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As long as all pain related avenues have been covered would it be worth getting the instructor to try and ride her at a competition or arena hire and seeing if they can work her through it?

He's been trotted up by the vet almost monthly since he had that chip removed, he's 100% fully sound to the point that my vet is starting to audibly sign when he rocks up and I say 'nothing acute, just checking' 😂

Ahh ok, in that case I'll ping her a message - thanks both!

I have looked into it but any within an hour or me seem to be £70 or thereabouts, which I don't have spare right now. That's almost 2 lessons with instructor who would probably help 90% of the way within 10 minutes.. I may just have to suck it up and get her out for a one off to get us back on...

I will definitely give it a go, thank you! I haven't done a huge amount of canter 'schooling' with him yet after his surgery as I spent the first 2 months back ridden hacking mostly and then he had most of Nov/Dec off so he's not built back so much strength, so all I can say is he has a...

Goes beautifully on the lunge, had saddle fitter in Dec, equal on the flexion/lateral work when we do groundwork, has monthly physio/bodywork, goes beautifully at walk, it's definitely not a pain response I believe it's mostly tension both because that's always been our worse rein (read: I made...

Dex is rather 'stiff' on the left rein, I put quotations as he's not physically stiff as he he is equally mobile on both sides for his physio and is beautifully supple on both reins in walk, but when we go into trot he wants to automatically go into outside flexion and feels almost as if someone...

Dex started to eat fencing at the yard so I put him on a vits and mins supplement, only a cheap one, and it stopped - recently took him off to see if it was a fluke and YM reported him back to eating fencing so back on it he goes. I know you say you feed a balancer but unless you feed it at the...

Mine is made of bamboo as the often tend to be so they're rigid and hard, I have tapped Dex on the shoulder with it if he has had a moment in the road, I wouldn't use it as a normal crop. Then again, I don't use a whip with Dex, never have as he doesn't need it, so it would be 0-100 in terms of...

Are you soaking the re-leve? I believe there was a large spate of horses choking on it as the instructions were unclear at one time

I would have thought the US would be the play, although I guess you wouldn't fly him before he's sold, but he'd likely be worth the most there from what I have seen of their market

Everything crossed OP, let us know how you get on!

I am in Sussex, we had a Christmas day call out for colic including the call out, examination and drugs the bill was less than £250 - maybe our vets have a more reasonable call out than most, it's not a small one, it's the local vet hospital

I feed a scoop of Dengie Meadow Lite - that's it. It's only to put his supp in and so he doesn't batter the door at feed time 🤣

I do feel for her. She evidently fell foul of not having enough business accumen when setting the thing up in the first place, from what I've seen she has trained him with great care and a light hand and now she has had the rug pulled from under her feet (fairly) but she doesn't now see him as...