Recent content by Annagain

I'd put them down under the straw. They'll draw the moisture through the straw and leave it as nice dry mattress topper so you'll have the best of both worlds.

I've always had chunky monkeys and my Ideal Event has fitted them all, same for my friend and her two. We've both managed to keep the same saddle even though we've had new (albeit very similarly built) horses.

When I lost Ebony, I went looking for another, if slightly bigger, Eb. He was 14.1 on tiptoes, a black Sec D. I went to see a 15.1, black Section D at a dealer's and he just wasn't for me, too quiet and backwards thinking. I said this to the dealer and he said, I've got just the one for you. Out...

This is lovely. He reminds me a lot of my Wiggy, same colouring (right down to the white back legs), star and, above all, kind face.

I think the best one I had was when I asked a car to slow down as he tried to overtake me and a very nervous girl from the yard as we approached a blind bend at about 40. He stopped on the wrong side of the road, right on the bend to hurl abuse at me. I could see over the hedge and there was a...

Same here, except we're down to the last couple of scoops so,whatever the problem is, it's a bit late for us! It would be handy to know when that batch left the factory as if it was after we bought that bag we'd know we're in the clear. Wig has hardly any so we've had this bag since well before...

If you get the OS maps app you can plot routes on them and then share them with other users. The other users can then view their journey against that route so they always know where they are on the route and will never get lost!

We've done this a few times and while we're happy with a larger field as we usually go as ayard group so the horses are used to each other, smaller paddocks are probably more versatile as a lot of people will be coming with friends where the horses don't live together so more, smaller paddocks...

No, my fat git gets nothing all year round! Well, a tiny handful of fast fibre to give him his joint supplement. It takes him 10 seconds to eat the whole lot he gets so little.

I've had my Ideal Event over 20 years. It's been on all 3 of the horses I've had since I bought it for Archie when I first got him. I always say I buy horses to fit my saddle and I'm only half joking. I do have a type but I've been very lucky it's fitted them all as I love it. When Wig came back...

Agree with this 100%.

14.1 (also a Sec D) on tiptoes and 5’6”. We were both 13 and I was 5’2 when I started riding him and even though I was a bit tall on him, he still carried me absolutely fine until I lost him very unexpectedly when we were 27. I didn’t stop growing until I was 22 and there was no way he was going...

Haha I saw that too and thought, "I bet that will end up on the cheeky posts thread". Especially because the work is managing a swimming pool. It's not even related (or close to, judging by the photo) to the land!

It probably will come the more cantering you do but if you want to help it along, a rider physio assessment certainly won't do any harm. There are lots of physios these days who treat horses and humans and look at the whole picture and establish what you both need to work on to help each other...

I managed my first before-work hack in months this week - only 20 minutes of walk (partly as my back is playing up and partly due to daylight/time) but these days are getting longer!