Recent content by 3bh

Something that was drilled into me at age 18 when I got my BHSAI and thought I could take on the world (as you do at that age!) and is applicable to 99% of us, bar the select few at 4 star level.... no one will ever pay you to ride the nice horses. They'll pay you to ride the ones they don't...

Have PMed you!

You might not have had a colic or other negative outcome but in suddenly changing a feed you might as well shred the £5 notes and put them in your horses bedding. It takes a little while for gut micro-flora and bacteria to "adapt" to a new feed, to as it were train the enzymes to digest it. So...

I spoilt mine! I pay £17.50 per hour for BHSAIs, and £10 for BHSPTT. Teaching groups of 4-6 children, no private lessons as I do these myself. (I'm a BHSII) They teach between 2 and 6 hours a day, repeated a couple of days a week. I think this fairly reflects what they have invested into...

Can't help but feel that any cheap brushes can get an "amazing" shine on a coat if a traditional (dare I say old fashioned!) 45 minute thorough grooming is done daily. I think they have an excellent PR and marketing team!

Hi EmmasMummy. I'm manager of a PC centre, I'm sure HQ will answer your query more correctly but I'll have a go, if I've interpreted your message correctly! If you are looking at membership for your daughter, and she's going to be riding the centre ponies in their activities, just a normal...

Ponies is or used to be held under the PUK banner and an entirely different competition: http://www.poniesuk.org/miniburghley.asp

As many others have stated, the ROR Racehorse to Riding Horse series and the Search for a Star series are entirely different, goverened by different rules. The only similarity is that both events are sponsored by SEIB, and thus held on the same day at the same venue. RoR is an open HOYS...

Fiona Davidson eventing would be my first contact, based at Vale View.

Riding school inspections are by appointment as we have to have every horse in, groomed and tacked up for the inspecting vet who gives each horse a basic vetting - heart, eyes, soundness. And he brings with him the H&S bod from the council who does the grounds, machinery, fire risk assessment...

My geography is not good, sorry - I am completely the other side of Leicestershire to you, but Arena UK might be easy accessible? And keep going up to Newark, havent been for years but Trent Valley used to be good for trailblazers and unaff events

Dressage on grass, SJ on a surface. Its my favourite venue, I was about to enter on line when the bloody horse (TB!) twisted a shoe sinking a toe clip in his sole and earned himself some unpaid leave!!! The Dr is very quiet, you have a lovely large warm up and go into a seperate field for the...

At "county level" - by which I guess you mean affiliated, you cannot register or show as a riding horse and a hunter in the same season. A horse has to be one or the other.

If the horse has raced flat or NH in the UK you can enter any RoR competiion.

Your schooling and production of her is what shows her off to the ride judge. All that considered, looking at your other thread also you haven't yet mentionned conformation - the schooling and presentation is secondary to type.