Recent content by anomaly

goodness how awful. have to say, i hero worship lucinda but wouldn't take another to one of her clinics. the sessions ask a lot of the horse and last for far too long and as a result horses end up making mistakes and frightening themselves. it just isn't reasonable to expect a horse to maintain...

first few fences come up quickly and are paralell to warm up so require strong riding if you're on a nappy one. fence 4 doesn't look it in pics but is well up to height/width and fairly meaty. there is an alternative to the trakehner at 5 though. first part of course is quite 'bitty' if that...

i have a whitaker with latex panels and love it to bits. gives a much more close contact feel than flock and really frees up the back muscles, but did take some getting used to (i couldn't sit to the canter at first!). have to say mine did give me some back pain initially as i was having to...

horrific, this is the stuff nightmares are made of. my sympathies. an awful way to go, but i expect that he was relieved for the end when it came, and he is at rest now so try to let that comfort, however small, help in some way. i suspect your friend knew her responsibility, didn't bother to do...

tacky? wtf?! i cringe inwardly every time a local semi-pro eventer rides past my yard without high vis sporting a dangling chin strap. the same person wont ride xc without his point 2....go figure. i would find his blatent vanity amusing if his yard weren't full of kids that hang on his every word.

I can get access to a huge range of scientific journals as a student so thought i'd provide an insight into some of the research thats been done on the subject. (Chitnavis et al.) There has been a marked fall (46 per cent) in the total number of admissions due to horse-related injuries...

sorry if my post came across badly, and if it inspired some loser to send nasty messages :( it wasn't my intention for things to get heated, i guess i was just trying to explain (badly) that theres often a flip side and that i suppose i can sympathise with the slightly blind optimism people...

serial lurker here, just wanted to say that these threads aggravate me. my BE record is utterly appalling, e'd at two consecutive events despite dropping down a level and having been in the top three at the unaff events i had done up to that point, reason: bad back caused by a slip, so entirely...