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I recently bought a new Neue Schule bit and in the standard booklet you get with them all there was some basic bitting advice. One of the items concerned horses with sensitive mouths maybe needing a bit change as often as every few weeks. My horse is the same but just alternate his small...

I used to find certain washing powders had the same effect. You could try using a different one and see if that helps.

I was told be a local vet that the bacteria that causes mud fever lives permanently on the horse. It is when the skin gets weakened/broken and the bacteria gets underneath that the problems start so wouldn't see any point in disinfecting. He also said that when people are 'too clean' and...

Don't wash off, brush dry mud off before turnout and spray with 'Canter Mane and Tail Conditioner' 2 or three times a week (which helps the mud not stick too hard and seems to help it dry quicker).

I had a Crown dressage saddle. It was just a rebadged Ideal Jessica.

I have long held the belief that implanting a foreign body (microchip) permanently in a dogs body might cause it's system to react to it in some cases?

Supertramp is 7??

http://www.breedingbritish.co.uk/woodlander-stud-stallion-day/ This article includes news that Woodlander Supertramp has been gelded ��

I've got a Platinum Royale and that has big knee rolls. Not as deep/big knee rolls as my Sue Carson Grand Prix but feel totally more secure and balanced in it (hence the change).

It's fashionable on the continent to add the first letter of the owners/breeders surname at the end of the horses name, I imagine to differentiate from other horses with the same name. So if your surname was Brown you would call a horse Valegro B for example.

Premier Equine seem to 'copy' a lot of other manufacturers products eg. Lemieux, Rambo. There's a reason why their products are a lot cheaper!

I had my Albion MTM (horse very straight in back). Depends on the model. It was only about £300 extra for MTM but well worth it !

I have DE55 AGE on my Horsebox �� Gives me a lot of pleasure ��

If its what you want, is relevant to you and means something do it. I found the perfect plate for a horsebox, then mulled it over for weeks before I bought it (2k). So glad I did and get lots of comments about it. I figured if I needed to I could always sell it in the future and would probably...

I started riding at the ripe old age of 26, bought my first horse at 28 (4yr old) and owned her for 23 years when she had to be PTS due to an injury sustained in the field. I did though have waiting in the wings a lovely youngster I bought as a yearling. I was 49 when I backed him myself at 3. I...