Hard facts are often what is needed when it comes to fighting for benefits to the equestrian industry so a large part of a development officer’s life can be spent collecting evidence.
BHS Scotland has certainly been living in interesting times for the last month and as a result the development officer (me!) has been behaving like a particularly demented buzzing blue arsed fly.
Another bumper Blair Horse Trials marked the beginning of the end of the equestrian summer, with BHS looking forward to the Knockhill Horsepower cross country finals nestled in the middle of a busy Scottish hunter trials season.
THINGS THAT are exercising the horse world at the moment are various, ranging from ragwort, to hard ground, to equine crime and the fear of equine crime, to concerns about domestic and exotic disease.
GOOD OLD BHS for taking a snapshot of the ragwort situation during the recent ragwort awareness week (July 12-18 2010) because there is no doubt that even in Scotland land owners and managers are still in some areas getting away with allowing ragwort to spread out of control on land that is adjacent to grazing animals.
In this lovely dry high pressure of mid April with farmers drilling and spreading fertiliser all around it is exciting to find the going underfoot perfect for riding.
