This is the fifth tutorial in the free introductory "Starting with endurance" series called: I want to start to do endurance with my young horse  When you have done some endurance with a mature horse you might want to buy a youngster especially for it. Or you might have a youngster you would like to try in endurance without having previou...

 This is the seventh tutorial in the introductory series "Starting with endurance" called: The difference between national and international (FEI) endurance  National level endurance is the endurance of the country you live in. It has national rules and usually distances go from 20 to 160 km and usually also some options for multiple...

This is last tutorial in the introductory series "Starting with endurance" called: What makes a successful (major distance) endurance horse?  Has the endurance bug bitten? Or are you quite a competitive person and want to try and really go for it? In that case you might need that really talented endurance horse (or perhaps you already hav...

A while ago I turned 50... And I took stock of my body and how it is doing, looks and wear-and-tear wise. And I must say, I have seen a lot of 50 year olds that look a lot worse (and a good few who look better 😂), but overall I'm not too bad. Wear-and-tear wise it's probably a little less, I am getting more and more aches and pains, but t...

I can tell you: there is no shortage of passion in Aqui and a lot of power as well. Though maybe that's not really passion but just testosterone, him being a young virile male.The passion I'm talking about is the passion for our horses. That truly is a powerful thing! What is it about these animals that make us love them so? We spent loads of money...

Do you know the expression "having a monkey on your back"? It means you have an addiction. Well, I wish it was just a monkey on my back. Suffering from multiple horse syndrome, I have horses on my back. And they are bloody heavy! Horses get a lot heavier on your back in the winter months... especially long tough winters like this one and last winte...

 2020 was the weirdest year (so far ;) ) ...  No competing in my case, not only because of Covid, but mostly because I had no means of transport for a good part of the year..). Not much IRL coaching because of Covid... Several horses with little health scares (colic mostly due to the weird temperature ch...