World Horse Welfare

Like I said, now the BHS...

So the big agencies obviously have always had paid welfare officers, so obviously like World Horse Welfare has field officers.

Yeah.

Bransby has, um, paid welfare officers-

So maybe you might not see an improvement now, but maybe for that horse you are the only eyes and ears on that.

Yeah.

Or maybe you were the first person to see that, but then you've been able to tell somebody else like another local charity or the World Horse Welfare or you've been able to pass it on to the RSPCA.

So maybe it doesn't have a direct impact now, and to be honest, and this has happened recently with a case that, that's kind of been in the papers kind of locally, some things are a very, very slow burner.

But reports where we can't attend physically ourselves, um, generally we would suggest to people to have a little look at the National Equine Welfare Council website, um, because on there you'll find a list of lots of different charities and organizations that you could contact as an alternative, and you can sort of see which charities operate in the area that you're, um, you know, that you're reporting the horse.

You can find contact information, phone numbers for other charities that you could contact, the RSPCA, World Horse Welfare, British Horse Society, and there's many others as well.

So have you seen an increase in any particular welfare concerns over the last few years? Is there something that you're seeing a lot of in 2026 that you haven't before?

I think it really is dependent on, like, time of year.

Once again, congratulations.

[whoosh] The inaugural Congress Exhibitor Awards, uh, saw Calibra CT win the Sustainability Award, whilst Boehringer won the Space Only Award, and World Horse Welfare won the Best Shell Scheme.

Good job on all of them.

I know how much work goes into making those stands.

Is that, yes, how can we change our riding and change our thought process to be better at what we do to help our horses?

And that's, um, Roz, exactly the reason why when, when the idea of Talk Horse came up that I really wanted to, to take up, um, the role of co-hosting it with Tristan because, for me, it's, it's something I'm passionate about with World Horse Welfare, with the children's books I've written, that, and, particularly in this day and age, that absolutely we have to do right by our horses.

And, and the largest ma- majority of us do, and I think it's really important for us to put this message across through the podcast, to tell people's stories, and be able to s- sit here and, and chat to you about your mindset, hear your words of wisdom, Toddy's, Lucinda's, many people in the racing world, and the whole equestrian world because it is important that there's so much good that goes on, and we're, and there's so many horses, but it's still about educating and telling the stories.

And I, and I love every bit of it, and-

She'll have her view on that and also what to do now that TripAdvisor globally is attempting to cancel horse racing effectively.

Roley Oers, the chief executive of World Horse Welfare, weighs in on that as well.

What should and can horse racing do? Paul Ferguson is here with his special offer for Nick Luck Daily readers for jumps horses to follow, courtesy of Weatherby's.

And we talked to Phoebe Hobby, the owner breeder of Enhanced, the winner of the Racehorse to Aventa class at the Cornbury Horse Trials.

But yeah, is it altogether surprising? I'm not sure.

All right, for more on this, here's Roley Owens.

He's the chief executive of World Horse Welfare.

Roley, is there anything that horse sport generally can do to counteract the effect of a global policy from a multinational organisation like this?

So, the, the, the terrain takes a huge part of and huge role within the, the, the challenge of tomorrow's, um, course.

Then I did a bit for World Horse Welfare.

I'm a patron, so, um...

And it's wonderful, 'cause they are the charity of the year here at Burghley, and next year they celebrate their centenary.

Wow.

100 years.

So anyone that loves horses, obviously please support World Horse Welfare.

They do such a fantastic, um, job looking af-