After a pause while HorseGrooms focused on growing its educational platform and global community, The HorseGrooms Podcast is back.
Starting August 1, 2026, HorseGrooms will once again bring listeners practical conversations about horse care, horsemanship, and the people behind the horses.
Horse Care and Horsemanship
Hosted by HorseGrooms founder Dinette Neuteboom, the podcast is rooted in the grooming community and created for everyone who is passionate about excellent horse care and horsemanship. Professional grooms remain at the heart of every episode, while veterinarians, farriers, nutritionists, riders, trainers, researchers, barn managers, and other equestrian professionals will join the conversation to share the knowledge, experiences, and ideas that help horses thrive and strengthen the people who care for them.
“We’ve always wanted the podcast to become another educational platform for HorseGrooms,” says Neuteboom. “Over the past two years we’ve been busy building the community, expanding our educational content, organizing MeetUps, launching webinars, and growing HorseGrooms. Bringing the podcast back felt like the natural next step. It gives us the opportunity to have longer conversations, explore important topics in more depth, and learn directly from some of the best horse people in our industry.”
What Listeners Can Expect
The HorseGrooms Podcast will feature practical, educational, and honest conversations about topics including:
- Horse care and stable management
- Groom life and career development
- Horsemanship
- Traveling with horses
- Horse welfare
- Mental health in the equestrian industry
- Leadership and teamwork
- Products, research, innovation, and technology
- Entrepreneurship and life after grooming
- Honest conversations about improving the industry
Some episodes will celebrate the incredible work professional grooms do every day. Others will tackle difficult topics or explore new ideas that can help create healthier horses, stronger teams, and more sustainable careers.
While You’re Mucking Out
We’ll aim to keep most episodes about the time it takes to muck out a few stalls, do the waters, and sweep the aisle. Long enough to dive into a topic, but short enough that you’ll probably finish the episode before it’s time to take out your earbud, tack up the first horse, or catch up with your rider.
Of course, sometimes we won’t be able to stop asking questions and an episode might run a little longer. If that’s the case, you may have to finish listening while hand grazing a horse, cleaning tack, or doing another job that leaves one ear, free. (Just promise us you’ll only wear only one earbud so you can stay aware of what’s happening around you and around your horse.)
Insiders Q&A
And if we still have more to talk about than we can fit into one podcast episode, we’ll invite our guests to continue the conversation with a live Q&A inside HorseGrooms Insiders, our online community where horse care professionals from around the world come together to learn from industry experts, ask questions, share experiences, and continue the conversation. As a bonus, you’ll get to see our guests on camera too.
Want to see if HorseGrooms Insiders is for you? Click here for more information.
A Strong Lineup From The Very Beginning
Several outstanding guests have already agreed to join the podcast and some recordings have already taken place.
Sue Schlegel
Sue Schlegel, longtime U.S. groom for John and Beezie Madden, will share her approach to horse care at the highest level, traveling internationally with horses, and reveal her famous tack-cleaning tip.
Lou Beudin
Lou Beudin, Katie Dinan’s longtime French groom, will take listeners behind the scenes as she prepares Out of the Blue SCF for the World Championships in Aachen. From the long road toward a major team championship to the daily care, management, and attention to detail required at the highest level of the sport, Lou will share what it takes to help a horse and rider reach one of the biggest goals in show jumping.
Denise Moriarty
Denise Moriarty, longtime Irish groom for Kent Farrington, will discuss life at one of the world’s most successful show jumping operations, horse care at the top of the sport, and the teamwork behind championship performances.
Kristen Chandler
Kristen Chandler, the highly respected American manager of Darragh Kenny’s Oakland Stables, will take listeners behind the scenes of one of the largest and most successful show jumping operations in North America. From managing more than 80 horses and a large team of grooms, trainers, veterinarians, and farriers to overseeing logistics, staffing, horse care systems, and championship preparations, Kristen will share what it really takes to keep a world-class operation running smoothly.
Sonja Ochadlik
Sonja Ochadlik, an all-around American horsewoman based in Ireland, will share her personal story about mental health problems in the equestrian industry. Together we’ll discuss how the horse industry can better support one another and create healthier, more sustainable careers.
Nora Bilancioni
Nora Bilancioni, former Swedish professional groom and author of HorseGrooms’ A Groom’s Truth Unfiltered: The Pain Behind the Passion, will reflect on both the beauty and the difficult realities of grooming while discussing her mission to advocate for better working conditions for grooms.
Lucie Kostecka
Lucie Kostecka, a freelance groom from the Czech Republic and founder of EQQU, will talk about the differences between the European and American grooming world, the advantages and challenges of freelancing, contracts and business practices, and how her own entrepreneurial journey led her to create EQQU, an app for buying and selling used tack.
Natalia Zoi of Ippos Pro Consulting
Natalia Zoi, co-founder of Ippos Pro Consulting, which helps equine businesses build stronger teams, smarter operations, and more sustainable businesses, will join us to discuss how structure, support, and strategy can transform a stable. From leadership and employee engagement to operational systems and horse welfare, this episode is full of practical ideas for stable owners, managers, trainers, and grooms.
This is just the beginning.
More guests will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Proudly Presented By Horcery
HorseGrooms is proud to welcome Horcery as the first Presenting Sponsor of The HorseGrooms Podcast through November 1, 2026.
Horcery’s AI-powered Stall Monitor gives horse people another set of eyes on the horses in their care through live video and intelligent alerts. The system can notify owners, grooms, and barn managers when something out of the ordinary happens, helping them respond more quickly when every minute counts. Throughout the first season, guests will also share their thoughts on how technology can complement good horsemanship and support horse welfare.
“We’re incredibly excited to welcome Horcery as the very first presenting sponsor of The HorseGrooms Podcast,” says Neuteboom. “HorseGrooms and Horcery share a passion for improving horse care. Innovation should never replace great horse people, but it can become another valuable tool that helps grooms provide the very best care.”
Podcast listeners receive a 5% discount on any Horcery system with coupon code HORSEGROOMS05. Check out Horcery’s website and products here, and don’t forget to use the discount code. If you are in Traverse City, MI, for the summer, you can even try out their system for a couple of weeks (until mid September 2026)!
Produced By The Equus Radio Network
The HorseGrooms Podcast is professionally produced by the Equus Radio Network and will be available on all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.
Being part of the Equus Radio Network means podcast sponsors benefit from exposure beyond the HorseGrooms audience alone. Episodes and advertising are supported by Equus’ extensive podcast, radio, television, and streaming network, helping partners reach an even larger community of horse enthusiasts.
Advertising Opportunities
With the return of the podcast comes a new opportunity for companies to connect with one of the horse industry’s most engaged, but underserved, audiences.
Affordable advertising and sponsorship opportunities are now available, including presenting sponsorships, episode sponsorships, interview sponsorships, pre-roll and mid-roll advertisements, and integrated sponsor messages.
Companies interested in advertising on or sponsoring The HorseGrooms Podcast can contact HorseGrooms at headgroom@horsegrooms.com to learn more about the available opportunities.
Stay Updated
The first new episode will be live on August 1, 2026.
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Let Us Know Your Thoughts, Tips, and Guest Requests
Whether you’re a professional groom, rider, trainer, veterinarian, horse owner, barn manager, student, or simply passionate about excellent horse care, we’d love to have you along for the journey. Let us know what you think about the podcast and send us your guest requests or other tips and ideas you have. Email to headgroom@horsegrooms.com.
The HorseGrooms Podcast; Exploring the world of horse care, horsemanship, and the people behind the horses.
HorseGrooms is a platform of resources, education, and support for grooms by grooms. This is an online community, hub of resources, and spotlight of industry highlights born out of love for the horse and love for the sport. But our mission goes beyond simply providing resources and creating content.
Our goal is to create a space to keep horsemanship alive; for grooms to support and educate each other; and to help advance the craft of grooming. HorseGrooms is dedicated to ambitious grooms everywhere.
