Recent content by Chicodeeb

I'm thinking of starting to work towards becoming a trainee BD dressage judge whilst I'm waiting for my baby horse to grow up. I was just wondering if anyone had any experiences of the process they would like to share. I've had a little look at the requirements and it seems quite long...

There does seem to be a lot of tendon injuries around this year after the dry ground went slippery. My 18 year old is on his fourth week of box rest and my neighbours horse, 22 years old, is on his second week of box rest. Neither of them have had tendon injuries before and both injured...

I remember going for a height certificate and the vet asking what height did I want my mare to be! It didn't matter as she was easily half an inch under height for the class she was doing but in the ring she looked like a pony copared to the other horses.

I too feed Suregrow to my yearling, she has been on it since she was 6 months old and will continue to be fed it until she is 3. I feed the recommended amount for her body weight (she is now getting 500g twice a day - a sack lasts rougly two weeks). I was told as she was slightly poor on the...

I remember having to enter as many BD competitions as possible as you quite often got balloted out when they were oversubscribed, usually at around 40 entrants. That's not a problem now, although it's probably more to do with the number of venues hosting events now.

Good for you. My 17 year old had his first dressage in 9 yrs last week and he got totally over excited but he enjoyed himself, even if I felt worn out trying to control him!