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1st Equi-Ethics International Symposium in Brussel - September 2025

I am very proud to have been one of the speakers at this symposium on the ethics of training methods and horse welfare, particularly in the discipline of dressage.

This group was founded by Christine Stückelberger, world, European and Olympic dressage champion. It was on her initiative that I was able to give a lecture on stress in horses: how to recognise it and how to manage it.

It was a wonderful event held in the magnificent facilities of the Haras de la Ferme Rose stud farm south of Brussels. Many thanks also to the De Reys family. The other speakers were Per Waaler, Jan Symons, André Hascher, my colleague Tresemiek Picavet, Pat and Isabelle Delameilleure and, of course, Christine Stückelberger.

It was a great success for this group and ideas are already germinating for 2026.