A big thank you to all the people who have replied and given us some very helpful advice and some positive action we can take.
Regards Pamela & Abby
Re Calmer - no, however previous owner use to give him magnesium which calms cattle so some horse owners use it to calm active horses but vet said wasn't proven to be effective with horses so we could stop using it which we have done in the past 2 wks. Did occur to us that maybe Mahli is...
No, does the same whether the ground is wet, dry, slippery, muddy etc. We live in NZ and all events and training are done on normal farm grass paddocks or grassed park areas and our farm where the pony lives is the same. It is such a shame as he is a beautiful jumper, never knocks a pole off...
My daughter is into 1 day Eventing at pre-training level and her 15 yr old Arab pony does great at dressage and has clear XC rounds but she is getting eliminated in the show jumping everytime.
1. When she first got Mahli in July last year he would complete SJ circuits no problem might...