Welfare and Performance of the Ridden Horse: Equine Safeguarding

How do you know if your horse is underperforming?

What does poor performance look like?

An educational and interactive day of presentations and practical demonstrations with an expert panel:

Programme

9.00 – Dr. Anne Bondi

“The concept of Equine Safeguarding: How do we define good performance? How prevalent is poor performance? What does science tell us?”

9.30 – Simon Grieve

"Reflections of a personal journey through the experience of training horses and competing at the highest level."

10.00 - Patrick Print

"Is there an elephant in the room? How does the equine industry view equine safeguarding? A professional coach's perspective."

10.30 - Christopher Bartle

"A lifetime at the elite side of equestrianism - What's it really like at the sharp end?"

11.00 – Coffee

11.30 - Dr. Tamzin Furtado

“Human behaviour: How do horse owners interact with professionals? How do they experience seeking help?"

12.00 – Dr. Lucy Grieve

"The veterinary perspective - Current practice and the difficulties vets face in recognising poor performance"

12.30 – Dr. Anne Bondi

“How to assess performance indicators”

1.30 – Lunch

2.15 Practical sessions: Performance indicator assessment

2.15 – Flatwork

3.00 – Jumping

3.45 – Group session

4.30 – Panel session

5.00 – Finish

 Tickets

F&I Members - £30

BHS APCs - £40

Non-members - £50

Students (valid student card required at door) - £20

Booking methods:

1. ONLINE - cards accepted. Payment will be processed through Sumup via a secure payment link. Simply book your ticket and you will receive a link. 

2. BANK TRANSFER - F&I Association - Sort code 30-94-93 - Account 00472754

3. ON THE DOOR - £60 - cash or Sumup (cards accepted)

Meet the Panel of Speakers

Dr. Anne Bondi BHSI PGDip DProf

Anne Bondi is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Saddle Research Trust and Chair of the Board of Directors of SMART Saddles. During a successful professional competitive riding career, Anne enjoyed success at Advanced level in both dressage and eventing both in the UK and overseas and continues to produce young sports horses. After being awarded a Doctorate from the University of Sunderland, Anne has continued her research interests in horse and rider interactions, authoring a number of peer-reviewed scientific papers and academic textbook chapters. She is a peer reviewer for several scientific journals, a PhD Examiner, a Higher Education Programme Consultant, a Post Graduate Course Tutor and delivers a wide range of training courses for professional practitioners. She currently provides a coaching service for all ages and stages of riders from her base in mid Wales.

Simon Grieve BSc BHSI

Simon has competed regularly at top level in eventing for the past 15 years. He has contested twenty 5* events as well as winning nearly 100 national events. He competes internationally in showjumping, is a consistent winner at 1.40m level nationally and finished in the top ten in the Hickstead Speed Derby. A busy coach, Simon enjoys helping riders of all levels through grassroots right up to Advanced level. Simon is also a television presenter, a YouTuber with a large social media following, a podcaster and a commentator. As a writer he has worked for numerous publications, including Horseand Hound and Your Horse magazines. A keen skier, hiker and climber, Simon has completed the National 3 Peaks challenge and climbed the highest mountains of Italy (Gran Paradiso) and France (Mont Blanc).

Patrick Print OBE FBHS

Patrick trained originally with Janet Sturrock FBHS and later with Pat Manning FBHS, who instilled in him the importance of correct classical riding. Patrick is former National Instructor for Scotland, has served on a number of BHS committees and was Chairman of Training and Education before becoming Chairman of the Society. He is also a former member of the British Equestrian Federation Council and was awarded an OBE for services to Equestrianism. Patrick has been a BHS Chief Assessor for over 40 years and mentors and trains young riding teachers up to Fellowship level. He is a former Director and Chairman of HorseScotland and was the Consultant Editor of The BHS Complete Manual of Equitation. Patrick currently teaches clinics all over the UK and abroad.

Christopher Bartle BSc FBHS

As a rider, Christopher has represented the British Team in dressage, where he was twice National Champion and then made history by becoming the highest ever placed British rider at Olympic level. In eventing, he represented Britain on the European gold medal winning team and went on to win Badminton in 1998. As a coach, Christopher was the dressage trainer for the British Olympic eventing team before he spent sixteen years training the German eventing team, which became hugely successful at Olympic level. He was appointed the British Eventing Team’s High Performance Coach in 2017 and has since seen consistent success at Olympic, World and European Championship level. In 1986 Christopher was awarded the British Equestrian Federation's Medal of Honour and in 2001 he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of the British Horse Society. Christopher is Managing Director of the world-renowned Yorkshire Riding Centre, where he coaches a wide variety of private clients.

Dr. Tamzin Furtado BA(hons) AdvDip, PhD, PGCAP

Tamzin is Lecturer in Human Behaviour Change for Animals at the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool. Tamzin is a social scientist with a background in global health, and has a specific interest in the interconnections between human and animal health and wellbeing. She completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool studying how we can improve the management of obesity in horses, particularly focusing on horse-human relationships and human behaviour change. She now works on projects covering a wide range of aspects of understanding human behaviour in order to improve companion animal welfare, and in using social sciences to find out more about how we can help people to change. Tamzin has co-authored numerous published academic research papers.

Dr. Lucy Grieve MA VetMB MRCVS

Lucy graduated from the University of Cambridge. She is currently Veterinary Projects Officer at the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) and is a former BEVA President. Lucy previously held a clinical role at Rossdales Equine Hospital in Newmarket, where she saw all types of horses from happy hackers through to amateur sports horses to elite racehorses. Her main areas of interest are horse lameness, diagnostic imaging and poor performance, and she is passionate about maximising the welfare of horses at all times. Lucy is a Board Member for the Federation of European Equine Veterinary Association and the Specialist Trustee for Welfare for the British Horse Society.