Rebel horse care

Rebel horse care Everything is connected. Environment, hoof care, gentle training and balanced, bitless riding. Working for better horse welfare through education.

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09/08/2026

In a fast paced world, here’s a bit of slow paced horse training for you!!

My 24 year old paint mare Caroline and me playing with the pole exercise that I call:
“One foot over”.

This exercise is not about performance or getting it right. It’s about communication.
Can I without touching Caroline communicate to her which leg or legs I would like her to move forwards or backwards over the pole?

This is an excellent exercise to work on fine tuning communication with body language and voice cues and it’s great to practice good timing with the marker signal and food rewards.

It helps the horse develop body awareness and proprioception and best of all, they usually find it interesting and fun.

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03/08/2026

In the fall last year I had a visit from my friend .
While she was here we played with teaching my now 24 year old mare Enya, doing crunches.

After practicing it with her for a while Enya began to develop an unhealthy movement pattern, pushing her head forward and down while tensing up her back as she pushed her weight backwards.
So I stopped practicing crunches with her and decided to decode the movement completely.

I do not believe that we as trainers should be micromanaging our horses every move, but I do think that sometimes they need help to learn to do a specific movement or exercise correctly.
Anyone, horses included can develop compensatory and unhealthy movement patterns.

I find that mixing in-hand work with liberty work is an amazing way to keep training both healthy, playful and fun for both of us.

Here I ask Enya to shift her weight backwards and lift through the thoracic sling. Then come forward again, then backwards, then forward.
This way I make sure she keeps listening to my guidance instead of going on autopilot and throwing herself backwards.

This exercise now is helping Enya strengthen her thoracic sling muscles, so she can stay strong and healthy as she ages.
With time she can come further back over the haunches without losing the lift through the sling, and at some point we can begin to play with this at liberty again.

29/07/2026

New hoof trimming video uploaded to the Rebel Academy!!

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23/07/2026

24 year old Enya and me playing with lateral movements at liberty.
Practicing with no tack on the horse is such an excellent way to find out how well our communication is working.
It is a great way to fine tune my body language, feel and energy.

This is Kathy’s right hind hoof. Both pictures are taken right after a fresh trim. You can see that when the top picture...
21/07/2026

This is Kathy’s right hind hoof.
Both pictures are taken right after a fresh trim.
You can see that when the top picture was taken, she had a pronounced lateral flaring.

This flaring was there because the horse was dealing with a wound higher up in the leg, and she wasn’t moving a lot in the environment she was in at the time.
The outer hoof wall was not thicker in the flared area, than the natural thickness of the hoof.

And when this is the case I do NOT rasp off the flaring. Had I done that I would have rasped the whole outer hoof wall off the hoof in that area and probably some of the inner hoof wall too.
Continuously doing that will result in the hoof mutating and building mass in a different area, and it will result in a foot sensitive horse.

Instead I make sure to keep the hoof balanced medio-laterally and with a good rolled outer hoof wall.
The hoof will then grow out the flare on its own when the time is right.
In the meantime between the two pictures, Kathy moved to my track system where she gets lots more movement and can keep her hooves better balanced on her own, with my help here and there.

Note: I am not talking about long flared out toes due to laminitis here.
In those cases there are measurements that can be used to safely reduce the flared toes and help the horse.

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09/07/2026

Do you want to join the horse welfare revolution and learn about species appropriate living environments for horses, about natural hoof care and gentle, kind horse training?

Would you like to make changes to the way you keep, care for and train your horse but is not sure where to begin?

As a member of the Rebel Academy you get access to my video library with videos in 3 main categories: environment, hoof care and training.
You also get access to my blog and mini courses and become part of a community group where you can ask questions and share your joys and struggles.

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05/07/2026

Life is a balancing act.
If you want to play with fire, you must know how to access water.

Vinta and I are sometimes exploring the fire element to find bigger movements and expressions.
But big movements and loud expressions brings with it big emotions too.
Vinta is a hyper sensitive horse and sometimes she struggles to come back down after up regulated work.

Part of our routine when we engage in wild play is spending the last 5-10 minutes of the session calming and quieting down together.
Sometimes while I stroke her body, sometimes just standing together in calm presence.

With time and practice Vinta will get better at down regulating, but not if I don’t prioritize it in the time we spend together.
Everything is about finding the balance.

27/06/2026

Vinta and I went for a walk in the forest this evening, after the worst summer heat had settled for the day.
I took pictures of her 4 hooves when we got back from the walk.

The horses are keeping the hooves incredibly well these days in the track system.
When the weather is dry like this, they wear the hooves more on their own in the gravel, sand and rocks on the tracks.

I keep trimming to a minimum, basically just rounding off the outer hoof wall here and there to prevent it from cracking.

Most horses don’t wear the hooves enough to self trim and then we need to help them with our tools.
Even if a horse is sound, walking around on a long hoof wall long term, can cause injury to the soft tissues inside the hoof capsule.

This horse recently had two huge abscesses at the same time, in two different hooves. A combination of different occurre...
14/06/2026

This horse recently had two huge abscesses at the same time, in two different hooves.
A combination of different occurrences and a very wet and muddy pasture that didn’t dry up for several months because of the crazy weather over winter and spring, caused this poor girl to double abscess.

The owner did everything she could to help her horse, soaking, wrapping and booting.
Both abscesses broke out in late March.

The first pictures are before and after trim of the right hind hoof on May 9th, so about 5 weeks after the abscess broke open.

You can see that the abscess had basically undermined the heels, frog and sole of the entire hoof. It was a huge abscess!!

In the after trim picture, you can see that I have left the sole although part of it was already loose.
At the apex of the frog you can see the new sole forming underneath.
Had I removed the top layer of sole at this point, the horse would have gotten very sore.

In the second slide you can see the hoof on June 13th before and after trim. The hoof has formed a complete new sole underneath and is now ready to get rid of the old sole.

In the third slide, you can see the quite exaggerated growth that had happened in only 5 weeks.

It is so fascinating to see how the body’s defense mechanism works to protect itself. Very rapid new growth can take place in an emergency, and when things have healed up, the hoof horn production can go back to normal.

The horse is sound and has been moved to a safer and dryer environment.

09/06/2026

Another Rebel horse and hoof care workshop successfully completed!
A beautiful group of people attended a weekend workshop with me in my home country Denmark.

The students came to learn about how to take better care of their equine friends, and how to begin to take matters into their own hands in regard to hoof care.

Learning to trim your own horses hooves takes time and practice, and is not done in two days, but a weekend workshop is the beginning.

Some of the students who attended, have done several workshops with me and it’s great to see their progress.

The condition of the cadaver hooves that we keep seeing in these workshops, tells me that it is as important as ever to keep teaching and educating, and spreading solid knowledge about horse care and hoof care.

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