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I am trying to track down information on my mares maternal granddam. She is allegedly a tb called Hill Country but the only registered tb with that name is a stallion! I was told her registered name was Hill Country URM-HC (XX). She foaled to Downlands Hasadeur in 1989 a black filly who is...

One of my friends has a mare called Smellie - cos when she was a foal she was a dirty beastie! My husband used to ride a pony in the '60s called Gayboy - couldn't get away with that one now. Another friend has a lovely mare called Chicken - she's over 16hh. The local RS had a stallion called...

We bought just over 6 acres at auction 7 years ago for £34K, would have got it for £25K but the other bidders got auction fever (we became friendly with them over the years) The land faces south but steep and had no water or electricity. Have since built stables and had it valued 4 years ago...

Mine are all out and will be until the end of October hopefully. They are now wearing lightweight Wugs as the weather is not very kind at the moment and I don't want to start feeding too much yet just to keep them warm. If it warms up and dries out again (please let us have an indian summer)...

I cancelled my insurance with NFU last year. Had four horses with them but decided that as 4 x premiums and 1 x excess was over £1K per annum, it was better to put that money away just in case. Have third party through BHS Gold so covered that way.

According to Hilary Vernon's Bits and Bitting with the French Link "When the rein is used the mouthpiece wraps around the tongue allowing far more tongue room than an ordinary jointed snaffle, taking a lot of pressure off the bars of the mouth and not pointing into the roof of the mouth" With...

People will steal them off horses backs, there are lowlife out there who only think of what they can make out of it. A friend bought a new rug for her mare and used it straight away before postcoding it. Her horse was turned out with mine, all wearing post coded rugs and the new rug was stolen...

I am lucky enough after years of having horses in livery to now have my own land. One yard we kept the horses on stated all liveries with stables had to keep their horses in overnight from 01 September, irrespective of the weather. There were some days in the winter when they had to stay in...

I had my Appaloosa vaccinated against Strangles on 26 September and on 30 September he developed Laminitis in all four hooves. Before the vaccination he was fit and healthy, never had Lamintis and nothing in his regime had changed at all. He reacted to the vaccination with a swollen muzzle and...