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Julie Taylor
Mar 19, 20186 min read
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
Mar 27, 20175 min read
Ugly motives
For a few days I have been pondering the meaning of the word “motivation” and the way it is used by horse people. In our latest video...
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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
Feb 5, 20166 min read
The bare necessities
Have you ever done something you didn't want to do because your riding instructor told you to do it, while your conscience told you...
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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
Nov 26, 201411 min read
The butterfly effect
I am glad I brought my wellingtons as I walk up the hill towards the meadow where Tulla, Luca, Jack and Buddy live. It's a bright...
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Julie Taylor
Oct 9, 201414 min read
Round and round we go
One of the best things about writing the blog posts on Epona.tv is the feedback I get. Both the positive and the negative. The post on...
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Julie Taylor
May 19, 20144 min read
The gold standard
I spent today in the Gredos mountains in Spain, following a small band of feral Pottoka ponies together with a couple of ethology...
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Julie Taylor
Jan 31, 20146 min read
Objects of desire
”Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” So goes a famous quote by the feminist writer and editor, Marie Shear. What it...
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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
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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Julie Taylor
Dec 16, 20123 min read
Let's see you do better
Whenever horse welfare is called into question, those who do the asking are met with the counter claim: ”Have you ever ridden a Grand...
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