By Prodney

Well, this is a novelty, apparently I’m in the shop on the website and am maybe being manhandled into a shopping cart even as I write this.

Shirley, Thomas and Jihee were all students of Sports Industry Management at Loughborough University. After Natalie gave a talk about the work of Park Lane Stables, they came to visit. This is their account of the lasting impressions they took away.

By Prodney

I’ve heard talk of it being ‘a perfect stocking filler’, and given my starring role in the story I’d like to see it in the Christmas haynets of as many foals as possible too.

You know how you can walk into a room and feel something’s not quite right? Or perhaps your friend says they’re OK but you sense they’re not? Well, horses are REALLY skilled in this department.

Rubia Campera introduces her new role with the Park Lane Stables team.

By Prodney

How do you humans manage with just five senses?

Actually, I know the answer to that one. It’s a long time since you humans had to worry about being eaten by predators.

Emma Denny is a student of Healing Animals Organisation, and a friend of Park Lane Stables and its horses. In her blog post she explains what equine healing is, how it works – and how she first became convinced and excited by it.

By Prodney

While you humans are fanning yourselves in the heat and drinking iced drinks, spare a thought for us. We struggle in the heat too, and just like you, some of us more than others.

Sometimes you might see a horse standing quietly, with his lower lip slack and trembling. What does it mean? When we see this in a human we know that person is trying not to cry.

By Prodney

Marcel is Park Lane’s very own ‘horse-whisperer’, often uncannily accurate at reading what’s in my mind, even when I’m in a complex cognitive mood…

By Prodney

I’ve heard volunteer Marcel talk about ‘intelligent horsemanship’ and ‘horse listening’, and I have to admit that me and the team really like his style.