Bedale Riding for the Disabled

08/08/2026

Tack and tog sale Catterick Saddle Club

WEDNESDAY 26th AUGUST

22/07/2026

🌟 Meet the team 🌟
🐎 Sid 🐎

16/07/2026

At the weekend Claire and Esther competed at the RDA national championships at Hartpury on Claire’s horse Lucinda.
Esther won her dressage and received a lovely sash. Then was 2nd in level 1 show jumping. Claire was also 2nd in the level 4 jumping. 🏵️

15/07/2026

🌟 Meet the team 🌟

Dexter
A legend.... couldn't ask for a better riding school horse.

There must be so many who have a story or picture with Dexter. Share them in the comments below. ️ ⏬️

14/07/2026

More photos from last Thursday’s visit to Farm - Nipna Native & Rare Breeds 😃

14/07/2026

We all enjoyed a brilliant morning at Home Farm Rare Breeds Centre last Thursday. Thank you so much Anna and Jess for introducing us to all your amazing animals- what characters!! 😃😍 🐖🐴🐑

12/07/2026

10/07/2026

She never set out to write a children’s classic.

She wanted to stop people from hurting horses.

By the time Anna Sewell began writing Black Beauty, she had spent decades watching them suffer. As a teenager, she slipped on a rainy road and permanently injured both ankles. The treatments of the day only made things worse. For the rest of her life, she lived with chronic pain, relying on horse-drawn carriages to get almost everywhere. Unlike most Victorians, she didn’t see horses as scenery or machines. She depended on them. She spoke to them gently. And she noticed everything.

She watched exhausted cab horses whipped through city streets. She saw animals worked until they collapsed. She despised the fashionable “bearing rein,” a leather strap that forced horses to hold their heads unnaturally high simply because wealthy owners thought it looked elegant. It was painful, unnecessary, and everywhere.

Confined to bed as her health deteriorated, Sewell spent six years writing the only novel of her life. Too weak to write for long, she often dictated chapters to her mother, Mary, who carefully transcribed them. Her revolutionary idea was simple: let the horse tell the story.

Instead of preaching, Black Beauty invited readers inside the mind of an animal. Suddenly, the horse wasn’t property. It had fears, memories, joy, exhaustion, and pain. Readers who had walked past working horses every day found themselves unable to look away.

Published in November 1877, the book was an immediate success. Anna Sewell died just five months later, never knowing it would sell more than 50 million copies, be translated into dozens of languages, and become one of the most influential animal welfare books ever written.

At her funeral, her mother made one final request: the horses pulling Anna’s hearse would wear no bearing reins.

It was a quiet tribute to a woman who changed the world simply by giving a horse a voice.

08/07/2026

Reminder that tomorrow is our annual trip out.

We’re visiting a rare breed farm (details in the attached link). Arrive at 10:30, have a look around, and then packed lunches afterwards (bring your own). See you there And don’t forget your sunscreen - it’s going to be hot🌞

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08/07/2026

Wishing Esther and Lu all the very best at the RDA National Championships at Hartpury this weekend 😃🙌