Recent content by Charmel

is this even for novelty classes?

My Granddaughter is just two and is tiny. She has a lovely welsh x shetland pony. The pony is 10.2 and lw and dainty not chunky at all and they look adorable together. Millie is happy in walk and her trot is almost there. I want her to enter some local unaffiliated lead rein classes and novelty...

I have a 12.2 welsh pony that refuses to be caught in the field. I have had him 21 years and have always had a problem on every yard I have ever been on, worse in nice weather with lots of grass but still bad in bare field in the rain. Now I am on my own yard I get every other horse in first and...

I had road plannings laid followed by woodchip and it works perfectly well. what used to be a muddy area between stables now is a great turnout for fat ponies or horses convalescing.

Had over 100 tons in the end delivered spread and rolled but this has been down 18 months and even with the very wet weather last winter, it rides better than most of the professional surfaces I have seen. It hasn't needed a top up yet but will top up late summer. It is really good surface with...

will try and put photos on I am rubbish at it though...

Mine is 18hh 20inch xxw made to measure ideal saddle Extra full made to measure bridle 7ft 6 rugs (bit snug) 54" girth Extra full Tendon Boots Goes through a round bale of haylage every week plus 2 feeds a day. Not a chance would he fit in 3.5 tom lorry...I have to travel him alone in my...

My biggest is an 18h ISH but before him I thought of my TB at 16.3 as pretty big, though my Welsh 15.2 feels bigger than the TB. Now with an 18h horse I genuinely understand riding a BIG horse/ It has pluses and minuses though. He costs a lot to feed and loses weight quickly if not maintained...

Previously I had a local farmer who Harrowed, Rolled and fertilised my field for me in return for half my hay cut but I have more horses now and I would like to keep the entire crop this year so would like to know when this needs doing and how much 18 acres would cost. He is not best pleased...

shared on facebook. the more publicity the more likely something will be done.

Fortunately neither of my daughters aged 18 and 22 have lost interest and if anything they support me and ride my horse too when I cant, and have him tacked up and ready for me when I finish work. They do more of the work than me now but it wasn't always like that. When doing exams etc I did...

I did offer to buy them mare and filly, but he wanted ridiculous money for them. Then when I pointed out that they simply weren't worth that he said he couldn't part with the mare for sentimental reasons. (his wife bred her). The mare is 11 before he put her in foal we were hacking her to keep...

I have been taking care of a mare for my clueless livery for three years, she is a successful ex racehorse who won quite a lot of money. She is also the sweetest mare ever. My livery only sees her because he lives very close to the yard. he knows very little about horses and she belonged to his...

My Eldest daughter pony was a little monster when we first had him but she is a better rider for having him. We still have him and he is now 25 but for many years people have said what a wonderful safe childs pony he is..but if only they knew. We made him that way through many lessons for him...

I can't count the number of people I see doing this, it does seem more prevalent now. Never seemed to happen when I was a child. You just had a pony and kept trying until you got it right.