Nzuri Equine

22/04/2026

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20/02/2023

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18/02/2023

04/09/2022

For anyone who is in need of good quality, organic hay, in the South Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire area, I can highly recommend the guy I buy mine from. I’ve been feeding it to my horses for over a year, and they are fussy and have loved every bale. He predominantly made it for his own livestock, but over the years their numbers have diminished so now he sells it instead. He is looking at selling off last years bales, which I am currently using and it’s really lovely.

The bales are 4 string, about 120cm x 80 x 70 and are £25 a bale.

They can be collected from South Weston in any number of bales, where there are facilities for loading trailers.

Deliveries of 2-4 by tractor can be made within a 3-4 mile radius of South Weston (OX7). A delivery charge is payable depending on distance and size of load.

Deliveries by trailer loads of 6, 12 or 18 bales can be arranged within a 4-8 mile radius, but the buyer would need to have their own facilities for unloading and stacking. Again, delivery charge would depend on load and distance.

PM me if you’re interested and I can put you in touch.

28/08/2022

Indeed.

16/08/2022

A fantastic result for 13 year old Sienna and Flossie! I’m very proud of them!!!

Congratulations to Sienna and Flossie. They scored a fantastic 72% for fourth place at PC Championships in the Open freestyle class today. Best of luck for the Open team competition tomorrow.

08/08/2022

Horses are amazingly tolerant, giving creatures.

It unfortunately means they’re often exploited due to the ambitions of the human. After their basic needs are met, you must be very thoughtful in the training of your horse.

Your first duty is to preserve the purity of the paces. What does this mean? Walk has 4 beats, trot has 2, canter has 3, gallop has 4. ALWAYS. If not, something is wrong biomechanically, and your horse is at risk of injury. BTW impure paces can usually be detected in a photograph, even though it is only a “moment in time”, AND this applies to all disciplines.

Strapping a horse’s mouth shut with a crank/flash (or other) noseband very often contributes. The fact is, a horse cannot maintain full range of motion with his hind legs if he can’t move his tongue and jaw. FACT.

For jumping, if the horse bolts off - away from, towards, or after a jump, putting on a bigger bit and a martingale will not fix it. If a horse hesitates or stops, pulling out the whip will NEVER make him more confident.

These are just a few hints that your horse is asking for HELP. Go back. Consolidate the basics. Another wonderful thing about horses is they're retrainable. If you ignore the hints, eventually the horse will either break down, or will SHOUT to get your attention, and you will get hurt.

After all, horses are dangerous. We tell everyone that. But actually they are not. We wouldn’t be able to ride them if they were truly dangerous. You know what’s dangerous? People are.

Ponder this excerpt from Franz Mairinger’s book “Horses are made to be Horses”:

I recall an incident in Sydney when we had a lame horse with a very bad tendon, and the rider wanted to start the horse the next day. We asked Roy Stewart, the veterinary surgeon, and he said, ‘Yes, that’s the trouble. People always think that horses are made for man, but that’s not true. Horses are made to be horses’. I thought about that a lot, and decided that if I should write a book I would call it Horses are made to be Horses.

(Franz Mairinger was the first coach of an Australian Olympic Equestrian Team, his excellent book is out of print, but can occasionally be found second hand - buy it if you see it)

(Picture credit Thinking Art )