© Emma Hodgson
A webinar from the British Horse Foundation (BHF) will type the premise of a greatest follow information for the manufacturing of younger horses, with an eye fixed on horse sport’s social license.
The free webinar on December 6 will construct on the work began by the BHF at its Better Beginnings Roundtable Event in October, which centered on the improved administration and welfare of the younger horse from conception to 2 years by means of the lens of the rising risk to equestrianism’s social license to function.
The objective of the venture is to deal with and enhance equine sustainable welfare with a recent method, by bettering breeding and manufacturing practices, as much as the age of two, when the expansion plates fuse.
BHF chair Jane Nixon will chair the session. The panel includes British Showjumping efficiency supervisor Di Lampard, four-time Olympian and main breeder and coach Jennie Loriston-Clarke, Olympic farrier Ben Benson, four-time Olympian Richard Davison, Pony Club chief government Marcus Capel, and Jan Birch, whose doctoral research and specialist analysis pursuits are in copy, lactation and progress.
They will reply questions posed by the general public and the consensus might be used to create a best-practice information for younger horse manufacturing.
Nixon mentioned: “We should produce a content material horse moderately than chastise for an sad one.
“We will address, using the most modern science and technology, and capitalising on age-old horsemanship experience, issues to ensure our horses and ponies are truly fit for purpose.”
» Register for the free webinar Better Beginnings – Your Opinion Matters, on December 6 at 7pm (GMT) or by scanning the QR code.
