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Albert our three year old shire gelding was turned out in a nine acre field with his three pals. Our house overlooks the fields so out of habit you just take a mental note of who’s where and what they’re…

Lucky was in his prime, healthy, and competition fit. Within 4 hours of developing mild symptoms of Atypical Myopathy, he was in intensive care at one of the UK’s top equine hospitals. Despite hospitalisation for 5 days we still couldn’t…

My husband bought me Rio, my gorgeous Connemara, for my 30th birthday.   I had him all of three months before my daughter, who was 8 at the time, stole him and took him to pony club camp.  He was a…

Reilly was a beautiful homebred tobiano ISH, foaled on 26/04/09, we had him his whole life but lost him to Atypical Myopathy when he was just 13yrs old. He was a family horse, an all-rounder, fit and strong. We moved…

Dobbie had been wintering out with Bob our 15.1h 12 year old Connemara.  I had moved them from my stables at home in December to my winter field because it was so wet and muddy at home. They had plenty…

9 years ago today (12th April 2023) I got to the yard about 6.30 after work. Usually both horses would come running over for their tea but that day only HP did. I gave HP his and walked over to…

I bought Dakota in April 2022 as a 10 month old. She was feral when she arrived: untouchable and a complete blank canvas but my dream horse in everyway.  An Appaloosa cross Trakehner with the most stunning colouring and we…

On the 10th November 2022 I took  Luna, my 9yr old Cob X out for a ride.  She was feeling sluggish and lazy, which really wasn’t like her. Later that day we went down to see her in the evening…

I have to go back at least 7 years when Fred, my horse, got Atypical Myopathy. So some things could be a bit vague. We had had the first named storm of the Autumn in October.  Fred was down the…