Victoria Haigh

English woman training flat horses in France. Based in Maisons Laffitte, Paris.

[Equidia @equidia]

🥹 "Ça fait 50 ans que je travaille comme un malade et j'y arrive, c'est un rêve !"

🩷 Ému aux larmes 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗱, éleveur de 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿, a du mal à réaliser que c'est le 2⃣ ème gagnant du Qatar Prix du Jockey Club qu'il élève

[irishracing.com @irishracing]

The behaviour and conduct of Irish Sales Staff hit the headlines this week after rumours circulated from the Arqana Breeze Up Sale. The Irish Angle team share their views. 🤯

[Emma Berry @CollingsBerry]

Gstaad as a foal with his breeder Kelly Thomas. Congratulations to all @maywoodstud. Another triumph.

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

Well done Kelly 👏

[TDN @theTDN]

GSTAAD is all class 🏆 A Royal Ascot and Breeders' Cup winner at 2, now a Classic winner at 3...

The 3-year-old son of Starspangledbanner, trained by Aidan O'Brien, won Saturday's G1 Tattersalls Irish 2,000 Guineas at The Curragh Racecourse. Gstaad covered the mile in race-record time, eclipsing the previous best of Desert Prince's in 1998.

"He's got such a big, extravagant action that he just takes a while to get really opened up and use it. Once he did that, he was impressive and we'll roll onto Ascot now," said jockey Ryan Moore.

Winner of the 2025 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar, Gstaad finished second in the G1 Betfred 2000 Guineas Stakes last time out. He has won four of his eight career starts and has yet to finish out of the top two.

Bred by Maywood Stud, Gstaad is owned by Derrick Smith, Mrs John Magnier & Michael Tabor. @coolmorestud

Read more: https://t.co/hge6g7PKJR

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

@asecretagent well done Emma. Breeding a winner is a different level!!

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

I have struggled financially. Sell my daughter?????? What is this sicko taking??? God help our children.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

The BBC is running a story trying to pull at our heartstrings for starving fathers in Afghanistan who are ready to sell their young daughters just to buy food.

One man weeps while holding his seven-year-old twins, saying he'll sell one to feed the rest. Another already sold his five-year-old.

I don't care how hungry I get I would never do this. Not in a million years.

These beautiful, innocent little girls are being treated like goods to be traded by the very men who are supposed to protect them.

Instead, they're guarded by monsters.

Poverty and hunger are horrific, but selling your own child isn't an "impossible choice" it's a moral failure.

The BBC can frame it as tragic desperation all they want, but we should be disgusted and outraged for the daughters, not feeling sorry for the fathers willing to do this.

These children deserve real protectors, not men who see them as a survival asset.

Absolutely sickening

[Willie Mullins @WillieMullinsNH]

Today we bid farewell to the incredible Energumene as he sets off on his next adventure and settles into his new home 💙

[Jim @RacingJim92]

🇫🇷 Willie Mullins French Recruits:

A thread of the latest FR recruits on their way to Closutton..

RTs & like Appreciated👍

[At The Races @AtTheRaces]

"I couldn't buy a ride in a Point-to-Point at home!"

After guiding Bon Garcon to a second-place finish in the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris on Sunday, Charlotte Prichard spoke to @KfordCailler...

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

@NataliePage They don't understand

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

The next step is for Nathalie to give her book to all the children (now adults) who were taken from their mothers

[Natalie Page @NataliePage]

The System Is The Weapon was a risky, tough, and emotional book to write.
I hope every mother who reads this feels seen and heard. This is our story.
These reviews make it all worthwhile! Thank you so much ❤️
Here's a sneaky preview of the paperback!

https://t.co/mg6iJeOnan

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Sprinting away would also be acceptable.

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

TRIFLE!!!! LOOKS AMAZING.
I miss my trifle here in France

[James Savage @sav2701]

@yorkracecourse always raise the bar when it comes to Racing Staff hospitality 👌

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

I absolutely know how this woman feels. The same happened to me 130 years later!!!!!

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In May 1860, she kissed her six children goodbye. She thought about the dinner she would cook later. She thought about the laundry. She thought about the quiet life of a mother in Illinois.

She had no idea that when the front door clicked shut, it would stay locked for three long years.

Her husband, Theophilus Packard, was a respected minister. To the neighbors, he was a man of God. But inside their home, he was a man who could not stand a wife who thought for herself. Elizabeth Packard liked to read.

She liked to debate religion. She had her own opinions about life and faith. In the 19th century, for a woman to have a brain was considered a danger.

Theophilus decided to end the argument once and for all. He didn’t need a crime. He didn't need a witness. In those days, the law in Illinois said a man could commit his wife to an insane asylum without any evidence or a public hearing. He simply had to say she was "disturbed."

One morning, a group of men arrived at her home. They didn't listen to her logic. They didn't care about her tears. They dragged her away to the Jacksonville Insane Asylum. Elizabeth was 43 years old, perfectly sane, and suddenly a prisoner.

When she entered the asylum, she expected to see people who needed medical help. Instead, she found a warehouse of "inconvenient" women. There were wives who had argued with their husbands about money. There were daughters who refused to marry men they didn't love. There were women who were simply too loud or too independent.

"This is not a hospital," Elizabeth realized. "It is a cage for the unwanted."

The doctors tried to break her spirit. They told her that if she just admitted her husband was right and she was wrong, she could go home. They wanted her to say she was crazy for wanting her own thoughts. Elizabeth looked them in the eye and said, "I cannot buy my liberty by a lie."

She didn’t give up. Instead, she started to write. She hid scraps of paper in the linings of her clothes. She tucked notes under floorboards. She recorded every abuse, every scream in the night, and every story of the women around her. She became a secret journalist inside a living nightmare.

After three years, she was finally released, but her husband locked her in a room at home. He planned to move her to another asylum in a different state. This time, Elizabeth’s friends helped her get a message to a judge.

A trial was finally ordered to determine if she was actually insane.

The courtroom was packed. Theophilus was confident. He brought "experts" to say that her religious doubts proved her mind was broken. But then, Elizabeth stood up.

She didn't shout.

She spoke with the calm power of the truth. She explained her beliefs. She showed the jury that having a different opinion is not a disease.

The jury only needed seven minutes. They came back with a single word: Sane.

Elizabeth walked out as a free woman, but she found that her husband had taken everything. He had sold their furniture, taken her money, and disappeared with their children. She was alone and penniless.

Most people would have disappeared into the shadows. Elizabeth did the opposite. She spent the next forty years traveling the country. She stood before the legislature and demanded new laws.

She said, "A woman's mind is her own, and the law must protect it."

Because of her, states changed their laws. They made it illegal to lock a person away without a fair trial and a medical exam. She turned her private pain into a public shield for thousands of other women.

She proved that even if you take away a woman’s home, her money, and her children, you can never truly take away her voice.

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[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

@DrJessTaylor The CAFCASS officers involved in my case were Satanic narcissists!!!! Hardly human! Adored seeing my child and myself suffer extreme distress!!! And told the judge I was histrionic!!! Definitely DID NOT ACT in the best interests of my daughter

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

Exactly!!! Family Court is not a truth finding court-it is a risk management court where the risk is shifted to the protective parent (mother in most cases). I investigate this on my YouTube channel #mothersnaturechannel https://t.co/wshPdJMRiE

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

I’m sorry but it’s about time people realised the ‘risk assessment tools’ don’t work.

DASH. CSE. Vulnerability. They are all terrible.

I wrote and taught about this constantly between 2016 and 2021 - five years of writing articles, reports, letters, posts, training etc which explained in detail why DASH and CSE risk tools do not work.

There have been many academic reviews and explorations of both the DASH and CSE tools dating back to 2016, and I personally sent those findings to leaders in the sector but no one wanted to hear it. No one responded. No one wanted to accept that their checklists might be flawed.

If anything it saddens me that it takes this long for common sense to cut through the facade, the laziness, and the obsession that has been created that we can assess risk of DV, murder, stalking, exploitation and child sexual abuse using a quick ticklist.

Tools like this will ALWAYS fail. It’s not just the system around the tool that is at fault here, the tool itself is significantly flawed and we have known this for nearly a decade.

The decision to ignore all the evidence was due to convenience. No one wanted to withdraw the tools and admit they didn’t work, because the alternative was creating a holistic and effective assessment.

Finally, and I will write more on this, the main issue the tools fail is because they hyper focus on the victim and not the perpetrator. The risk cannot be assessed in the victim, as the victim is not posing the risk or escalating the risk. The hyperfocus on the victim and the total lack of proper risk assessment of the perp, perp history, perp behaviour and tactics of abuse is the real problem with these tools.

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

You said it all Jess!! I lost my daughter in family court over 15 years ago (still no sign of her returning, but no wonder after destroying her bond with me) look at my deep dive investigation #familycourtuk #childprotection @mothersnaturechannel https://t.co/wshPdJMRiE

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

Obviously this is horrific - but can we also broaden the discussion to the fact that many regulated and registered experts are causing the exact same outcomes with virtually no consequences?

Many of the women I hear from who have had dodgy psychiatric and psychological reports drawn up against them in family court were written by perfectly qualified and registered professionals who essentially just did not believe them about being raped or abused.

Further, it has often been a result of ‘expert shopping’ to get the desired outcome the team wanted (usually a specific diagnosis or report of risk).

The reality is this: expert witnesses are not witnesses at all - and should not be making any comments on whether they believe abuse or rape has occurred or not, but they do this often.

They also shouldn’t be able to diagnose someone during a traumatic and stressful child proceedings case at all - regardless of what side they are on - which actually aligns with NICE guidelines on trauma and assessment. The psych assessments used in family court are highly variable and problematic for endless reasons - not least that some of them read like they have been copied and pasted over numerous cases, contain factual errors, and even contain accusations and labelling of victim of abuse that are appalling to read.

Psychiatry is being successfully weaponised in family courts - whether it’s ‘pseudoscience’ or established psychiatric diagnoses - I’ve seen far too many cases where professionals have diagnosed mothers with personality disorders and delusional disorders when they were merely raising concerns about their own safety or the safety of their kids - and were often following guidance they were explicitly given by police or social workers.

The real discussion here is much bigger than this one woman (whilst I acknowledge that it’s outrageous someone with no qualifications should be able to have this much power over someone’s life) - I think the real conversation is about the way the family court process is totally captured by dodgy and dangerous use of psychiatry and psychology, whereby diagnoses and assessments are not conducted in the best interests of anyone - and are usually used tactically to either frame someone as dangerous, back up a foregone conclusion, or claim that abuse disclosures are lies.

These things are happening every single day by regulated psychologists and psychiatrists and judges hang on their every word despite them often being easily disputed.

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

We still have a long way to go!!
Women fought for independence and that's the reason for their murder. We will never win in this Patriarchal world

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

He didn't "lose his temper". He didn't "fly into a rage". He wasn't "jealous". There's no point "looking into why he was so angry". There's no reason except this:

He was a man exerting the ultimate control over a woman who tried to leave him.
https://t.co/FlglkQVK9S

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

Incredible

[Racing Post @RacingPost]

What a week it's been for Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore 👏

🏆 Cheshire Oaks (Listed)
🏆 Chester Vase Stakes (Group 3)
🏆 Dee Stakes (Listed)
🏆 Ormonde Stakes (Group 3)
🏆 Huxley Stakes (Group 2)
🏆 Oaks Trial Fillies' Stakes (Listed)

[Victoria Haigh @HaighVictoria]

@jess_stafford_ @BarodaStudIre @InfoArqana @NatStudStallion Well done!!