08/06/2024
EDIT: Please do feel free to share/replicate/display this sign - I’d rather it went out into the world to be used freely and help horses far and wide than if it was just kept on social media!
I seem to spend a lot of time thinking about the ethics of horse sport, and whether we, as an industry, will be able to keep our social licence to operate.
Although we won’t get it right 100% of the time, I think the intent and knowledge behind our actions is a key part of the puzzle.
I have put this sign up on the gate of my arena, in the hope that it reminds me, all my clients and other users of the facilities to stop and think about our intent before embarking upon working our horses each day.
What do you think?
Photo: HDE ‘Promise to the Horse’.