Kim Dawson is an expert on equine worms.   We are now offering worming programs with faecal counts and advice on treatment.  In this newsletter.

TEST BEFORE YOU TREAT – ONLY $7 per horse
ONLY TREAT HORSES WITH AN EGG COUNT
USE CHEMICAL ANTHELMINTICS APPROPRIATELY
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 Mature large strongyles in a horse’s gut. 

Why do people behave the way they do? Recently we have seen people fighting in supermarkets, hoarding toilet paper and generally behaving like idiots, based on what? Is it pressure from peers, social media or just humans being sheep and not being able to reason things out for themselves?
The same blind faith that someone knows better (generally social media) is what drives horse owners to ignore basic husbandry procedures and conduct parasite programs that are unsuited to the individual horse while promoting the ever-widening problem of resistance in the worm population to the drugs that are currently available to horse owners.  And there are no new ones in the pipeline.

A basic knowledge of the parasites that infect horses is a good place to start, if you understand the life cycle and take measures to interrupt that lifecycle you can go a long way to either eliminating or reducing them to levels that are sub clinical and therefore not a problem to the horse. The five main parasites that infect a horse are:

STRONGYLES (large Strongylus spp & small  Cyathastome spp)
PINWORMS (Oxyuris equi)
BOTS (Gasterophilus spp)
TAPEWORM (Anoplocephala  perfoliarta)
ROUNDWORMS  (ASCARIDS) (Parascaris equorum)

These are your main parasites and each has it’s own unique way of dealing with it’s host (the horse). Below is a short outline of the lifecycle of each group:

Small Strongyles These are the small white worms you may see that are expelled after treatment. They have a cycle that is basically 28 days from ingestion of the egg to adults that can produce eggs. They are numerous in number and are prolific egg layers. Their larvae can encyst in the gut wall for many months before they re-emerge and continue their lifecycle. I am of the opinion that the larvae will only do this when the horse is under nutritional distress and the worm is protecting itself from killing the host, a host is no good to a parasite dead, so if they can mitigate their effect, some larvae will go into hibernation until nutritional levels are restored, this is probably why you can see an increase of small red worms in the dung, if horses are treated when there is  a flush in the feed, these are the encysted cyathasomes (or small strongyle larvae) that have been killed before they can recommence their lifecycle. If a horse has an even nutritional level and a low parasite burden, encysted cyathasomes may not be too much of a problem.

Large strongyles have basically the same lifecycle from egg to adult but due to their migratory behaviour in the horse can cause a lot more problems.  However, the large strongyle  that used to cause most of the problems due to it’s progress through the mesenteric artery in the gut, which sometimes lead to arterial clots, is no longer a widespread problem and is only seen occasionally. The other large strongyles are more benign although in large numbers cause problems.

Pinworms, this worm has a long lifecycle of around five months from ingestion of the eggs to sexually mature adults. The female lays her eggs in a sticky substance around the rim of the anus and when the horse rubs it ‘s tail on a post, tree or fence the eggs are removed and stay in the sticky mass until a horse comes and chews the area infecting itself with the pinworm eggs. To check if your horse has pinworms, just lift the tail and see if you can see any yellowish exudates, if there just wash thoroughly with warm soapy water. As they cause horses to rub their tails good idea to give the tail a good wash & condition at the same time.

Bots are actually a fly larvae. The fly lays her eggs on the horse and when the horse either mutually grooms another horse or licks their own legs where the eggs are, they simulate the eggs to hatch and the very small larvae commence their migration from the mouth to the stomach. The entire cycle can take up to three months from eggs being ingested to the adult leaving the stomach via the alimentary canal to be deposited in the manure where it will burrow into the ground to complete it’s lifecycle. An adult fly will emerge, depending on the conditions from three to ten weeks, where the cycle begins again.  Prevent ingestion by removing bot eggs with a bot knife regularly. 
    Bot larvae in the stomach of a horse.

Tapeworms, not like the ones you might see in your cat or dog. The horse tapeworm is relatively small, varying in size from three to eight centimetres and resembles an Egyptian sarcophagus . They can cause colic in horses as their favourite location in the horses gut is at the junction between the caecum and the large intestine, if there is enough numbers they can cause a blockage. However, as with many parasites, tapeworms are becoming less of a problem due to the use of macrocyclic  lactone (or ML) drenches, not only do these drenches kill parasites but they can decimate the soil fauna such as dung beetles. The tapeworm requires the help of an intermediate host, the orbatid mite, if this mite is not present then there is no infection, even if a tapeworm positive horse comes to your property, if the mite is not present no other horses will be infected and the tapeworm in the positive horse will eventually all be expelled and the horse becomes tapeworm free. If a tapeworm positive horse releases infective segments in their dung and an orbatid mite comes along and does what feeding mites do, ingests an egg, this egg then develops to larval stage in the mite about twelve to fifteen weeks. A horse then grazing eats the infected mite and the tapeworm continue on it’s lifecycle for about six to ten weeks where it can start to shed infected segments.

Tapeworm near ileo-cecal valve. 

Roundworms, mainly found in foals but older horses can also be infected if the level of contamination in the paddock is high enough. The egg is highly resistant to everything and can remain in the ground not for days but months or years, so once a high level of contamination is present it can be a ongoing problem to get rid of it. The cycle from egg to mature adult can take up to fifty four days and the main problem caused by ascarids is the migratory pattern through the lungs. The adult parasite ends up in the small intestine and this is where it can cause trouble for foals as the intestine is fragile and can rupture easily if large numbers are present, adult horses have more structural integrity in their gut lining and not as likely to suffer the same fate, but large numbers of adult worms are also stealing nutrients required by the horse.

MYTH BUSTER 
Just because you can’t see any worms in the manure it doesn’t mean the horse doesn’t have them.

THE RESISTANCE PROBLEM 
So what do we do with this information? You would think that it would be an easy answer but you would be wrong. Various groups have been trying to get people to think about their parasite programs for years and years, with varying degrees of success. Once again social media, uniformed horse forums and owners who just think it’s easier to drench, have perpetuated myths and just bad advice on how to handle a worm problem in horses. So not only are people being misled by misinformed opinions but they continue to believe the “information” being put out by the veterinary companies producing anthelmintic wormers. The worm every 6 – 8  weeks or perish propaganda is still going strong in the horse community without any valid reason in many cases for such high levels of anthelmintic treatments. Present treatments have their place but must be used in conjunction with more targeted responses or the horse industry will end up like the sheep and cattle industries, rampant resistance to the anthelmintic in the parasites.
There are several ways that a correct program can be instituted that combines knowledge of the parasite problem, correct interventions or treatments (anthelmintic and herbal) that can provide owners with confidence.

1. TEST BEFORE YOU TREAT – a simple faecal egg count can be conducted on your horses to ascertain the actual problem. There are many laboratories conducting these tests and although the prices range it is a good diagnostic tool to determine if your horse needs to be treated. These tests can pick up strongyle and ascarid eggs easily and also tapeworm and pinworm eggs if the infection rate is high enough (some labs are better than others at detecting tape and pinworm eggs). If you have only a few horses per paddock it is an easy matter to test all the horses and then only strategically treat the ones with a treatable egg count. If you have a heavy stocking rate, you can use the horses as the test subject to see how wormy your paddock is, doing this you would only test a percentage of the horses in the paddock and treat accordingly. If the animals have a high count treat the lot and realise that that paddock is wormy and either spell or rotate into clean paddocks.  

Many horses have a natural resistance to worm burdens and testing shows these individuals usually have nil to very low worm counts. 

1. Refugia, this is the concept of leaving a certain amount of larvae to be retained by the animal. It works on the idea of a population curve, if you kill off all susceptible worms it only leaves the resistant ones and before you know none of the commercial products work and you may not be able to graze horses on those paddocks for many years or you have dead horses.

1. Rotation of anthelmintics, not changing brands but changing the anthelmintic family, from ML, such as Equimax to the benzimadoles, such as Strategy –T. This rotation can be used to slow down any resistance but anecdotal information tells of resistance in most families becoming a huge problem.

1. Use of natural feeding  – the VF Natural Diet provides a good basis for helping to keep worm

burdens low by promoting a healthy gut.Some of the feed items appear to inhibit worms – French white millet, boiled linseeds and fresh raw Garlic.The VF Natural Diet provides all the essential nutrients in the form of raw, natural feeds and herbs as well as providing preventive nutrition. This promotes disease resistance, prevents illness and disease and strengthens the immune system

1. Management – of your horse and pasture can play a huge role in delaying or saving you from a problem with full blown resistance in the worm population in your horse/s. Such as fencing off manure piles to prevent horses grazing around that area, harrowing paddocks to break up dung piles and expose the eggs to either  hot sun or freezing air to hopefully desiccate them so they die,  provide hay off the ground so that the horses are not “hoovering” the ground.  Ideally collect manure regularly from paddocks and yards and introduce dung beetles.  Remove bot eggs from horses’ legs with a bot knife regularly thus preventing from from getting into the stomach in the first place.  Dispose of eggs in the rubbish. The idea is to break the cycle of the worms and to provide owners with an outcome they have confidence in.

It can’t be stressed enough that testing before you treat in the long run will provide the horse community longer access to commercial treatments. Treating horses that don’t have an egg count because it’s due is as stupid as hoarding toilet paper because someone on social media said that we were all going to run out. If people actually think about the parasite and how they can protect their horses from over use of chemicals not to mention what these chemicals do to the soil fauna like dung beetles, both the horse and the owner will be better off.

RECOMMENDED PROGRAM
Our recommended program is to faecal test every 3 months, preferably at the beginning of each season.  This enables you to tailor your worming program to each individual horse.  Many horses never have worms at all, so don’t need to be given a worming product.  Horses with consistently very low counts don’t need to be given a worming product either.  Horses with medium to high counts need to be treated with an appropriate product to reduce the counts to very low or nil.
FAECAL TESTING & PRODUCT ADVICE SERVICE 
Kim Dawson is offering my clients inexpensive faecal testing at only $7 per horse – cheaper than a worm paste – as an incentive to join the program.
It’s easy to participate –   if you are an existing client email me and I will email you the chart to complete & return with faecal samples to Kim.  You will then be provided with a report by email, with copy to me, and product recommendation for horses that need treatment, both veterinary chemical products and VF herbal products will be advised, including dosage schedules, so you can make a choice.
If you are not an existing client – get your diet consultation at this link:
https://www.victoriaferguson.com.au/natural-horse-feed1/

ABOUT KIM DAWSON
Kim Dawson graduated from Hawkesbury Agricultural College with an Advanced Diploma in Grazing Animal Husbandry & has worked in endo & ecto parasitology in domestic livestock for over 33 years. In that time Kim was heavily involved in the research and development of many of the commercial parasiticides currently available. Kim has worked extensively in the equine field in both a laboratory setting and in the field & has designed, conducted and reported on these studies as well as authored and co-authored many articles.  Kim has advised Victoria Ferguson in her quest to find efficacious herbal wormers by conducting a number of in vitro and field worm trials.

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For anxiety, nerves, sleeplessness, stress and both long and short term situations where calm is required

Angela Davison

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“Hi Angela,

Angela Davison

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We all know smoke can be toxic and affect the lungs and respiratory tract. Smoke affects every living being, it can do damage before you realise it.

Horses should not be worked in smokey conditions, if they must work then keep it to low exertion over minimal time. If they’re worked hard then they may do irreparable damage to the lungs. I see many horses with breathing problems when we have little air pollution so please keep this in mind.

Quite a number of fabulous firies have benefited from my herbal concentrate Cough it Up, others have done well with Wheeze Ease. Both Cough it Up and Wheeze Ease are suitable for humans as well as horses, dogs and any other critters. (You won’t start whinnying if you take these products – I promise!)

So what’s the difference?

Cough it Up
– contains a powerful herbal expectorant (pulls rubbish up and out of the lungs and airways)                   
– bronchial vasodilator (makes it easier to breathe)                   
– boosts the immune system                   
– calms the cough reflex                   
– fights infection.

It’s the first thing to grab if you think you or your horse may be coming down with a cold or ‘flu.

Wheeze Ease
– for those who are affected by respiratory allergies or sensitivities which makes them wheeze.                       
– anti-allergen                       
– helps to eliminate toxins particularly from the upper respiratory tract.

I am reducing the regular price of both of these products by 15% for the remainder of January. Remember the quicker you treat any ailment the easier it is for the body to respond so not allowing the condition to become chronic.

Angela Davison

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Lungs and airways are being assaulted as we breathe the smoke laden air, particularly as the fires burn for extended periods of time in many areas.

Here are my quick tips on which herbs that can help you and your horse’s respiratory systems.

Aniseed – Pimpinella anisum. Aniseed relieves spasmodic cough, will help clear the lungs.

Echinacea – angustifolia or purpurea. Echinacea boosts the immune system and is indicated in all airways dis-eases like cough, cold, conjunctivitis, sinusitis, bronchitis.

Fennel – Foeniculum vulgare. Another useful herb which helps to clear excess mucus and rubbish from the lungs and airways.

Liquorice root – Glycyrrhiza glabra. (not to be confused with the confectionary which goes by the same name). Liquorice is anti-inflammatory and protects the mucus linings. It helps to open up the airways and relieves spasmodic coughing.

Marshmallow root – Althaea officinalis. Marshmallow root soothes and lines so will help to relieve cough and protect the airways.

Nasturtium – tropaeolum. Nasturtium leaves and petals are prized in Guatemala for relieving coughs and colds. Highly nutritious.

Thyme – Thymus vulgaris. Should be one of your first ‘go to’ herbs for any respiratory problems. It will clear any infections in the airways as it contains antibacterial, antifungal, antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. It heals sore throats, colds, coughs.

How to use:
If you have any or some of the herbs above growing in your garden or nearby then put a good handful into a teapot or stainless steel saucepan, pour over water that is just off the boil, (4-6 cups full), and let stand. Humans can drink it as a hot or cold tea, for horses, wait until its cold and pour a cup full, including the herb itself, over the feed. For horses who are smoke affected do this 2-3 times daily for a few days and then reduce to 1-2 times a day for at least 3 weeks for best results.

Making tea with any herb releases all the water soluble properties into the water so those properties are instantly available to you or your horse rather than having to go through the digestive system.

You can also add raw Australian honey for its soothing and healing properties. (be sure to source pure, raw local honey as many supermarket bought honeys are not pure, and are certainly not raw).

 If you don’t have access to any fresh herbs then either go to your qualified herbalist who will make you a good brew or purchase good quality dry herbs from your health store or reputable dry herb business. Do not rely on culinary herbs from the supermarket for any medicinal value.

For the horses, it’s a good idea to give one or a combination of these herbs if they have been in smoke areas even if you can’t see any respiratory symptoms. Remember the old adage ‘a stitch in time……’

If you only have one herb to use then make it Thyme officinalis.

And, if you want the ease of using a pre-prepared treatment, my unique herbal mix Cough It Up could help.

Stay safe everyone, and take care.

Angela Davison

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“4 years ago I started immunizing my open winning barrel horse Tyrone Howdy Cowdy aka “Bucky” for Hendra. Over the next 12 months he gradually stopped winning and developed a dry, intermittent cough.

The cough progressed to a wheeze and within 3 years – I had a horse who I couldn’t even ride down the road. I had tried repeated veterinary interventions which initially helped but he became resistant within 2 treatments. I tried salt therapy, multiple cough mixtures, oils, massage, chiropractics etc etc. Last year he almost died from a respiratory/asthmatic event and I resolved we were done.

Then I found Angela. I called and we discussed the history. Angela was upfront from the start and said given it started with the vaccination – there was no guarantee her treatments could be successful. However, she said we could give it a whirl and reassess as we go but I would need to commit to 15 weeks. We had nothing to lose so I agreed and sent a hair sample.

The result from the first sample confirmed what I had been seeing and helped me adjust his feed to suit his healing. 15 weeks later – I had a horse who had not coughed or wheezed for 3 months; my fingers and toes were firmly crossed!

I started to ride him; and Angela completed his final hair test; she sent me an emergency kit just in case but his was now on his own.

18 weeks since his first treatment and he was big, strong, sound and very happy. He was able to gallop for 30 seconds, run stop and turn around. 6 months after his first hair test I put him back on drums.

The challenge was always going to be the traveling and hot dry dust during spring/summer competition. We spent 2 weeks away in the dust in northern NSW this month. After a week, he coughed during work – I treated him as planned and the cough was controllable. We headed south and entered “Barrels for Bianca” where he finished in the 1st division against over 50 horses.

To put it into context; in the 2 week period we holidayed before his race he traveled over 30 hours in the trailer and lived in dry dirt yards in 30 + degree heat. It has been 4 years since he has been able to do that. I finally have my horse back.

Thank you Angela!” – Veronica Luxford and Bucky

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When Karen contacted me she had owned Frankie, a 9 year old Quarterhorse gelding, for 2 years.  She bought him from a woman who had owned him for 3 years, who in turn had bought him from a stock station for her daughter to ride. The daughter quickly lost interest so Frankie had been turned out onto large scrubby, drought affected land with some cattle.

Karen was interested in Frankie as he was quite well bred and she wanted to campdraft him.

Karen told me that Frankie was in a poor state when she got him, so she set about cleaning him up; feeding, worming, teeth done, chiropractic check and then introduced some light work. He seemed pretty quiet, and all was going OK.

As time went on he seemed to be more and more resentful, he didn’t want to go forward, his ears were often pinned back. Karen took him to a trainer who had him for 4 weeks, and then advised her to sell him. Over time Karen had her vet check him out and do the usual diagnostics, nothing showed up but the vet gave him a course of ulcer treatment. Even though she noticed very little difference in Frankie, Karen wasn’t ready to give up on him.

It did seem to Karen that he was getting worse.

Frankie was napping, pig rooting, kicking, hard to girth up and rug, he was starting to scare her a little.  Karen sent him to another trainer who had a good name, particularly with stock horses. This trainer sent him home after a week and referred Karen to me for a hair assessment.  The trainer felt that clearly the horse had problems that no-one had been able to detect.

“Get him assessed, get him treated, then bring him back, “ he said.

Frankie’s story unfolded, becoming clear through the assessment process.

He’d had a good start up until 1-2 years of age then he had been affected by some sort of chemical spray which had left him with liver insufficiency. This was probably why he didn’t measure up to the hard work on the station.

During the hair assessment I found that his gut was underactive for approximately 2 years – this was when he was out on the scrubby pasture – then his gut became acidic in the 2 years prior to that. His gut wasn’t comfortable and periods of pain were increasing. Hence the girthiness, not wanting to be touched, not wanting to go forward, ears pinned, nippy.

Mentally/emotionally he had been switched off since he was 2yrs old, but he was doing the best he could. The ulcer meds would have helped on some level but they were just scratching the surface of Frankie’s imbalances.

Frankie’s nutritional ratings showed he was wheat intolerant – this is always significant. Wheat is an acidic grain, it can cause intestinal inflammation, damage to the gut membrane, behavioural issues and much more. Click here to read an indepth blog post on this topic.

NB: 99% of processed horse feeds contain some wheat or by product, this is often not listed on the ingredients label as unfortunately wheat intolerance in horses is still not a commonly accepted condition.

Karen had sought advice from the nutrionalist from one of the big feed companies what to feed Frankie when she first got him, and that advice would have been fine if his system hadn’t already been negatively affected by wheat.

What we did next was to start by removing all wheat and wheat by-products from Frankie’s feed.

The first half of his Herb/Flower Remedy extracts treatment which he tested out for indicated that his liver would be toning, doing a mild level of detoxing, reduce inflammation, soothe and heal the gut membrane. The Flower Remedies he chose let us know that he doubted himself, he felt gloomy much of the time, he felt ‘stuck’ as nothing was changing for him and he worried about himself.

I checked his progress in week 5 of the first 7 week treatment. He was already looking like a different horse, his coat was softer and starting to shine, his eye was brighter and he was calling to Karen when she approached with his mixture.

After the second half of his treatment he was moving like a different horse. The trainer was rapt, and Karen finally had the horse she could work with, who wanted to work with her.

Cranky Frankie became Fancy Frankie!   A smashing story of the changes top quality, tailor made, herbal products can make in a horse.

This case demonstrates the value of accessing and then treating at core level, rather than putting a repetitive band-aid on the symptom – get to the root of the problem and heal the horse. 

If you have a niggling feeling that something is not quite right, or you haven’t gotten to the root cause of particular problem, a Hair Assessment may give you the answers you’re looking for.  Click here for information on our process.

Angela Davison

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Angela had only been in practice treating humans for two years. All the medical and herbal books literature said don’t mess about with septicaemia, get to a hospital, but they had just been sent home!  She was at her wits’ end,  searching through notes and books from her Herbal Diploma Course.  Suddenly, she remembered some teachings by the eclectics from the early 1900’s in which they successfully treated all manner of really nasty infections.  Using this knowledge, Angela created a powerful Infection Mix (now marketed as Bug Buster) to try and boost her partner’s immune system and halt the rampant progress of this acute bloodstream infection.

‘I gave low ‘trigger’ doses every 10 minutes overnight and into the next day’  says Angela.  ‘By 10am he looked a little better in the eyes, his temperature – whilst still too high – was much lower than the prior evening. By 1pm he felt strong enough for me to help him to the shower. Removing the clothes I was astonished and excited to see sores with pustules had erupted all over his body. This felt like it was the toxins in his body making their way out through his skin.

I increased the time between doses to hourly, then two hourly and so on over the following two days, finally reduced to one dose morning and night which he remained on for ten days. His body was a mess with pus erupting out of small sores all over his skin (even in his ears!) but despite this he was feeling and looking better and better. His temperature was normal by the end of the first 24 hours of treatment.  By day 4 his skin had totally cleaned up and his former energy had returned.’

Bug Buster is an extremely powerful formula.  For some it has been the difference between living and dying. I have thousands of case histories demonstrating its effectiveness in ridding the body of all manner of infections, including a number of bone infections in horse, human and dog.

We now live in times where infections are becoming increasingly antibiotic resistant. Bug Buster can be used as a stand alone motivator and stimulant for the immune system and can also be used for 7-10 days after a course of antibiotics works as an active or preventative treatment.  Find out more here.

Angela Davison

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Shortlisted for the WEG Australian Dressage Team, this wonderful partnership have had wins at Grand Prix. Angela Davison (your very own Horse Herbalist) has been working with this lovely pair for some years now. Find out more about how Angela has helped them in this little video. You can read more about the products mentioned here.

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He started the day a little nervous (understandably) but settled quite well as she rode him all round the showground and in between the rings in the company of a friend. She tied him to the float, which he’d experienced several times at home, with his new mate and a haynet.

Disaster struck when the new mate was taken away. George panicked and broke away, madly galloping around the grounds until Amelia caught him. Once settled enough she loaded him onto the float and took him home.

The next day whilst riding in the paddock he spooked and she fell off. This was Amelia’s first fall from George, and didn’t help things as Amelia wasn’t the most confident rider to start with.

Joan told me that Amelia had used quite a few of the ‘calming’ products on the market for horses but none had the desired result for George, he was becoming more and more spooky, and increasingly unreliable when Amelia rode him.

Joan could see that Amelia was anticipating trouble as she went to ride and felt that Amelia was creating anxiety in George, as her own fears and worries transmitted to him through her body.

It sounded like the perfect scenario for both Horse & Rider to get some Settle Petal under their belts!  George and Amelia started on a course of daily Settle Petal for the next 6 weeks. George was to have a 2 week break from work to allow time for the treatment to start to calm him down whilst he was not under what he considered ‘pressure’. Angela requested that they ask Amelia’s coach to school and ride George for the first few days he was back in work and then the coach give Amelia several lessons in a row to build confidence all round.

Angela also suggested that they had The Horse Herbalist homeopathic formula Stage Fright or the flower remedy No More Fears on hand (for both horse and rider) to help them over the anxiety hump of the first few outings.

After about three months the pair went to another training day which proved to be a positive experience, confidence repaired in both horse and rider.  Amelia has continued her lessons with George working closely with her coach, and both are doing really well together as a partnership at competitions.

Find out more about Settle Petal, by clicking here.

Angela Davison

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