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Saddle Research Trust 2023 Seminar Series ‘Equine Performance & Safeguarding: How Understanding Ridden Horse Performance Can Protect Our Social Licence to Operate in Equestrianism’ Monday 29th May at Netherton Equestrian, Perthshire. Tickets now on sale! This seminar will share new ground-breaking work that will change the future of the equine sports industry – for good. […]

Saddle Research Trust 2023 Seminar Series ‘Equine Performance & Safeguarding: How Understanding Ridden Horse Performance Can Protect Our Social Licence to Operate in Equestrianism’ Monday 20th March at Reaseheath College, Cheshire. Tickets now on sale! This seminar will share new ground-breaking work that will change the future of the equine sports industry – for good. […]

A worldwide audience logged on to listen to leading equine specialist veterinary clinicians, research scientists and practitioners last week. The world class presenters shared their equine knowledge and disseminated the findings from recent evidence-based studies at the Saddle Research Trust’s 4th International Conference entitled Welfare and Performance of the Ridden Horse: The Future. “With this […]

World renowned researchers will discuss the important issue of The Horse as a Stakeholder at the Saddle Research Trust’s 4th International Conference, to be held virtually on Saturday 11th December 2021. For those who can’t make it to the livestream on Saturday the event will be available via playback from 14th December. In this third […]

Hot topics such as riders’ self-perception of body image and road-associated risks for riders will be raised at the Saddle Research Trust’s 4th International Conference, to be held virtually on Saturday 11th December 2021. The hot topics will bring to the fore some of the latest news and views within the equestrian industry, with the […]

The benefits of gait analysis for equine performance and welfare will be debated at the Saddle Research Trust’s 4th International Conference, to be held virtually on Saturday 11th December 2021. In this second session of the day, leading veterinary authority on gait analysis, Dr. Filipe Serra Bragança, from the University of Utrecht Faculty of Veterinary […]

The latest in engineering science has been applied to a new horseriding simulator which opens the door to new approaches to riding training and welfare of the ridden horse. The new equipment will be unveiled at the Saddle Research Trust’s 4th International Conference, to be held virtually on Saturday 11th December 2021. In the first […]

Early bird tickets are now on sale for the Saddle Research Trust’s 4th International Conference. To be held virtually on Saturday 11th December 2021, the event will bring together renowned researchers and vets from around the globe to discuss ‘Welfare and Performance of the Ridden Horse: The Future’. The conference will explore how science is […]

This replay of this important professional saddle fit checking webinar was originally hosted by the MSFC Society and is aimed at Saddle Fitters, Veterinarians, Equine Therapists, Equitation Coaches, trainers and competition riders as well as horse owners. It was very well received by all attendees. In this link to the replay, Dr Anne Bondi, Director […]

Dr. Anne Bondi BHSI, PGDip, PhD, Director, Saddle Research Trust In a 2-part article published in our newsletters last year, I described how, through a progressive series of 12 published research studies, the Ridden Horse Pain Ethogram (RHpE) was first developed and then successfully applied to assist pain recognition in clinical cases and in further […]