Recent content by Cherrygarden

I see that now I have arrived that sense has been somewhat restored and people are saying that they would like the option to ride bitless and that they think the rules should be changed - excellent! To those who say that the rules are there to be adhered to and not changed if you choose to join...

Brilliant news, glad so far so good, echo the stump spraying and would continue with that for a few days too. Pictures yes please : )

Really pleased it all ended well, I will look at pictures later. So pleased though : )

Ah lovely, happy endings : ). Lovely looking foal, beautiful markings, I love all the white and general splashes.

Echo all the others everything crossed for a happy ending this time, really hope it all goes well xx

Anastasia what I feel is that there should be a minimum standard that is applied to all stallions by one central body first, if every stallion standing can achieve that and as a result as a minimum send stock forward into any competition, evaluation or Grading albeit at entry level then after...

It is not the suggestion that horses should be graded that upsets me, if I keep breeding then I am certainly working towards having stallions graded but what keeps coming to my attention is the amount of holes in the system and the implication that this is being done to improve things when in...

There are dillions of horses still without passports and dillions more unscrupulous sellers claiming horses have none. It is very easy to aquire horses without passports and even easier to sell them probably as no one presses a magic alert button when a passport gets issued for a horse over 6...

So, so sad, what a shame and a waste nothing baby should have to die, my heart hurts for you, the mare and her but at least her pain will be gone xx

Just to clarify, the Futurity cannot do this as it is not a stud book or breed society, cannot be under current EU Zootechnics regulations and was set up specifically to work with the studbooks / breed societies /inspecting organisations rather than against them, which is what setting up a...

As usual Ginnie said it better so if there are answers can I have hers too please? : )

Why is it that none of us seem able to hear each other? No one has said they are against grading as a useful tool, I have issues about how we can all pretend not to see how often licenses and gradings miss certain extremely important things and how this gets swept under the carpet and how the...

Bit odd after what you have described but sounds like a mildly dummy foal. I fso she will grow out of it, mine did it in extremis and would run about with tongue lolling but not now. As vet says if no other worrying symptoms orally I wouldn't worry yet. She might just like playing with her tongue.

Everything Ginnie said! I was sent abroad to learn from the European system and what I learned was that any mare will grade if she is produced right and not ridden so lets have no more lectures about not breeding from mares that become unsound through injury because in two years I saw no horses...

Thanks for the heads up about Wendy Minor, I am fairly sure that having read the website it was her I waited a year to speak to before with aforementioned result but perhaps I will try again to get hold of that list so I can compare the various license and grading procedures for stallions.