Events for March and beyond

ADULTS TREC & Trail Fun Morning Trec – enjoy riding your horse through a variety of obstacles. Trail – a small trail ride through the bush alongside a scenic river. (The trail is a small pathway, participation on this will mean your horse needs to be calm and relaxed while out with other horses) Date: SATURDAY [...]

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Barefoot News

New Book by Pete Ramey Care and Rehabilitation of the Equine Foot Just in time for Christmas, Pete’s new book is going to the publisher as soon as the last two chapters are final. This book is everything any of us could have asked for, and much, much more!! A New 5xx Page Textbook with [...]

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Events Calender

If you have an event you’d like published for free, please send all the details as you’d like them to appear in an email via the contact page. Sharon May-Davis 3 day Anatomy Clinic (Dissection) A Deeper Understanding of the Horse – 23rd, 24th, 25th September 2011 Sharon May-Davis is a world renowned Equine Therapist [...]

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Finding that Friendship Spot

Last month I talked about being friends first with your horse and how ‘peer attachment’ is an important concept and part of the Friendship Training Program. “Mutual grooming is one of the most important acts for cementing the relationship between two horses …. It is an indicator of the strongest bond within an equine family [...]

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Barefoot News

Barefoot Endurance Success Deb Ryan and her horse Karisma, took out 1st Heavy Weight and Best Conditioned at the WA State Champs after 160kms all barefoot, no boots required. Belinda Taylor (ACEHP) started trimming Deb’s horses and says “Deb has been trimming Karisma herself since September last year and doing a fantastic job. She says that [...]

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Barefoot News

New Donkey Trimming DVD Pete Ramey have just released a new DVD set dedicated entirely to the hoof care of donkeys. You can read all about it at http://www.hoofrehab.com/DonkeyHoof.htm Laminitis Research DVD In the DVD Finding A Cure For Laminitis you’ll meet some of the current researchers funded by the animal health foundation and get [...]

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Barefoot News

Polytechnic Hoofcare course With the recent completion of the two week live-in block of this one year course, 20 more student trimmers are now out there doing their assignments, mentorships and case studies. This year they came from all over Australia and as far afield as Germany to learn from the course instructors, Jeremy Ford, [...]

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Barefoot News

Book Launch Founder Facts by Jen Clingly and Marg Richardson At the Functional Hoof Conference which is happening right now in Melbourne, Jen and Marg launched their newest booklet to help horse owners access easy to understand information on founder and laminitis. While there are lots of in-depth books, articles and research papers on this [...]

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