Recent content by Borntobeaprincess

Thanks for the advice, I will watch the girl ride her tonight to see if softening her hands makes any difference. I would hate to push my horse too far if she is in pain, just so difficult to know what to do. Physio coming up on Tuesday so have just decided to hack her out, walking only over...

Looking for a bit of advice, and I have had vet, physio and dentist and have contacted physio to come back up... 6 year old mare, was out of work for 6 months due to my ill health. I'm still not able to ride but have a lovely capable rider who started working with her 5 weeks ago. So first...

Not sure if they would travel out to Lanark but I would highly recommend the Niccol show team, Kimmy will school your horse at home, charges dependant on mileage. They have a website, they are based in Ayrshire.... My geography is awful so not too sure how far away their yard is to Lanark but...

I would do groundwork, personally I'm a huge fan of long reining over lunging as you can incorporate lateral movements and see how your horse looks like from the ground. With my youngster I found pole work helped immensely with my canter, I literally started off with asking for canter going...

Oops half a post, Could it be that the horse has come back into normal work a bit too quickly and might need more time to build up strength in back and back end? Personally I would try a physio first rather than vet if you suspect it's muscular

Does your horse behave the same way on the lunge? My horse had very tight glut muscles... Or Ass muscles. She was resistant to go into canter on 1 rein, and on the other rein would canter like tigger! Very resistant to going forward, after a couple of physio sessions I was told to long rein her...

Thanks for all the replies, I was just a bit surprised why she developed them at the age of 6 when she has never had them before 👍

I would try and get him back into work before you sell him. Only so you can increase the likelihood of finding him a suitable home. Just know from experience that the cheaper the horse is the more likely you are to get novices, or people wanting something for nothing. I'm sure you would...

Horses get turned out every day, summer and winter at Fordbank. There isn't a huge amount of grazing but it's well managed. The field you see on the train is the riding school ponies field, the school ponies go out at night and come in during the day, then the yard owner puts her horses out in...

I would increase feeds to several small feeds a day rather than 1 big one, if that's possible. I feed my tb Allen and Page Calm and condition, along with a good feed balancer (whatever one is one special at the tack shop) and fast fibre. Alfa Oil chaff is also great, high oil content so quite...

A lovely riding horse type. Or if it's just local stuff she would do well in ridden horse and riding club horse. I think she is too light for a hunter class, but working hunters tend to be all shapes and sizes so she would do well in those. If it's local level a snaffle is fine, once you get...

For my TB I feed her ad lib haylage, try not to give her too much hard feed as it can fry her brain! I feed her fast fibre, calm and condition and a feed balancer. If I need a little extra I give her Alfa Oil chaff. I try to avoid all cereals, keep feeds low sugar, low starch because of risk of...

My oldie is out during the day in the winter and stabled at night, and in the summer out overnight and stabled during the day. So I fed her the fast fibre whilst she was stabled. Not so easy when you have others in the field, hopefully you can get something sorted for you pony I've added a...

Yard 2 without a doubt! I too am a pregnant lady... 1 week over due and very grumpy about the fact I'm still pregnant 😤 I recently moved from an expensive competition yard to a cheaper and cheerful not quite as pretty livery yard. This is baby no 1 for me so have no idea how much my...

I moved yards a few months ago so maybe it's a change in the mineral content of the grazing? Thanks x