Recent content by abitgreen

And the attack begins lol I honstely haven't made my mind up and (whilst I appreciate where you're all coming from) my daughter isnt interested in pony club. And yes, as always, I regret posting something on the forum - hence the different username to usual.

I appreciate the opinions and what's not making this any easier is the fact that various assosciates are saying 'do it' - to be fair to them (no offence to anyone obviously) they know us.

jemima I totally understand what you are saying, however (and my mistake, I dont think I made it clear in my OP) my partner will be doing 99% of the 'work' my daughter (when able) will kind of follow on behind what my partner has already done (if that makes sense)

But why?

I'm not worried about ruining the horse, partner has been involved in backing before and we've got several people around us that have much experience. As for daughters confidence, she laughs if something bucks with her, and she's fallen from 3 in the last 6 months: a 14hh on landing a jump, 16h...

OK, so here's the Dilemma.... Have been looking for a pony/horse for my daughter (primarily) she is 8 years old - a BIG 8 year old and always growing at stupid rate. We've considered loaning, but haven't found anything suitable and I think she'd out grow most things quite quickly, and TBH...