Recent content by celeste-izzy

I'm sorry to hear this. It really comes down to your own preference. I've held many for the gun, it's instant for the horse but more traumatic for owners. Infact I held my pony which id had for 20 years when her time came. I have witnessed a couple go by the injection, and in comparison I'd...

I worked as a groom for 12 years. Worked for some amazing riders, groomed at CDIs, rode some equally amazing horses. I moved closer to home after 8 years, found qhat seemed like a good place to be - worked into the ground, rode some very dangerous horses without prior knowledge from employer...

I've not watched it, nor do I intend too. However, the majority of trainers and grooms really care for these horses. It's the owners who decide to send them to auction, not the trainers. I think these owners need to take responsibility for where their horses may end up. I also think we should...

Do they hook onto a surface as they do it? In which case it would be crib biting. I've got one who does it, never affected his performance. His dam did it so it became a learnt behaviour for him, so worth checking how long and where it started. Some people will say issues with colic or ulcers...

Yes it's fibre based so should be fine. We've all seen our horses hoon around the field, get incredibly sweat then start munching on grass and be absolutely fine

I don't think you should consider selling him, he's baby and babies have blips. The change in behaviour is most likely his confidence, if he picks up you're heart rate is slightly higher etc he won't feel as relaxed. Given his height, I don't think hopping on and pottering him around for now...

Sounds like we have a very similar horse! I've not read all your posts, however are both your boys front legs even? You mention about how he walks/lands. Mine has navicular both fronts, worse on the right. Interestingly his right leg is different from the long pastern down - unless it was...

I don't hack mine at all. Their work is varied throughout the week and if I want to go for a bumble or let them go for a bit of a gallop I use our spare field. They enjoy that as much as they did hacking out. I do miss hacking, but the risks near me were too great and I wasn't prepared to put...

It's been a few years since I did my business degree so bare with me! Can you provide a solid cash flow for the business for the next 5 years? You'd need to basically guesstimate how much you'd make, how much it would cost to keep it on the road (lorries have a wonderful habit of breaking), and...

Ha no! I'd come off nights, scanned through and thought oh....theyve appeared. Hard to say which is which, but they've both been very active on FB recently. Eurodressage also wrote a report about Elite Stallions, I didn't bother to read it.

In case anyone hasn't figured it out yet, both Anna and Lorna have made accounts to try and justify on here what happened.