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Zobel Equestrian specialises in starting & handling horses and ponies.I am a compassionate and intuitive horse trainer who has a unique gift for understanding horses.

26/06/2025

The beautiful Castletown Balladeer Stallion coming back into work first ride back and is ready as ever 😍 🤍🖤
Castletown Heavy Horses

3 stunning boys in training 😍All beautiful black & white colouring 🤍🖤🐴Blitz 3yr old Drum Stallion Castletown Heavy Horse...
26/06/2025

3 stunning boys in training 😍
All beautiful black & white colouring 🤍🖤
🐴Blitz 3yr old Drum Stallion Castletown Heavy Horses
🐴 Pogo 3yr Gypsy Cob (Maybelline Khoo)
🐴Lockie 3yr old WB (Alexx Mudd)

Castletown Equestrian Centre have Full Board spots coming in 2 weeks! Message them to come look at this amazing property...
19/06/2025

Castletown Equestrian Centre have Full Board spots coming in 2 weeks! Message them to come look at this amazing property 💗🌸

Full board agistment place available in 2 weeks
Available for viewings now
Located 5 minutes from Serpentine pony club
Brand new facilities
70x30 kamco arena
Tackshed
Wash bay
Private paddock with shelter and horse safe electric fencing
Hard feeds & hay supplied
50 acres with trail riding available
Friendly and relaxed environment
On property instructor and trainer
Pm for details

📣Cancellation 📣BOOK IN NOWI've had a cancellation, book in now to fill the spot! When it's cold wet and wild, when you d...
15/06/2025

📣Cancellation 📣
BOOK IN NOW
I've had a cancellation, book in now to fill the spot!

When it's cold wet and wild, when you don't have the motivation to ride it's the perfect time to send your horse off for training so they are ready to tackle summer again 💪
🐴Training/Starting
🐴Re-Education (Lower price for OTT)
🐴Bringing back into work
🐴Handling/Groundwork
🐴 1 on 1 Lessons

04/06/2025

UPDATE!
This is Duque an Andalusian gelding💚
I started him under saddle 2 years ago now!
He now is being ridden 5 times a week, growing and learning with his owner. Learning new things in flatwork in the arena and going cantering out on trails!

Fia had her first outing over the long weekend at a clinic in Capel.We braved the weather and had a little ride and alth...
04/06/2025

Fia had her first outing over the long weekend at a clinic in Capel.
We braved the weather and had a little ride and although new environments can be scary, she was so well behaved!

Even after your horse has come to me for training I'm always available for ongoing help afterwards as it takes a team to build a horses character 🐴🌸❤️

23/05/2025
Fia's owner having her first ride on her beautiful horse🐴Fia is a Irish Sport Horse and is going to be a Para Dressage h...
22/05/2025

Fia's owner having her first ride on her beautiful horse🐴
Fia is a Irish Sport Horse and is going to be a Para Dressage horse!
She definitely has the right, quiet temperament for it!
Michèle only came down to watch a riding session and saw how calm and sensible Fia is and very bravely hopped on for a little walk around! 😊🌸👏

So rewarding seeing owners having their first ride, makes it all worth the big job it is to make these babies safe💗

Bear 🐻 giving his owner her first ride! He will be ready to go home next week and blossom at his new home OTT 🏡 🌸
16/05/2025

Bear 🐻 giving his owner her first ride!
He will be ready to go home next week and blossom at his new home OTT 🏡 🌸

15/05/2025

Galloping, Bucking, Not Broken: The Greatest Lie Horses Ever Told 🐎💥

You step into the paddock, coffee in hand, expecting a peaceful morning and a whiff of horse breath that says “all is well.” ☕✨

Instead, your horse is on the wrong side of the fence, looking smug and oddly unscathed—or worse, still tangled in wire. You cut them free, patch up a scratch or two (or marvel at the miraculous absence of any), and thank the gods of lucky escapes.

Crisis averted.

Or is it? 😬

Here’s the problem: the real damage doesn’t always bleed.

Over the years, I’ve met a string of horses who’ve all survived this advanced-level self-sabotage. They’ve jumped a gate (well… tried), crashed through a fence, slipped on a slope, flipped, twisted, crushed or compressed themselves in ways that would make a chiropractor cry and a vet sigh while reaching for the X-ray machine (which, by the way, won’t show the damage either). 🏅💀

The horse recovers. No visible limp. They run. They buck. They play.

You think:
“They’re fine! Look at them go!”
But they’re not fine. Not even a little bit.

Enter: The Invisible Injury 🕵️‍♀️

What you can’t see—and what many professionals miss—is the slow-burn catastrophe hidden deep in the horse's body.

Ribcage. Pelvis. Sternum. Neck. Stifle.
The kind of stuff that doesn’t light up on X-rays or respond to your carrot-stick-wiggly-wand of trust. 🥕🌀

It’s the kind of discomfort that turns “walk, trot, canter” into “grimace, flinch, explode.”

And here’s the kicker: the horse doesn’t limp. It compensates.

Because horses, unlike people, don’t throw dramatic tantrums and demand cortisone shots. They quietly adjust. They twist, tighten, avoid, or overuse other parts of their body to keep going.

They are the masters of stoicism.....until you put a halter on.
You ask for a transition, a bend, a float trip, or—God forbid—a trot circle. And suddenly—

You get emotion.
You get resistance.
You get confusion, agitation, blow-ups, shut-downs—
Every spicy ingredient in a full-blown training meltdown stew. 🍲🔥
The Spiral Begins 🌀

The owner thinks: “I’m doing something wrong.”
The trainer thinks: “We need more groundwork.”
The horse thinks: “Kill me.” ☠️
Eventually, the owner moves on—new trainer, new method, new online course promising the horse will “choose joy and connection.”

But the problems persist.
Cue spiralling shame, rejection of all prior knowledge, and a desperate descent into rabbit holes of essential oils, a connection-based enlightenment facilitator, and equine shadow work. 🧘‍♀️🌿🔮

When in fact, what they really needed was a bloody good vet and bodyworker, and someone to say:

“Hey, maybe your horse’s inability to pick up the left lead can’t be fixed with trust exercises and lavender oil.”

The Warning Signs We Miss 🚩

Here are the red flags waving harder than a liberty trainer at sunset:

The horse becomes emotional, reactive, or weirdly robotic.
What should be simple feels charged, unpredictable, and unnervingly fragile.
Training progress flatlines, no matter how much effort you throw at it.
The horse starts avoiding halters, floats, mounting blocks—or life in general.
The problem isn’t always psychological.

Sometimes, it’s a bloody rib.
Or a pelvis rotated like a cheap IKEA table leg. 🪑

But we don’t look there—because the horse looks fine.
It bucks in the paddock! It gallops!
It must be okay!

Nope. That’s not health.
That’s compensation.
It’s adaptation with the odd short step.

Or worse—when they can’t limp because everything’s uncomfortable.
That’s when it gets really insidious.

What Happens Next is Predictable… and Sad 😢

These horses often get labelled as:

Difficult
Shut down
Disrespectful
“Needing more wet saddle blankets”
Or… “Needing a softer approach”
Or… “Not aligned with your energy” 🙃
No one considers the simple truth:

It hurts to do what we’re asking.
Not in a “don’t feel like it” way.
In a “my sternum’s fused to my shoulder blade and I can’t rotate left without seeing stars” way. 🌟

They suffer in silence while we rotate through training ideologies like a midlife crisis through motorcycles—all because we never asked the most obvious question:

“Has this horse ever had an accident?”

Because if they have—if they’ve failed to clear a gate, slipped, fallen, crushed, or tangled in wire—it may have changed everything. Not just the body, but the brain.

Pain messes with movement.
It makes easy things hard.
It turns willing horses into wary ones.
And it ruins good humans who start to believe they’re not good enough.

What You Can Do Instead of Losing Your Mind 🧠➡️🧘‍♂️

Take my good friend Tami Elkayam’s advice:
If something happens, write it down in a diary. ✍️

Even if they seem fine.

Then, if things start getting weird months or years later, don’t reach for your third liberty course or $800 worth of chamomile pellets. 💸🌼

Consider that maybe—just maybe—your horse isn’t emotionally broken, disrespectful, or traumatised by a training method.

Maybe those fractured ribs are hurting when you do up the girth.

Before You Burn It All Down… 🔥🚫

Before you give up, throw out your halters, block your last five coaches on Instagram, or trade your saddle for an oracle deck… pause.

Reflect.

Is it possible your horse is trying—but simply can’t?
Could it be that what they’re resisting isn’t you—but a physical reality no amount of groundwork or paddock bonding can fix?
Is it time to stop blaming yourself, your horse, and everyone you’ve ever learned from—and instead… dig deeper?
Because sometimes, the source of your training failures, your emotional spirals, and your eroded confidence…
..was a bloody gate.
That your horse didn’t clear.
That day. 🐴💔

If this switched on a lightbulb 💡, hit share. Pass it on.

Disclaimer: This is satire. Humour helps people read long posts they’d usually scroll past—so they don’t miss something that might actually help them or their horse.

Feel like tone-policing? Fabulous. Write your own post. That’s where your opinion belongs.

📸 IMAGE: My Aureo—the horse who taught me this lesson...even the bit about lavender oil 😆

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