Julie Taylor
The owners' circle
Last month, animal rights demonstrators gathered outside Gothenburg International Horse Show to protest. But they weren't protesting...
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Julie Taylor
Jul 27, 201711 min read
The Path of Most Resistance
The other night as the Farewell Falsterbo video was going viral, I was in my kitchen trying to make a vegan version of a classic, Danish...
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Julie Taylor
May 25, 20176 min read
Vetting the vets
In other sports, anti-doping is a matter of fairness to one's competitors. You dope, you cheat. In equestrian sport, there is a darker...
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Julie Taylor
May 22, 20176 min read
No pain, lots of gain
Yesterday, the 16-year-old KWPN gelding, Never Say Never jumped in the finals of the Danish Showjumping Championships. He even placed and...
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Julie Taylor
Mar 30, 20173 min read
Holding one's tongue
“If you want things to change, you have to stop being so aggressive.” “Be more polite if you want people to listen to you.” “I see what...
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Julie Taylor
May 10, 20163 min read
Flights of fancy
Why do we call horses flight animals? Even I say it and I have witnessed how decidedly unflighty free living horses are and how little...
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Julie Taylor
Oct 2, 20154 min read
Danish federation backs up FEI stewards in Falsterbo scandal
The Danish Equestrian Federation has finished its investigation of the controversial photos of Tørveslettens Stamina and Andreas...
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Julie Taylor
Aug 31, 20157 min read
Witch hunt
"Why do you always publish this type of pictures of Andreas Helgstrand?" That's a question we get sometimes and only one answer is...
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Julie Taylor
Aug 26, 20157 min read
UPDATED: Falsterbo moments
In July, the traditional Falsterbo International Horseshow took place as usual. These photos are of Tørveslettens Stamina who has...
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Julie Taylor
Aug 16, 20157 min read
Supply and demand
What passes for a good dressage horse today is far removed from what used to pass for a good dressage horse. In fact, I'm not even sure...
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Julie Taylor
Jan 22, 20156 min read
Scandal avoidance 101
They say you should never give advice because fools won't heed it and wise men don't need it. That is in itself a piece of advice and as...
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Julie Taylor
Dec 9, 201410 min read
Akeem Foldager time line
According to a press release issued by Andreas Helgstrand's lawyers, the Olympic medalist has been acquitted of animal cruelty in a court...
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Julie Taylor
Oct 23, 20145 min read
Arguing without arguments
Some horse folks still think you have to do research and construct logical arguments in order to take part in online discussions about...
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Julie Taylor
Oct 10, 20138 min read
Natural Inclinations
”Oh lets just turn all the horses loose and let them starve to death.” ”Or better yet, let's leave them in the tiniest mud hole we can...
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Julie Taylor
Aug 12, 20131 min read
Posadowo update: only 50 horses taken
The expectation of the volunteers we talked to on the first day of the Posodowo evacuation was that about a hundred horses would be...
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Julie Taylor
Aug 10, 20132 min read
Posadowa groom on factory farm of horror
The person behind the recordings from the allegedly Danish owned factory horse farm in Posadowa, Poland, was an employee at the farm. "I...
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Julie Taylor
Aug 10, 20131 min read
100 Posadowa horses taken away
Sources at the Posadowa factory farm say that lots of volunteers have shown up with trailers and lorries to take away about a hundred...
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Julie Taylor
Aug 9, 20133 min read
The dark side of performance breeding
The idea of breeding performance horses is to create a shining star to wow the world. If such a star is one in a million, then that begs...
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Julie Taylor
Jul 22, 20139 min read
Hateful minorities
”I agree that the net effect of hyperflexion is more to do with getting better submission of a ‘hot’ horse rather than achieving...
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Julie Taylor
Feb 2, 20136 min read
Obsoletely fabulous
The dressage judging is under attack. So what else is new? Judges are awarding points based on how they expect a combination to perform,...
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