kind of time but it happened! I really loved the group that came along to this clinic. It was a place of such great conversation and learning and I’m so glad to be able to share this podcast with you today.If you’d like to learn more about Anna Blake you may want to listen to the first interview I did with her back in episode 22 of the podcast.To connect with Anna you can follow any of these linksIf you'd like to buy Anna's books then you can go to book depository here.To read Anna's blog, organise a session with her or see where her next workshop is you can go to her blog website.She also has an author website here.To connect with Petep Papp from peter and the Herd you can do so here.FacebookInstagram

Hi everyone. I’m coming into your ears for a different reason today. I usually always keep the narrative positive and dislike and negativity being used around my brand at any time. So I’m way out of my comfort zone here but it’s time to be brave and vulnerable and honest.You see I started this podcast and my business Eden River Equestrian a few years ago now. It had been a dream of mine for a very long time and it took the catalyst of my mother passing away and me doing the eulogy at her funeral for me to truly realise that life is way too short to not live your dreams. So I dived in and began this podcasting journey and it’s been amazing to be able to make such a positive change in the lives of so many horses from all over the world.My passion to build my business was to literally make the world a better pace by selling natural and sustainable products, sourcing products from trusted suppliers and making some myself with the planet that both us and our horses eat from and gain out nutritional needs from, was always in the forefront of my mind.However just like in life, things need to be sustainable in more ways than just the products that I have for sale and for the information given over this podcast. It needs to be sustainable for me, the person who spends my life putting countless hours into these passions. While life had taken a toll on my health last year, and then the breakdown of a relationship meant I had to stop for a few months. This year Eden River Equestrian and this podcast Come Along for the Ride need to be able to sustain me and my son and my horses and animals. Otherwise it needs to all be shut down. Because the truth is, it is not sustainable for me. I make absolutely no profit from these two ventures and I have been putting time and energy into them for over 2 years now. I am not only not profiting, but I am running at massive losses and as you know, this is not sustainable.If you could see the messages I get and the information that I give to people via email and messenger you would easily think I was making a hefty profit, people’s lives have been changed, horses have been saved as their humans finally wake up to another way. The trainers I interview and the sponsors on my podcast all do well financially from this venture and for this I am eternally grateful and very proud of the positive impact I have made. But to go on like this with no profit to myself is just another form of self-harm, and I’m done with this very dark part of my life and story. To continually give to others without receiving in return is no longer what I am willing to endure in any area of my life.So I am here to ask you, what needs to change? What does this podcast have to do, what changes does it have to make for you to give $5 a month? Or even $2 a month. I know by the messages I receive and the amount of continual downloads that the information is valuable. So I am truly asking you what will make the difference for you to go to patreon and give $5 a month. If everyone who listened to this podcast gave $5 a month, I would be having a totally different conversation with you right now. For those who now support me and have done through this whole journey, my truly heartfelt thanks. You are the reason I have been able to come this far and have been able to make a difference. You are my people and I thank you every day.I’d also love to know what Eden River Equestrian can do for you to make the choice to purchase from the website. The amount of people, even friends who ask for advice about feeding and herbs and then make the choice to buy their herbs form somewhere else is quite honestly breathtaking. I’d love to know what you want me to provide for you that you would be willing to purchase? Tell me what your values are, what do you regularly buy that you want me to stock. How can I make this business turn a profit to then be able to make an even bigger change to the lives of horses?You see my dream was so much bigger than a podcast and a website. I truly know how to go about making a global positive change for horses. But to do anything like this takes investment, not just of time but resources.It’s a very vulnerable decision to put this out there and ask these questions and ask for your help and honesty. But it came to the point of do this or disappear.If it is time to shut it down then I will do so quietly and I will do something else. I am a creative person who is able to turn my hand at anything and a new idea will come and I will make it happen as I always do.I will pick myself up and go on, I just can’t go on like this.So please send me and email to info@edenriverequestrian.com or shoot me a dm through my socials and let me know what needs to change and if the changes are possible I promise to make them.Thanks for taking the time to listen to this all the way through. I appreciate it and truly hope to be able to serve you better in the future.

If you would like to become a patron of this podcast and help support all the work I do then please head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast this is where you can subscribe, for as little as $5 a month. $5 a month isn’t much to you, but it means the world to me. I’d love for you to consider it it’s at patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcastIn this episode I speak with Jane Myers from Equiculture. Jane and her husband Stuart created the Equicentral system of managing horse properties in a sustainable way out of Stuarts constant questing of why things are done a certain way. Why do we have to take the hay out to the horse, why can’t they come in for it? In the coming years they have refined and are continually adding new information to this amazing system. We talk about so many of my favourite topics, soil, regenerative farming methods, manure and dung beetles, mulch and how you too can make a huge difference to your horse property.I’ve been an organic gardener for over 10 years now so I was a kid in a candy store in this conversation but the best part for me was that in the course of this conversation Jane converted my entire mindset from horses are bad for the land and environment to horses are great for the environment, bad management makes them look bad but they are not.I hope you get some great insights and tips from this interview as I did.To connect with Jane please follow any of the links below.Website: www.equiculture.netFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/equicultureJaneMyersTwitter: https://twitter.com/EquicultureJaneInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/horseridersmechanic/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/EquicultureandHorseRidersMechanicPinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/janem5144/Linked in: www.linkedin.com/in/jane-myers-equiculture© TracyMalone

If you would like to become a patron of this podcast and help support all the work I do then please head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast this is where you can subscribe, for as little as $5 a month. $5 a month isn’t much to you, but it means the world to me. I’d love for you to consider it it’s at patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcastIn this episode I spoke with Warwick Schiller from Warwick Schiller Performance Horsemanship. Most of you may of heard of Warwick and probably follow him on the socials so you will know that he travels the world helping people with training their horses and has a really large following worldwide. He believes you are the perfect person to train your horse.The great part about talking to Warwick for me is that his story reminded me of why I started this podcast and brought me back to my core values as a horse person. I believe that we have such an influence on horses by what we are holding in our bodies and minds and we bring it to them every time we approach or train or ride them.He also reminded me that horses really want one thing only from us and that is our presence.I didn't want to get into training specifics with Warwick as such as he gives you all of this online already. I wanted to know about his personal story on his change in who he is and how he does things. I wanted to see what makes him tick.A heads up, this is the longest podcast I’ve done it’s just over 2 hours. So sit back and enjoy the ride!To connect with Warwick please follow one of the links below.https://videos.warwickschiller.com/https://www.warwickschiller.com/https://www.facebook.com/pg/Warwickschillerfanpagehttps://www.instagram.com/warwickschillerhttps://www.youtube.com/user/WarwickSchiller

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I speak with Mary Richards from Enriched Equine. As her business name states, Mary helps horse owners enrich their horses lives through so many varied and interesting techniques. We talk about what enrichment is and how it relates to horses in stalls or stables and also for those on acreage.I must say it was very enriching to have this conversation about enrichment, it really got my mind engaged and thinking about new things. So even just by having this conversation I can feel in myself the positive aspects that it will be able to bring to my horses lives.The wonderful thing about enrichment Mary says, is that it is only limited by your imagination. So sit back and enjoy, and hopefully be engaged and enriched by the wonderful Mary Richards.To show us what you have done to enrich the life of your horse please go to our Facebook page To connect with Mary please follow the links belowWebsite: https://www.enrichedequine.com/Facebook:@theenrichedequine

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.This interview is with Dr Tauri Simone an Aboriginal woman who has spent years writing a thesis on Aboriginal Stockwomen; Their Legacy in the Australian Pastoral Industry. Tauri is not only an incredibly well-educated woman, she is also a stockwoman, who lives in the outback of western Australia on a property that is 1.3 million acres. She musters cattle, no longer on horseback, but she used to. She lives a privileged life compared to the women she writes about.In this interview you will hear how it is for a stockwoman now and how it was for those who came before her. It’s a fascinating story for any horse lover to hear how these women trained and rode horses to round up cattle and jump off their horses and spear tackle cattle!Taurie is a brave woman choosing to tell this story, her legacy is that she is telling the story as something for aboriginal people to be proud of. She leaves out most of the atrocities as the trauma does not need to be opened again, but the story of these unbelievably resilient and capable women, must live on.I believe, this is the type of story that we need to keep telling to begin the healing of colonialism and to move forward as one people.To read Dr Tauri Simone's full paper you can go to this link and download the pdf and have a good read. please have a read, let's all keep these stories that matter circulating so they can't be lost.

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode you will hear from Mel Fleming from Connecting with Horses and Riding with Synchronicity.Mel has been lucky enough to spend her life around horses. Her family were well known horse people and she was able, through hard work and support from her family, to go through the ranks of the horse world and work at a high level of dressage, to the highest level of natural horsemanship where she worked internationally with Pat and Linda Parelli among many other internationally renowned trainers.Mel is one of those people who keeps asking questions, she never settles for less. It seems she needs to go deep and make sure the horse is alright on every level as her deep need to connect fully with the horse and make a true partnership comes before the end performance result she is seeking. This is what has taken Mel all over the world developing her skills as she goes, the need to find someone who has the answers to her questions.In asking these questions Mel has been able to form her own style of horsemanship.On her website she says. “I think that true horsemanship is horsemanship from the horse’s perspective. What would horse’s call horsemanship and who would horses call a horseman?”“TRUE HORSEMANSHIP means putting yourself in the horse’s skin, seeing things through their eyes, thinking how they are thinking and feeling how they are feeling. Going beyond merely perceiving them as prey animals and knowing the individual beings (the spirits) that they are. In equal proportion to understanding the spirit of who horses are, true horsemanship also means understanding their physical bodies, so they can be ridden with true balance and healthy biomechanics. This is the only way that the ridden horse can stay sound, be healthy, be calm and yet responsive, enjoy their work and maximise their performance. This is what “Connecting with Horses & Riding with Synchronicity” strives to achieve.”Mel has the ability and the formula to go deep into each horse and help build a bond between horse and rider that is strong, and because of the biomechanics element, long lasting and sound.You can find out when Mel is coming to a town near you on her website and you can follow her on Facebook.Mel will open your mind to the difference between the use of techniques versus true connection when working with horses. She will challenge your current beliefs around horsemanship, and that can only be a good thing. I love learning more about true connection and Mel certainly gave me a lot to consider.I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.Angela Davison is The Horse Herbalist, she has spent her life and career with horses in many different ways. Starting out in showjumping in her native country of England, she came to Australia to visit her Dad and decided to make a life here.Angela was one of the first licensed female jockeys in Australia. Now her story up until this point would make an excellent episode in itself. However, it gets even more interesting when she decided, after seeing so many horses who were not able to be helped by modern medical methods, when she herself was always back on the horse quite fast from her chiropractic treatments and the herbal remedies that her chiropractor gave her, to go on and study herbalism and body work for both humans and horses.This led her to a career of giving back to horses in quite a fascinating way. Angela took 7 years to develop a technique she calls hair testing. This is not taking hair and putting it into a machine and getting a report back. This is about connection with the horse on a deep level to find the cause of the symptom. In herbalism Angela learned how to treat the whole being instead of just the symptom so she developed this method to give her this edge and be able to get real results faster than she could without them. There was no need to do hundreds of dollars worth of tests to try and find the problem, she created a method to get right to the source.It might all sound a bit hard to believe, but after 20 years of results and thousands of cases of success under her belt, Angela is definitely the real deal. As a Horse Herbalist Angela has treated top performance horses including the partnership she sponsors Shannan Goodwin and her horse Astro who are competing in dressage at Grand prix level.This episode is full of great information for how we can all understand our horses a bit better and see them as whole beings. But the best part, for me, was hearing all of the stories of horses that she helped along the way. She tells such great stories of the results she has gained for horses all over the world from all disciplines and breeds.You can find more information on Angela and her hair testing and products at her website. And you can follow her on her Facebook page.

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I speak with Rachaël Draaisma. Rachaël is the incredible woman who brought us the book on Language Signs and Calming Signals for Horses. Today she tells her story of her teachers and mentors and how she came to write the book. We find out how she went about researching for her book and how long it took her to find what she was hoping for.Rachaël also has some new and very interesting research and training that she is undertaking with horses and scent tracking. It’s incredible to hear what she has been able to do so far.Grab a cuppa and enjoy every minute of hearing from the woman who has inspired so many of the trainers I have interviewed so far on this podcast.To connect with Rachaël you can do so in the links below.Website www.calmingsignalsofhorses.comFacebook https://www.facebook.com/Calming-Signals-of-Horses-1253419824725141/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyu9-AB_1909eOfXbiCF6Mg

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I speak with Kim Walnes from The Way of the Horse. This one is along one folks, I thought about doing it in 2 parts but couldn’t make you wait that long for this incredible story. Through most of this interview I had a lump in my throat and at the end of it I just wanted to reach through the internet, all the way across the ocean to America and give Kim an enormous hug and say “My word you’ve been through a lot”.Kim Walnes knows what it’s like to live your dream at be at the pinnacle of the horse riding world winning Rolex on her horse the Grey Goose in 1982. She tained with internationally renowned Jack LeGough and rode at Badminton. She has also ridden as a double to Melissa Gilbert in the movie Sylvester.However in 1991 she also experienced the lowest of lows when she lost her daughter who was murdered. I now right.Kim then later had a car accident where she had to be revived, her explanation of this time is incredible, her daughter was there, she wanted to stay but it wasn’t her time.Kim is one of those people who was born part horse. Horse was her first word, she can hear when they speak and she has now decided a great life lived is one where she can teach people about these incredible sentient beings and how you too can have true connection with your horse.To connect with Kim you can go to her Way of the horse Facebook page.© Copyrighted

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode I speak with Adele Shaw from The Willing Equine. Adele is a horse trainer who works in a completely holistic way with horses. She teaches her clients that a horse needs a good environment, a good diet, a body that feels good and a human that is aware of their body language before even getting to how to train a horse. All this before even getting into the saddle. Ahhh imagine if all horses were afforded the same respect?This is an interesting conversation with a refreshing and skilled horsewoman. In every podcast I learn a lot for my own training and how to go about things and this is yet another moment where I am given information to be able to take my horses and to the next level. I really how it does the same for you.You can find Adele on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube© Copyrighted

If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.In this episode you will hear from Emma Booth who is a truly extraordinary human being. She has represented Australia at the Olympics and this year at WEG as a para equestrian.Emma has been at the forefront of my mind for an interview since I heard her story through another podcast so I was thrilled when she said “yes let’s do it tomorrow” at EQUITANA when I asked her for an interview. Some people might take pity on people who are not fully able bodied, or have been through the kind of trauma Emma has. I personally have a reverence for them. Especially Emma, she is strong and capable and sits with intention and will not be seen anything other than an incredible athlete in her own right, because listeners, that’s exactly what she is.I hope you can hear how extraordinary she is and that you enjoy this interview as much as I did.To connect with Emma you can find her on her Website, Facebook, Instagram, TwitterYou can also see pictures from the day on the blog on my website www.comealongfortheride.com.au/emma-booth-para-equestrian© Copyrighted Tracy Malone

I know it’s been a while and I’ve been irregular on posting podcasts, so thank you so much for hanging in there with me. I’m back now and will be posting this new episode today, then I will do weekly playback of our most listened to episodes, then another new episode in a month then some more favourite episodes and then the following month I will get back into new weekly episodes. It’s time to dive back in and keep making the world a better place for horses!If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd.This weeks episode is with Dominique Day, Dominique has a business called Equiosity which she runs with Alexandra Kurland, who was one of the original people in the world to bring positive reinforcement training to the horse world. Together they do a podcast called Equiosity as well as online courses and webinars. Dominique was one of the creators of Cavalia and it’s a wonderful story to hear about how it all began, but it is certainly not the most interesting part of her story. She has had a wonderful progression from watching more traditional methods of horse training into positive reinforcement. Keeping strong with her gut feeling and knowing there must be a better way, you may very well be able to relate to this very closely. You are going to love this story as much as I did recording it.Dominique Day on FacebookEquiosity website where you will also find the Equiosity podcast.

Hi everyone, it’s wonderful to be back in your ears again. A huge Happy New year to you all, may this new decade bring joy and love and abundance to us all.First I’d like to say thank you to our Patreon subscribers. As it’s a new year I want to shout out to all of you. So a big thank you to Amanda Phillips, Amy Lopez, Belinda Daws, Elisa Mansfield, Kathryn O’Bree, Liz Ehrich, Peter Papp, Rachel Beddingfield and Signe of Horses. You all mean the world to me and I am so grateful that you are on this ride with me literally.Please remember our small business patrons. Belinda Daws is an incredible Connection Training Coach who is calm, confident and incredibly skilled, Belinda can help you with training your horse just like she has helped me with mine. I can highly recommend her beautiful coaching work.A huge shout out to our other small business patron Peter Papp from Peter and the Herd. Peter has just had to evacuate his beautiful herd due to bushfires where he is living. His community came together to help out and it was so beautiful to watch as they all worked to get his horses to safety well before the fires got close.Peter does with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. I had a reading myself with Peter and I found him to be completely spot on with his insights. It’s a great way to support him through these bushfires and trying times is to support his business. You can find the links to both Belinda and Peter in the show notes.You may remember from the last episode my life is in a bit of turmoil at the moment. At the end of last year I separated from my partner and Oliver and I are staying with my sister down in the Riverina in NSW for now until we can get some finances together to get back to Qld and start a new life. I’ve learned an enormous amount in the last few months about other people not behaving in the way you do. I thought we could separate and have an adult conversation and divide assets and work to both thrive and move on through a difficult time. I was very very wrong. Even though I am going through a steep learning curve, Oliver and I are very safe, safe from harm and safe from the fires raging in Australia at the moment. We drove about 1500km from Qld down to the Riverina along the coast and I saw the devastation from the fires first hand. The fires had crossed highways and burned so much land, it was black for about 30km with small patches of green where they had worked so hard and saved houses in the middle of these catastrophic fires.We were nowhere near the fires as we travelled but the smoke was everywhere. There were no days travelling when I did not wake to be reminded of the destruction happening to people, animals and especially the native animals that were unable to flee.In Australia now people have just got into action to help horse owners get the supplies they so desperately need. If you are in Australia please check with your local Vet, produce store or Horseland, these are a few who are taking donations for horse people and shipping them to those in need.I have also set up a gofundme page for Horse Owners Affected by Australian Bushfires. I will put the link in the show notes. https://www.gofundme.com/f/horse-owners-affected-by-australian-bushfires?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheetKnow that every dollar you give will go directly to horse owners in need. As we reach our goal of $5,000 I will get the funds to where it is needed and it will be completely transparent. Then we can set about raising our next $5,000 and so on until we have done all that we can for horse owners who have been through this devastation. I would be donating profits of my own business to the cause but I’ve had to shut the business down as I’m so far away and unable to run it at this time. So if you have been to the site and wondering why everything says out of stock, it’s simply that I am not able to function it at this time. But know that I will be back, and this is going to be an amazing year for us all. A new year, a new decade, although things are difficult for so many, I still feel that we will come together and make it amazing.In all that has happened so far this year to me and those in the bush fires here in Australia. I wanted to start this years podcast with a truly inspirational story.Now I know that, like me, your blood may very well boil at how this horse went blind. However, what I have learned in the past few months of what I have been through personally is that you can’t live your life looking backwards into the past and expecting change, anger at the past gets you absolutely nowhere. It keeps you locked into the past and unable to see into and manifest the future that your heart truly desires. So take a few deep breaths through that part then allow your heart and mind to be opened by the amazing story of Ashlyn Dyer and her beautiful horse Wintara Cadence or as she calls her Cady. Cady is a blind horse who Ashlyn now takes out to dressage shows. It is such a beautiful and inspirational story and I hope you get as much out of this story as I did. Link to Ashlyn's Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Wintara-Cadence-Cady-1537936826339698/Belinda Daws’ website is journeyequine.com and you can find her on all the usual social Facebook, Instagram and twitter.You can find Peter Papp from Peter and the Herd through his Facebook page Peter and the herd or his Instagram by the same name.

Hi everyone, it’s so great to be back in your ears again. I have to tell you that I have been going through, and still am going through, one of the most difficult times of my life right now. I can’t say too much publicly but I will put a video up under the paywall of Patreon so those who are subscribers can know what is going on. So if I’m a bit all over the place with getting a podcast up, please hang in there with me. It’s not deliberate, just know I’m doing the best that I can right now.I’d love to tell you about one of our wonderful patrons Peter Papp, Peter is a small business patron who gets his business promoted on every podcast and on my social media pages. Peter’s business is Peter and the Herd. He works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter was kind enough to do a reading or communication session with my mare Gypsy, it was fantastic, he told me things that only I could understand and how Gypsy would like more fun in her life but she understands, so even when Peter had no idea what I was going through, he as able to give me a beautiful message from my girl that she does know what I’m going through and at the other side can we have some fun please? Peter was also able to speak to me about her pain and where it was happening, a few weeks later I had an osteo look over Gypsy and she confirmed what Peter said. So I can personally highly recommend Peter and his work. You can find Peter through his Facebook page Peter and the herd or his Instagram by the same name.Our other small business patron is Belinda Daws from Journey Equine. Belinda is based on the Gold Coast and can travel to surrounding areas. Belinda is a Connection Training Coach who is calm, gentle and a very knowledgeable trainer, so much so that she is my trainer for me and my girls. To connect with Belinda get in touch with Belinda, I did and she is now mine and my horses coach. Belinda’s website is journeyequine.com and you can find her on all the usual social Facebook, Instagram and twitter.If you would like to become a patron of this podcast and help bring it back to weekly episodes then please head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast this is where you can subscribe, for as little as $5 a month and help me get production costs covered to be able to bring you more content, more regularly. $5 a month isn’t much to you, but it means the world to me. I’d love for you to consider it it’s at patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcastIn this episode I speak with Caroline Ingraham who does something completely amazing it’s called zoopharmacognosy, so what is that? Caroline will explain it much more eloquently than me but for now let me just say that it is something that is in the dna of all animals, domestic or otherwise and it is the ability for them to heal themselves through offering them plant extracts that would contain the same or similar constituents to those found in an animals natural environment.This kind of work amazes me as this is how I believe we can make a huge difference in the lives of our horses, we just need to know how. This is a conversation not only about horses but also about a baby elephant Caroline was flown from the UK to help, and the way she helped was beautiful and the elephant made a full recovery. So grab a cuppa enjoy the drive to your horses or wherever you are going or whatever you are doing and enjoy the amazing Caroline IngrahamTo connect with Caroline please follow the links belowwebsite https://www.carolineingraham.com/courses www.carolineinraham.com/coursesshop remedies www.carolineingraham.com/botanicsbooks www.carolineingraham.com/booksFacebook www.facebook.com/zoopharmacognosyemail info@carolineingraham.com

Would you like to support this podcast? I'd love you to consider becoming a Patreon member and subscriber. Just $5 a month can make a huge difference and will bring the podcast back to regular weekly episodes.We have 2 small business patrons who I'd love you to check out.Peter Papp from Peter and the HerdFacebookInstagramAlso remember to check out Belinda Daws from Journey Equine at herWebsiteFacebookInstagramTwitterYou can sign up to be a patron at www.patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcastYou can also see the amazing rage of products I have available for sale on my website at www.edenriverequestrian.comIn this special episode I speak with Hannah and Rachel about their new book Connection Training The Heart and Science for Positive Reinforcement Training.This book is not simply another horse book. This is, I believe, a text book that is essential reading for all horse owners, even the ones who do not believe in positive reinforcement. A lot of you may believe in affirmative training, but not the use of treats, that’s ok, there is still so much for you to learn from this book. And if you still use negative reinforcement, then you really need to listen to this podcast and then get to amazon and purchase the book.This has the science behind how horses learn. It speaks about calming signals. Rachel spent time presenting with Rachel Draisma on Calming Signals, she has spent many years researching the best possible way to train horses, and her daughter Hanna has spent the time taking the research to the horses and putting it into practice and making it fun for both horses and humans.The book is full of pictures and practical things you can take to your horses right now. It’s not the kind of book you read and put down and wonder what to do next. It has step by step guides and plenty of video resources and also a club you can join at the end if you feel you need more support.Let’s get into this interview, it’s not surprisingly, a long one. I read this book and had a lot of questions, but I also wanted to give you a good feel for what you are getting in this book and why it’s a must read.To buy the book go to www.amazon.comYou can connect with Rachel and Hannah hereWebsiteFacebookInstagramYouTube

Thanks to our new Patrons this month. Amanda Phillips, Liz Ehrich and Peter Papp, you guys rock!Peter Papp can be found through his handle Peter and the Herd onFacebookInstagramAlso remember to check out Belinda Daws from Journey Equine at herWebsiteFacebookInstagramTwitterYou can sign up to be a patron at www.patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcastYou can also see the amazing rage of products I have available for sale on my website at www.edenriverequestrian.comIn this episode I speak with Antoinette Foster from HiForm Australia. Antoinette is an equine nutritional therapist, medical herbalist, and also does nutritional therapy genetics as well as so many other things.In this interview we speak of why nutrition is so important for your horse and also for you and me. Antoinette busts some myths about Lucerne and fermented hay as well as gives us some really great foundations to understand when choosing feed for our horses.Antoinette and I could have talked for days on so many topics such is her wealth of knowledge, if there is something specific you’d like her to cover, please let me know and I’ll definitely record it for you for a future episode.You can connect with Antoinette and her amazing team at theirWebsiteFacebookInstagramTwitter

It’s so great to be able to be back in your ears and bringing you a new episode!Before we do that though, it’s time to give a shout out to our amazing and fantastic Patrons who are an integral part of the Come Along for the Ride Family.A massive thank you to Amy Lopez and Belinda Daws.Now Belinda is someone that I need to tell you more about. She has signed on as a patron for the shout out and link. Belinda is a certified connection training coach, she has trained with Hannah Western, Rachel Bedingfield and Shawna Karrasch. Her business is called Journey Equine, Positive Horse Training and Coaching.Belinda has come into the Come Along for the Ride family at just the perfect time. It was at the very same time that I was looking for a coach. Belinda lives on the Gold Coast so she is close enough to be able to travel to me. Belinda also works with clients online so she can support you wherever you are in the world.We have had our first coaching session and I found Belinda to be calm, and able to see the tiny nuances that you need to be able to get clicker training right. She worked beautifully with me and my horses. I loved that she did not want to rush through training and push the horses or me, we did a little and then left it right at the perfect spot. If she had an ego she would have wanted to go a little bit further, and that folks, is where the problems happen in training, in my opinion.So, not only do I recommend Belinda as she is a Patreon subscriber to the podcast, I personally recommend her.You can find Belinda at www.journeyequine.com.If you would like to become a subscriber to the podcast and help us get back to weekly episodes to be able to bring you more amazing content on a more regular basis, then please head on over to Patreon and subscribe www.patreon.com/comealongfortheride . For less than 2 cups of coffee a month, you can make a huge difference to this podcast and the horses we work hard to make a positive change to the lives of every day.Did you know I am looking for a business partner? If you are looking to join a business venture that makes the world a better place for horses and literally leaves the earth a better place than we found it, then please get in touch.In this episode I had the pleasure of speaking with Monty Gwynne from EquiSpeak. Monty teaches classical dressage through positive reinforcement, so she is a trainer after my own heart. The best way to introduce her is to read directly from her website, this is a quote from her home page.This quote is by Nuno Oliveira from 1961"I believe that there are two categories of equestrians, those who, while skilled, use the horse as a tool, and those who love him and allow him to express the brilliance of which he is capable.The former are not less expert than the latter. During dressage tests they may even triumph although never taking the risk of making a mistake when the opportunity to yield with the hand occurs and lightness presents itself. The latter always risk being the damned poets of this art. They are misunderstood by the masses of riders who cannot distinguish between the means used by the former or those of the latter.Only the latter enjoy the true pleasure of feeling how a creature cooperates without constraint, as a friend."It’s a bit special and a beautiful way to introduce the wonderful Monty Gwynne.To connect with Monty you can do so through these linkshttps://www.equispeak.com/contacthttps://www.youtube.com/user/d1fairyhttps://www.facebook.com/equispeak.positive.reinforcement.training/To connect more with our community here at Come Along for the Ride Podcast please follow one fo the links belowhttps://www.patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcasthttps://edenriverequestrian.com/https://www.facebook.com/CAFTRPodcast/https://www.facebook.com/groups/376101009782763/https://twitter.com/CAFTRPodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/comealongfortheride/

Well, I’m back from my break! It’s so great to be back in your ears, it feels amazing to have the headphones on again chatting to and connecting with you all once again.In this episode I want to let you know 4 things, so don’t stop early, wait until I get to the end or you may miss out on something important!Here are the links for the information in the podcastPatreon - https://www.patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast Please consider joining as a subscription member of the podcast. This will ensure that the podcast becomes, and stays, weekly once again. Check out the tier system, you get something at every level and believe me, every cent counts!Eden River Equestrian - www.edenriverequestrian.com the home of the podcast and where you can purchase some ethical, sustainable and organic goods for you and your horse.Anna Blake Tour - https://www.facebook.com/events/477436262818750/ Come and join us in Laceys Creek where we are hosting the amazing Anna Blake. She is conducting a ridden and in hand Calming Signals Clinic. It's going to be amazing. there are plenty of accommodation options for anyone interested.Business Partner - That's right, I'm looking for one! If you are interested in opening a conversation, if you are serious about becoming my business partner, then please email me at info@edenriverequestrian.com Would you like to join like-minded people in a Facebook Group? The pop on over to the Eden River Equestrian Facebook Group where you can chat about anything you like that you have seen or been wondering about.Join us onFacebookInstagramTwitter

This is a quick message to let you know that the podcast will be taking a short break. Due to health reasons and a need to stop and restore my own health and also spend more time with my horses. The podcast will be taking a break from now until July.This is a time for me to catch up with all my listeners in may ways. To spend the time working with my own horses who have not had the time due to my work schedule. To catch up with human people instead of working through the internet each day for connection. All of these things will go toward restoring my health and making me ready for the next phase of Eden River Equestrian.All online purchases will be filled during this time so feel free to browse my site any time.Thank you for your patience on this one. I know that you will all understand.Much love to you all and I'll be back on the podcast airwaves in July.

Today’s episode is brought to you by Eden River Equestrian, Australia’s fresh and new sustainable horse brand. We stock Borstiq brushes, hand-made in Sweden from sustainable hardwood and natural bristles. Go to edenriverequestrian.com to check them out.In this episode I speak with Peggy Hogan from Clicker Training Horses. Peggy has been around for a long time in the world of positive reinforcement and she has something amazing to teach us. As with so many trainers of this style she is open and willing to teach so much as she has seen positive reinforcement transform the horse human relationship time and time again.Peggy speaks with passion and a wonderful energy and has such an incredible wealth of knowledge. You are going to love her story.Grab a cuppa or enjoy the drive while listening to the wonderful Peggy Hogan.Here is a link to the video Peggy talks about with her mini responding to his recall https://youtu.be/Um4QZYaJH94To connect with Peggy follow the links below or go to my website to read more.Website - www.clickertraininghorses.com,Website 2 - www.thebestwhisperisaclick.com,Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ClickerTrainingHorses/Facebook Group - www.facebook.com/clickertraininghorsesInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/clickertraininghorses/Twitter - https://twitter.com/PeggyHoganYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/Peggasus09

In this episode I speak with Shawna Karrasch from the Terranova Training Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.I know I say this a lot, but you really are going to love this one!Shawna has an energy and zest for life that is infectious. She also shares with us the story of how she was one of first people in the world to use positive reinforcement training with horses. And of course she got to start right at the top with international show jumpers! She also got offered to spend time with Tom Dorrance, one of the creators of the natural horsemanship movement. She could literally have changed his world and the natural horsemanship movement, but I’ll let her tell you that story herself.It would be easy to think that Shawna might have a bit of ego at play with all of her years of extraordinary experience, but of course, she is true to this training movement and like all of the other trainers I have interviewed, she is great because of her lack of ego. She is on a mission, just as I am, to change the face of horsemanship the world over so this is yet another conversation of kindred spirits building the energy and education to bring consciousness to the horse world.To connect with Shawna, listen to her podcast or ask her questions please follow the links. Terranova Training Centre website, On-Target-Training website, or follow Shawna on Facebook Ask Shawna On-Target-Training, https://www.youtube.com/user/shawnakarrasch.

Today is the Day! I am so grateful to be able to bring you my new business Eden River EquestrianHave a listen to why I created this brand and how it is going to make the world a better place for horses.I'm so looking forward to creating this new vision for our community. And also to meet you all in person one day at one of our properties!

The Equine Behaviour Assessment and Research Questionnaire (E-BARQ)The Horse Behaviour Revolution - A gift to the horse.Today is the launch of E-BARQ. This is a worldwide collection of horse behaviour data.This episode is a chat with Kate Fenner who is heading up the research.We talk about why this study is so important and how this can help horse owners and horse training the world over.Please take the time to sign up for E-BARQ today. Be the change you want to see in the horse world!www.e-barq.comYou can also follow E-BARQ on Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/E-Barq-1234671723358064

This week’s episode is brought to you by Eden River Equestrian. Soon to be Australia’s, and then eventually maybe even the world’s leading sustainable horse brand. I can tell you I am racing to meet you at the starting line for this launch. I’m so excited to bring this to the world and share it with you all.In this episode I speak with Emily from Elsam Equestrian Solutions. Emily has Cedric who is a horse riding simulator. What does a mechanical horse have in common with being a conscious horse person? Well let me tell you this is an amazing tool to take the pressure off you and your horse when it comes to riding. If you have something that you would like to check for sure about your riding, or to gain more confidence, or just improve your balance and specifics in your riding then a horse riding simulator can definitely help. It does not replace your riding coach, it compliments and support the work you are already doing with your coach.Emily is here in Queensland but you can find these all over the world.Have a listen to how this incredible machine can assist and support us in our riding. And in the background, the whinnying horse is Cedric!To connect with Emily you can go to her website https://elsamequestriansolutions.com/

This episode is brought to you by Eden River Equestrian, soon to be Australia’s leading sustainable horse brand. In just 2 weeks’ time on the 1st May I will be launching phase 2 of my dream. To bring consciousness on every level to the horse world through organic and sustainable products, information and community.Eden River Equestrian will be the new home for this podcast so stay tuned for the new website and social media handles that we will transition to in May, hopefully smoothly!In today’s episode I speak with Rachaël Draaisma. Rachaël is the incredible woman who brought us the book on Language Signs and Calming Signals for Horses. Today she tells her story of her teachers and mentors and how she came to write the book. We find out how she went about researching for her book and how long it took her to find what she was hoping for.Rachaël also has some new and very interesting research and training that she is undertaking with horses and scent tracking. It’s incredible to hear what she has been able to do so far.Grab a cuppa and enjoy every minute of hearing from the woman who has inspired so many of the trainers I have interviewed so far on this podcast.To connect with Rachaël you can do so in the links below.Website www.calmingsignalsofhorses.comFacebook https://www.facebook.com/Calming-Signals-of-Horses-1253419824725141/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyu9-AB_1909eOfXbiCF6Mg

In this episode I speak with Paul McGreevy Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science. If you’ve ever had a difficult conversation with traditional horse people and you’ve wondered how your training methods and beliefs can be backed up by science, then listeners, this is the podcast for you!Paul has spent 23 years scientifically researching horse behaviour and welfare in both the UK and Australia. He has published 250 peer reviewed papers as well as books on equine and dog behaviour and he is the co-founder and honorary fellow of the International Society for Equitation Science.He also talks in this interview of his 8 weeks trek on horseback from Victoria to Canberra. So he is not a desk bound scientist, he is a real horseman who has a passion for equitation science and debunking myths that are out there around some methods of training.I believe it’s important for us as conscious horse people to keep up to date with this kind of science so we can have real conversations with people who think we are all a bit woo woo in our methods. Paul tell me where and how we can access this information and also how we can be a part of the new study they are doing where they are collecting data from all over the world that will help revolutionise horse training the world over.To connect with Paul you can follow the link belowWebsite http://sydney.edu.au/vetscience/about/staff/pmcgreevy.shtmlHere are links to some of the research papers we spoke about in the interviewFood reward and pressure and releasehttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/233588289_The_use_of_blended_positive_and_negative_reinforcement_in_shaping_the_halt_response_of_horses_Equus_caballusTrigger Treater:https://www.triggertreater.com/Cath Evans work with shape of head in dogshttps://www.researchgate.net/.../6436933_The_Distribution_of_Ganglion_Cells_in_the_...Donkey v horse brainhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/331083791_Preliminary_investigation_into_relationships_between_donkey_and_horse_skull_and_brain_morphologyPaul's equine behaviour bookhttps://www.elsevier.com/books/equine-behavior/mcgreevy/978-0-7020-4337-6ISES, conference links on position statementhttps://equitationscience.com/equitation/position-statement-on-the-use-misuse-of-leadership-and-dominance-concepts-in-horse-trainingHere are some other research papers of Paul's that you might like to readMcGreevy, P, Boakes, R. (2019) The shocking use of ‘jiggers’ in horse racing. The Conversation. 15th February 2019. https://theconversation.com/the-shocking-use-of-jiggers-in-horse-racing-111176McGreevy, P., Henshall, C. (2018) Dressing up for Melbourne Cup Day, from a racehorse point of view.The Conversation November 4, 2018 https://theconversation.com/dressing-up-for-melbourne-cup-day-from-a-racehorse-point-of-view-104771McGreevy, P.D., Franklin, S. (2018) Over 20% of Australian horses race with their tongues tied to their lower jaw. The Conversation. 9th July 2018. https://theconversation.com/over-20-of-australian-horses-race-with-their-tongues-tied-to-their-lower-jaw-99584McGreevy, P.D., Fawcett, A. (2018) Poll says most people support a ban on whips in Australian horse racing. The Conversation. February 22, 2018. https://theconversation.com/poll-says-most-people-support-a-ban-on-whips-in-australian-horse-racing-91917McGreevy, P.D., McManus, P. (2017) Why horse-racing in Australia needs a social licence to operate.The Conversation. November 3, 2017. https://theconversation.com/why-horse-racing-in-australia-needs-a-social-licence-to-operate-79492McManus, P., McGreevy, P.D. (2017) When the pressure is on, some riders breach the whip rules in horse racing. The Conversation. January 17, 2017. https://theconversation.com/when-the-pressure-is-on-some-riders-breach-the-whip-rules-in-horse-racing-71157McGreevy, P.D. (2016) Why nosebands should be loosened on dressage horses at the Olympics. The Conversation. May 10, 2016. https://theconversation.com/why-nosebands-should-be-loosened-on-dressage-horses-at-the-olympics-56370McGreevy, P.D. (2015) How to feed a racehorse and keep him healthy. The Conversation. November 3, 2015. https://theconversation.com/how-to-feed-a-racehorse-and-keep-him-healthy-49595McGreevy, P.D. (2014) Whips hurt horses – if my leg’s anything to go by. The Conversation. October 29, 2014. https://theconversation.com/whips-hurt-horses-if-my-legs-anything-to-go-by-33470