Gazza’s progress

Gazza has now started some gentle work with us. Starting off with long reining in the round pen, then we progressed to a wander round the orchard…

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Beware of these scams-free horses!

We have been reading more and more stories lately whereby horses are offered free, ‘a donner‘, on French internet sites-often these turn out to be scams. The adverts are normally Pure breds such as Frisons, Spanish, Selle Francais horses who read to be the perfect horse. Yes, too good to be true was never a [...]

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Campaigning Success!

Here at ERF, we’re celebrating – we have just achieved our first campaigning goal to help safeguard the welfare of horses being transported from France to the UK under the guise of ‘rescuing’.
Behind the scenes, we have been working extremely hard for the past 5 months to raise the plight of these animals to the [...]

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ERF welcomes Gasparin

A few weeks ago ERF heard about the plight of Gasparin, a beautiful 15 yr old Norwegian Fjord gelding that was on his way to being sold to the abattoir. His French owners had acquired a property 5 years previous, and with it came a pony, Gasparin. They had tried selling him, to no avail, [...]

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Listen to Radio 4’s report on Jamie Grey

There are just 4 days left to listen to the very interesting Spindles Farm report that was aired on Friday on Radio 4. You can listen to it on BBC iplayer here.

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Adam Sheresdan clinic-June 13th

Last Saturday was a chance for horse lovers in the La Souterraine and surrounding areas to get together and watch Adam Sheresdan use his natural horsemanship techniques on a variety of different horses throughout the day. We took along Zurito (a horse rescued by Trina before ERF was formed) for Adam to use who, was [...]

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Making hay and haylage

Some of you will have already had your first crop of hay made this year before the rain came. In France hay can be made slightly earlier from the UK, from about mid May depending on what part of France you live in, with some people managing to  get a second cut later in the [...]

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Horse whisperer day

Just to remind those of you that didn’t see our posting in February for the horse whisper day, please  click here to have a read.
It’s being held at La Souterraine next Saturday, tickets must be booked in advance.

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The ERF Summer fete 2009

Yesterday was the ERF summer fete and what glorious weather we were blessed with down in the Dordogne. Approximately 500€ was raised from the raffle and donations from the generous stall holders, raffle prize donators and members of the public who attended. Thank you to everyone who turned up and supported this event, we hope [...]

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