Recent content by Barngirl

I wonder if anyone can help me with some experience. I know a horse who has a egg sized growth on her vulva, protruding. She is under veterinary care but I am unable to ask questions about it. All I know is that it is a melanoma, it was not there in late March, it is on watch for changes and...

I got tickets very easily on-line this morning.

Hi, I am new to trying to get tickets for the Olympia Horse Show, and I can't tell from the website if you have to phone or if a booking on-line system becomes available when they are released. Can anyone advise please? Thanks.

Thank you to everyone who replied to this and gave me great insights. What I and the yard owner have decided is (with echoes of it ain't broke, don't fix it" from above) to just build on what this pony is really good at already and really just enjoy him as he is. And get more experience and...

So - I was always intending to come from the observation/"natural" sort of approach you are describing - but your reply has brought into the spotlight for me, the difference between that and the more "pushy" stuff - so thanks for that insight.

thanks very much, I am totally encouraged by the fact that she remembered you after 5 years!

Hi Everyone, I would be really grateful for some views on this. I am starting to learn some new stuff about horses - from a variety of sources - eg liberty, Monty Roberts etc. I have a share in a RS horse for one day a week, he is a classic, really reliable, 18 years old, won't spook at...

Thanks!

Thanks Shay, that is helpful - I will see how it goes and think also about what my expectations are.

Can I draw on your wonderful vast experience Please? I am 6 weeks into sharing a riding school pony. He is deemed the most rock solid of them all, yet he does everything I ask of him pretty well when we are riding. I spend about 4 hours on my one day a week, grooming, riding, ground work...

Thank you Shay for replying - it helped a lot. And just in time as I was on my way out to be with my share pony, and it made me feel much better, and I had a lovely time with him!

Hello Everybody, I would be grateful for some views and advice about how "normal" my little experience was, and how to steady my feeling of being "slightly troubled". Long story short - I joined a group lesson (first time) because I couldn't fit in my private that week. They put me on the...

Hi, I am glad to be here, and hoping that you will all help me learn more. I have been riding on and off for 10 years, but just recently become more involved. I have a lesson once a week, and have just started sharing a Riding School pony one day a week. And there are many times I...