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Horzing Around
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A place for people who love horses but are tired of the nonsense, the politics, the scandals, and the shiny surface that never tells the full story. For my full stories visit www.horzingaround.com
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🫏 Thursday cuteness alert --> #donkeys

#equine #horses #animals #winter #thursday #living #goodlive #riverdonkeys #cute #ezels

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🫏 Donkey Thursday ❄️ #donkey #horses #horsesofinstagram #cute #share #like #follow #likeandsubscribe
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January 8, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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A missed opportunity to prove me wrong...

#horses #equestrian #pferde #ridsport #cheval #caballo #countryfiles #stable #sports #horseblog #horzingaround #hest #paarden
Two Kinds of People, Cause Dirty Buckets Never Lie
Cleaning returned horse gear taught me a brutal truth some people prove you wrong by rising to the occasion. Others prove you right by not even trying. And the difference smells exactly as it sounds!
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January 7, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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The latest article recap on 👉🏻 Horzing Around [with a Z] don't forget to #subscribe

#horses #blogger #horseblog #podcast #horsepodcast
It's never any fault of the officials, never... | Horzing Around
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January 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Food for thought...

#horses #equestrian #horsebreeding don't forget to #share #like #follow
KWPN Raises the Bar on D-OC, What It Actually Means, and Why Should We Care
Raising health standards is never the problem. But when deadlines start driving decisions more than principles, it’s fair to ask whether we’re improving horses, or just improving paperwork.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Oh dear, slippery ice at its worst... #netherlands #belgium #benelux #snow #winter #visitlimburg #canada #norway #sweden
Surving Netherlands 🐧 #visit #venlo #ice #winter #snow #workout #survival #horses #visitlimburg
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January 6, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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It's a new year and the writing is back on track again. First post of the year is out!

#horses #blogger #writer #journalist #equestrian #horseowner #horsebreeding #animalneglect #eventing #animalcontrol #dressage #angermanagement #share #like #follow #linkinbio #insomnia
Irony, Horses, and the Things That Keep You Up at Night
I used to think I wrote about other people’s horse disasters. Turns out I was just rehearsing for my own.
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January 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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Things that make you go 😱😱😱

#climate #climatechange #deforestation #indonesia #savetheplanet #wakeup #accountability #wildlife #fauna #extinct #nature
Indonesia calls in military to help clear forests at rapid pace
Deforestation under way on 3mn hectares for state-backed food project
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December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The elite riders, riders whose professional reality has zero to nothing to do with national development, pony systems, or grassroots recruitment... Full story? Follow the link #horses #showjumping #dressage #eventing #globalchampionstour #sport #regulations #pferdesport #paardensport #ridsport
When One Rule Exposes a Sport Divided
One age-limit rule was enough to expose what equestrian sport rarely admits, we no longer live in the same reality. Federations, elite riders, parents and grassroots all reacted, loudly, and yet none ...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Heartbreaking 🫤

#photography #wildlife #frogs #savetheplanet #photoclowns #nature #planetearth #tourists #viral #attentionseekers #socialmedia #habitat #stupidity #galaxyfrogs #rainforest

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‘Magical’ galaxy frogs disappear after reports of photographers destroying their habitats
Researcher in Kerala rainforest sounds alarm after being told frogs had died after being handled by humans
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December 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Latest chronicle is up - missing the smell of ink...

#horses #horsebreeding #eventing #dressage #showjumping #springen #dressuur #sportpferde #sportpaarden #ridsport #media #journalism #independentpublishing #writers #freelancer #horseblog
When Horse Magazines Still Smelled Like Ink and Bloodlines Mattered
Before social media decided what mattered, a horse magazine did. And somehow, it managed to teach an entire generation how to think, argue, dream, and obsess, about horses.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The scariest thing I've done so far in regards to writing is to re-woke every post from heading straight into people's inboxes. Will they forget me or head straight into the site by own hand 👀
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#nervous #horseblog #blog #blogger #writer #journalism #holidayseason #focus #horses
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I hardly recognise the equestrian sport I once admired above all others. What used to be filled with passion and purpose now feels derailed and detached from reality.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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One of those weird stories in modern history around horses...

#horses #truecrime #horseracing #betting #equestrian #share #like #follow #linkinbio #horseblog
The Dead Horse Who Won at 57–1
A horse declared dead suddenly storms home a 57–1 winner. A vet pockets insurance money and betting winnings. The Dr. Mark Gerard scandal remains one of the greatest equine identity crisis of all time...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Appealing a Ground Jury decision is not just difficult, it is almost structurally impossible... for the full story visit the website

#horses #equestriansport #dressage #fourinhand #showjumping #eventing #pferdesport #paardensport #dressuur #springen #ridsport #chevaux #cheval #caballo
The Power of the FEI Ground Jury
Why do so many FEI appeals fail? Two recent cases offer a clear answer If you’ve ever wondered why so many appeals in equestrian sport simply evaporate before they even get started, two recent FEI Tri...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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👀 The Swedish Equestrian Federation has announced a shiny new reform, no elite competitions for riders under 13. Not nationally, not internationally...

#children #animalwelfare #horses #showjumping #equestriansport #ridsport #dressage #paardensport #pferdesport #chevaux #cheval #hest #ponies
Is Sweden’s New Age Rule Really Protecting the Kids?
Sweden wants to stop under-13 riders from competing at elite level, a rule meant to “protect children,” but one that risks sidelining ambition, shrinking the grassroots, and throwing breeders and pony...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Deep in the mountains there's a world of untold beauty. It changes in matters of seconds, never to be repeated. Patagonia's Cerro Paine Grande, towering 2.6 km above, emerges in a spectacle of the eternal fight between light & darkness.

#photography #bluesky #landscapephotography #nature #mountains
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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A pair of Lesser Yellowlegs (I think? Maybe that's a Greater Yellowlegs in the back? I can't tell the damn things apart) are focused on something in the sky.

Kent Island, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025

📸 #birds #LEYE #shorebirds #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A medium sized shorebird with mottled brown and white plumage is standing in shallow water, looking up and to the left. Another similar bird is slightly out of focus in the background.
December 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Maybe I’m not a content machine with ring-light skin. Maybe my audience is not even huge, but they’re real. They’re thoughtful. They’re invested in this sport, and they actually show up... #media #journalism #horses #horseblogger #eventing #showjumping #business #dressage #horseracing #influencers
My Follower Count Doesn’t Determine My Journalism Skills
More and more events now judge media by their follower count. Cute, until you realise the loudest influencers aren’t the ones buying tickets, covering stories, or shaping the sport. When did journalis...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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When horsey dreams partly go down the drain...

#horses #equestrian #ponies #traininghorses #eventing #dressage #showjumping #eventinghorses #pferdesport #paardensport #ridsport
The Trust We Pay For, and the Truth We Discover
We rarely talk about the moment you realise the person you trusted with your horses didn’t do the job you paid for. That strange blend of shock, sadness and self-blame. But maybe we should, because it...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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One of my original pet peeves in the equestrian industry - price on request...

#horsebusiness #horses #eventing #dressage #horseracing #dressage #pony #ponies #showjumping #money #business #cheval #pferd #hest #ridsport #paarden #paardensport
Price on Request...
In the horse world, everything’s for sale, except the actual price. From horses to horseboxes, sellers whisper “DM for details” like it’s state security. Why is everyone suddenly allergic to numbers? ...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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A horse gets so seriously injured by a temporary fence at a National Championship [in a leading nation in showjumping] and no one is to blame? Why is that?

#horses #legal #truecrime #horseshow #showjumping #animalwelfare #weirdthings #safetymatters #equestrian #pferde #paarden #ridsport
It's never any fault of the officials, never!
In horse sport, organisers and officials dodge accountability while riders are left to shoulder the fallout. Here’s one more example of how that story plays out, and why the status quo is finally star...
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December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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True crime Saturday on Horzing Around 🫣 the Andrew McConnon case

#horses #truecrime #equestrian #eventing #dressage #showjumping #sport #actionsport #horzingaround #horseblog #horsenews #weekend #animalwelfare #AndrewMcConnon #storytelling #weirdthings
When the FEI Brought a Bazooka to a Fly-Swatting Contest
The FEI Came in Swinging. With one hundred and twenty pages of witness contradictions, procedural tug-of-war, and enough legal jargon to tranquillise a dressage judge, all culminating in a 20-month su...
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December 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Not even #kevinheart can save this shitshow 🙈 #fifa #worldcup #epicfail
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Is this #worldcupdraw over soon #football
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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#fifa #peaceprize #donaldtrump
🤣🙈🤣🙈🤣🙈

If only it was April 1st today #disgrace #football #sportswashing #holymoly #politics #humour

👉🏻 My late God father actually got the #nobel #peace #prize #nobelpeaceprize
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Happy Sinterklaas everyone :D

#sinterklaas #paarden #paardensport #amerigo #horses #equestrian #sintnicholas #pferde
The Netherlands’ Most Iconic Horse Deserves a Bonus
Every December 5th, Sinterklaas steals the spotlight, but it’s Amerigo who does the real heavy lifting. From rooftop gymnastics to navigating Dutch chimneys, this legendary horse works harder than mos...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM