24th September 2020

British Mules In The News: Volume 5

Time for some more interesting snippets of mule history! Volume 1 (1716-1791) | Volume 2 (1800-1809)| Volume 3 (1810) | Volume 4 (1811) Volume 5 19th century – general Wow – hardly any for the...

4th September 2020

10 Mule Groups To Join On Facebook

If you’re a horse owner on social media, you will probably have encountered the scourge that is equestrian groups. I don’t know what it is about horse people, but put...

16th July 2020

Hank the Cabaret Mule

I have been pretty lax with blogging lately, partly because I’m not doing anything with my mules right now and partly because I have zero motivation to compile any other...

14th December 2019

Nine Free Mule Books To Read Online

I regularly use the Internet Archive while researching, but it only recently occurred to me to visit the book section direct and see what running a search for “mule” revealed....

2nd November 2019

3 Asinine Apparitions

Halloween is over and done with for another year, but I thought I’d take a moment to talk about a small selection of paranormal mule curiosities. For further reading, I...

5th October 2019

The Mulographer’s Library

I recently saw that a few people had been sharing images of their equestrian books, and thought it might be fun to share my mule library with you. This is...

27th September 2019

British Mules in the News: Volume 3

These volumes are getting shorter and shorter – but for the sake of brevity, I thought I’d keep this one to a single year! Some more mule-related highlights found while...

18th August 2019

British Mules in the News, vol. 2

This may seem like a much shorter time frame than in Volume One, but there are a great deal more mentions to sort through in the 19th century section of the...

9th August 2019

15 Mule Superstitions

The following are some of the interesting, strange, and downright wacky superstitions that I’ve come across about mules. 1. Romani people found the mule with the longest ears and asked...

26th July 2019

The FEI proposed rule change on allowing mules to compete

You are probably aware of this proposed rule change by now, but if not: the first draft of changes to the FEI general regulations for 2020 suggests altering their wording,...