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05/01/2025

Apparently I am about to be struck off my page, and it be deleted. I have very little understanding how this works, but as I rarely post, and don't make comments or likes on that many of other people's posts, I am slightly bewildered what I have done to attract the ire of the meta 'gods'

29/07/2024

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Broads Equestrian Centre 2024

01/03/2024
01/03/2024

1913 when the Sealyham terrier was still known as a working or hunt terrier and had diversity in its conformation. Sealyham's tended to being smaller than fox terriers, and tended to have a little more bone, giving them the look of many working white terriers today.

Interesting to note, and mentioned in a couple sources during the 1800's, was Captain John Edwardes terriers were bred to Russell's Devonshire type fox terriers, and a Fox Terrier bitch coming from Russell was breed to a Sealyham of unknown origin, which is possibly one influence or source for the small white hunt terrier which would become popular for being carried on horseback. we'll never know, but one thing is certain and that is they were all known for their gameness, until they became recognized by the kennel club and the show bench started dominating the breeding practises.

05/12/2023
Amazing woman!
07/11/2023

Amazing woman!

When Jane Dotchin arrived back at her Hexham home at the end of October it marked exactly 50 years of long distance journeys by horse because she started riding from Northumberland to the North of Scotland and back in 1973.

Well done Jane, Dinky the dog and Diamond - 2023 was a wet one but even well into your 80s you never let rain deter you - you are an inspiration to riders everywhere 🐴 ❤️

The British Horse Society

12/06/2023
27/05/2023

The Saturday ‘guest slot’ is a 5-minute read. An opinion piece from a diverse range within the wider world of natural hunting. Hounds, lurchers, terriers, falcons, ferrets, ‘natural hunting’, rural politics, culture, ritual, tradition, minority rights, anthropology, science, wildlife management. All feature as elements of our entire way of life at its unashamedly raw core. This week Charlie Pye Smith, a freelance writer, specialising in issues related to the environment, conservation, agriculture and development writes about Hunting in the Age of Unreason.

I am quite happy to receive a lecture on how to take penalties, recite Shakespeare, cook an omelette and punch somebody in the mouth from Gary Lineker, Judi Dench, Delia Smith and Frank Bruno respectively. But there is no reason why we should listen to them when they campaign against trophy hunting, about which they know little or nothing. Unfortunately, our politicians are all too easily swayed by emotive virtue-signalling, the standard currency of many celebrities, and in March 2023 the House of Commons passed a bill to ban the importation of hunting trophies such as hides, heads and tusks.

I spent several weeks in southern Africa during the late 1990s talking to local communities and conservationists about the benefits of well-regulated trophy hunting. In the deeply impoverished part of Zimbabwe where I spent most my time, profits from hunting had enabled villagers to build classrooms and health clinics, hire teachers and nurses and established income-generating projects. Instead of seeing elephant, buffalo and lion as a threat to their survival and killing them, as they did in the days before they benefited from the fees generating by trophy hunting, they were now protecting them.

Amy Dickman, director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at Oxford University, and Adam Hart, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Gloucestershire, both of whom have long experience of working with wildlife and communities in Africa, analysed 118 statements made by MPs during the second reading of the Trophy Hunting (Importation Prohibition) Bill. They found that 85 were either false or misleading. These included all nine statements made by Sir Roger Gale and 29 out of the 37 statements made by the bill’s proposer, Henry Smith.
Clearly, neither the celebrities nor the MPs in favour of an import ban took any notice of a letter to Science magazine signed by over 100 scientists and researchers entitled “Conservationists should support trophy hunting”. Or an open letter from over 50 community leaders in Africa urging celebrities in the UK to stop “undermining the human rights of impoverished people and jeopardising conservation in the region”. Or the pleas not to introduce a ban from several governments in Southern Africa.

You could argue that the bill won’t have much effect as far as this country is concerned, as British trophy hunters are relatively few in number. But the failure of politicians to rigorously scrutinise and examine the available evidence is something we should be deeply worried about. The passage of the Trophy Hunting Bill was a triumph of ignorance over science and good sense. The same could be said for the 2004 Hunting Act, which severely curtailed hunting in England and Wales, and the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill, which was passed by the devolved administration in Edinburgh in January 2023.

Tribe and Prejudice

In Rural Rites, published some 18 months after the 2004 Hunting Act became law, I predicted that instead of improving animal welfare it would almost certainly have the opposite effect. Astonishingly, neither the organisations which represent hunting nor the organisations which spent an estimated ÂŁ30 million on campaigning for a ban have commissioned studies to assess the impact of the legislation on wild animal welfare. That is why I teamed up with Jim Barrington, former director of the League Against Cruel Sports and now animal welfare advisor to the Countryside Alliance, to explore how the Act and its equivalent in Scotland have affected fox, brown hare and red deer.

You will be able to read about our findings when Rural Wrongs is published this summer. Suffice it say here that the legislation has made matters worse for the formerly hunted species.

To understand the problems with the Hunting Act you need to look at why MPs voted for it in the first place. For a significant number, especially on the Left, it was class, rather than a concern for animal welfare, that motivated their support for a ban. “I was proud to vote for the Hunting Act in 2004 to prevent the brutal killing of foxes to satisfy the bloodlust of a few brainless toffs,” wrote John (now Baron) Prescott, former Labour Deputy Prime Minister, ignoring the fact that over 400,000 people joined the Liberty and Livelihoods March in defence of hunting in London in 2002. Prescott and his fellow travellers saw themselves at the tribunes elected by the plebs to vanquish the toffs. That was what really mattered to them – not animal welfare.

Then there was the cash. Many MPs promised their constituency parties that they would vote for a ban in return for financial support provided by organisations like the League. Besides, the Political Animal Lobby gave the Labour Party £1 million prior to the 1997 general election – an important inducement to deal with the subject once and for all. All of this means that a significant number of MPs were not swayed by the evidence of, for example, the Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales, but by cash and prejudice.

Little wonder the legislation was such a mess. As Daniel Greenberg, a senior parliamentary draughtsman and barrister involved in drafting the Hunting Act, has pointed out, the “clearest proof that this was never a measure aimed at improving animal welfare is that nothing in the construction of the legislation tends towards its effective enforceability as a matter of animal welfare.”

The problem with polls

Politicians were undoubtedly influenced by opinion polls. You might argue: well, MPs should reflect the views of the public, so that’s a good thing. But there is a problem with this. The majority of those asked by pollsters whether they were in favour of a ban will have had little or no idea about the complexities of wildlife management, or the possible consequences of a ban. And why should they have? There are dozens of important subjects about which I have no knowledge at all.

Talking of which, I can think of my attitude towards hare coursing when I was growing up in Yorkshire. Every year, at the time of the Waterloo Cup, TV news would show a clip of a couple of greyhounds killing a hare. It looked pretty gruesome, and if I’d been asked by a polling company whether it should be banned I would at least have thoughts about saying yes. But then I didn’t understand – as I do now – how coursing under National Coursing Club rules provided a huge boost to the conservation of the brown hare. Relatively few died for the good of a great many more.

The 2004 Hunting Act came into force on 18 February 2005. Over the next three days, 3000 hares were shot on two estates in East Anglia. It would have taken legal coursing almost 20 years to kill as many hares if it had been allowed to continue. The hares on these two estates weren’t shot to provide game for the table, although they did that too, but to deter gangs of illegal poachers from invading the land. If ever there was an example of the unintended consequences of bad law – the subtitle of Rural Wrongs – this was it.

If there is a message in the book for MPs, it is this: do your research properly, suppress your prejudices, look at every side of the argument, ignore opinion polls and treat with suspicion any individual or organisation who is frothing at the mouth with anger and resentment. A pious hope? Judging from what happened recently in Westminster and Edinburgh, with the Trophy Hunting (Importation Prohibition) Bill and the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill, I’m afraid it might be.

20/04/2023

With Badminton on our minds...The Late Queen inspecting The Duke of Beaufort's Hounds at Badminton Horse Trials in 1973. Pictured with The Queen are some of the Royal children - (from L-R) Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, Price Edward, Viscount Linley & behind him Prince Andrew.
Hounds have been kennelled at Badminton since 1640 & The Beaufort Hounds are famous for their conformation- in particular their size & quality.
The Dukes of Beaufort have either hunted hounds themselves or have been in the Mastership since the title was created in 1682 & the hounds, kennels & iconic stables still belong to them.

20/04/2023

We Have spaces available for working livery horses
We are looking for lead-rein ponies, first ridden ponies, family cobs, and which are schooled to a basic level of walk, trot, and canter. We want calm, sensible, and safe ponies 13 hands high or taller, and 7 years old or older.
Costs for working livery range from- no livery charge but owner pays for farrier, dentist etc ranging up to ÂŁ65 per week (depending on available use of your horse)
We are a friendly, calm, and happy family-run riding school and livery yard based on 35 acres in Northowram, Halifax. Fully insured, licensed, and BHS approved, horses are our passion; from our retired school ponies and children's lesson ponies, to the more competitive riding horse. We aim to always deliver kind, individual care, and take pride in our riding school ponies being regularly washed, groomed, and trimmed, wearing comfortable tack through their daily work. In our riding school, we do not only focus on the rider's mental and physical needs, but pay close attention to those of our horses too, ensuring we find the best suited riders for each individual horse.
The Exercise
- Provides additional training
- Regular Holidays
- Relaxation Time through the day
- Breaks between lessons
- Personalised Workload
- 2 Days off per Week
- No more than 1 hour continuous work
What else we offer:
- Personalised care plans catered to your horse's physical and psychological needs
- Management of farrier, dentist, and worming organisation
- Year-round, daily turn out in suited friendship groups
- Monthly tack fit checks and weekly tack cleaning
- Use of all facilities such as heated horse shower and two floodlit outdoor arenas (35metres x 20m and 50m x 30m)
- Grazing, watering, and feeding
- Grooming before use in lessons
- Basic daily care
- CCTV and 24 hour on-site supervision
- Welcoming, child-friendly yard
Please contact us with any enquiries, and you can call us to arrange a visit to come see the yard and meet our team

16/04/2023

“The British countryside is not a natural one. Our rich heritage of fauna and flora has survived better than in any other European country because of the dedication of generations of farmers, country people and sportsmen. Hunting has played a central role in this process. The woods, spinneys, fields, hedges, walls, lakes, ponds and moors were fashioned and are preserved by the pattern of country sports. It is in the interests of the field sportsman to maintain the woodland habitat.” Brian Fanshawe, Baily’s Hunting Companion 1994.

16/04/2023
23/03/2023

2 Part time positions available

1 Qualified coach
1 experienced coach or someone with basic coaching experience (Further training available)
Wage dependant of individuals age and experience
From minimum wage up to ÂŁ15ph

Our Coaching Hours are 3pm-7pm weekdays, or 10am- 4pm weekends
Other yard hours are available on request.
Please note, a DBS check will be required for this role.
A bit about us
The culture at The Laura Brennan Equestrian Centre is built on our shared core values:
FAMILY: We encourage honesty and have an open-door policy for all to give their concerns, ideas and thoughts genuine weight. We show gratitude and celebrate each other.
INTEGRITY: How we behave when no one is watching. We consistently adhere to moral and ethical principles; Soundness of moral character; Honesty.
PASSION: For the respect, care and education of the animals, each other, and our clients.
WELLBEING: We take responsibility for our own wellbeing both physically and psychologically. We are grounded in the present moment.
GRIT: We show courage and resolve; strength of character; resilience. Discipline.
EDUCATION: We are constantly learning and growing. Always self-aware and striving to improve.

We are looking for people who resonate with these values, so if this is you, please Email [email protected].
Based at: Laura Brennan Equestrian Centre Ltd, Northowram, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Good Luck in your Application, we look forwards to speaking with you.

The boy grows
31/07/2022

The boy grows

Peace. After the digging
04/06/2022

Peace. After the digging

04/06/2022

Farthing getting a digging lesson from great grandpa

Bees really enjoying these alliums   #
29/05/2022

Bees really enjoying these alliums #

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