Harris Horses - horse riding holidays, SW France

07/11/2025

1980, how the jumps have changed! All those Whitney blankets in the collecting ring!

06/11/2025

06/11/2025

🌟🏆 Equistars 2025 – Horse of the Year 🏆🌟

Power. Precision. Pure brilliance. ✨
Our next nominee has become a true icon of Belgian showjumping — the one and only Ermitage Kalone! 🐎🔥

Together with Gilles Thomas, this phenomenal stallion has delivered one unforgettable performance after another:
🥉 Individual Bronze Medal – European Championships
🥇 Team Gold Medal – European Championships
🏆 A key force behind Gilles Thomas' LGCT Championship title this season!

Whether flying solo or lifting the team to greatness, Ermitage Kalone continues to prove why he’s one of the most extraordinary horses of his generation. 💫

From November 15th until December 20th, 2025, you can make your voice heard:
🗳️ Vote for Ermitage Kalone as your Equistars 2025 Horse of the Year, to be honoured at the spectacular Equigala 2026! ✨

27/07/2025

Self carriage for horse AND rider with Carl Hester: “Common sense tells us that if something needs to be supple, it can’t be in the same position all the time. Stretch the horse… Suppleness and stretching take years to get.”
https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2020/09/carl-hester-on-self-carriage-for-both-horse-and-rider/

22/07/2025

Love Scott Brash's dual silver medal winning mare Hello Folie ? Well meet her FULL BROTHER the GFE Groupe France Élevage stallion "Candy De Nantuel" (Luidam ex Diamant De Semilly).

All 7 stallions in the first three generations of Candy De Nantuel's pedigree have jumped to Grand Prix level, and his dam & both of his grand-dams also great careers up to 1.40m level. At circa 54% blood, he is also one to consider for event horse breeders aswell.

Candy Nantuel received a fabulous 19/20 at his licensing, and won the Selle Francais Stallion Masters early in 2017. In his first season at stud he was the 4th most used stallion in France in 2016 - just behind his damsire Diamant de Semilly.

In 2017 he was the winner of the Selle Francais Stallion Masters for 5 year olds.

His Grand Prix successes include 2nd in the CSI3* in Dinard, 5th in the CSI3* in Saint-Tropez, 2nd 1.50m ranking class, 5th CSI4* in Fontainebleau, 6th CSI3* in Valence, 2nd in the 1.55m CSI5* in Paris Eiffel, 4th 1.55m class CSI4* in Chantilly, twice winner of 1.50m classes CSI3* in Compiègne and Saint-Tropez and winner in the 1.45m class CSI3* in Saint-Tropez.

Clearly he and his full sister deserve their attention in the equestrian media at the moment and we cant help but notice how similar they are to the eye.

www.insightsmagazine.co.uk

22/07/2025

Hello Folie as a young horse starting her career in France.

19/07/2025

19/07/2025

We are delighted to confirm the final standings for the British squad after today’s final which means we also have four athletes who finished inside the top 25 and have therefore qualified for the individual final:

🌟 2nd = Scott Brash and Hello Folie (1.08)
🌟 8th = Ben Maher and Dallas Vegas Batilly (2.35)
🌟 16th = Jessica Mendoza and In The Air (4.55)
🌟 18th = Donald Whitaker and Millfield Colette (4.67)

Tomorrow is a rest day, before the hunt for individual medals continues on Sunday in the final showdown of the Longines FEl Jumping European Championship 2025. We’ll share a full round-up of the day shortly.

18/07/2025

It’s team silver for Great Britain at the Longines FEI Jumping European Championship!

Under Performance Manager Di Lampard, the fabulous foursome of Scott Brash and Hello Folie, Ben Maher and Dallas Vegas Batilly, Matt Sampson and Medoc de Toxandria and Donald Whitaker and Millfield Colette have fought hard all week to secure this brilliant result

Gold went to Belgium on 5.61, silver to Great Britain on 7.96 and bronze to Germany on 8.19

📸 Jon Stroud / British Equestrian

18/07/2025

🐎Trigger warning 🐎
The horse that this bean belonged to, was due to be PTS. The owner had heard of beans but was told my a number of people to ‘leave well alone’ and ‘don’t be like these silly women, obsessed with cleaning horses willies’.

This horses behavioural issues had become so horrendous and every check had been done and nothing could be found. The owner of this horse absolutely thought she was doing the kind thing for a miserable horse, that barely wanted to walk without a rider on, no chance anyone could get on him anymore. He was sad and unhappy and you could see it in his face.
Thankfully her friend was having us out the next week and told her, what has she got to lose but a few quid.

We felt this bean immediately, and the horse knew exactly what we were trying to do. Within less than a minute, this bean was out and you could see an immediate change in the horse. So much so it brought a tear to our eyes.

You can laugh, you can think us sheath cleaners are silly, but at least get your horse checked for beans if you never have. In this case it was literally life or death.

Horse is now very happy and back to his old self 🤍

And before anyone says anything about being a bad horse owner, please understand that some people are made to feel utterly stupid by others for believing that beans are real. Because surprisingly some think they are a myth 😂