Recent content by daffy44

I'm slightly surprised that a few people have mentioned insurance, but no one has mentioned First Aid? I teach, and whilst I never, ever want to use my first aid, I also wouldnt want to teach without knowing I have it, and that I've kept up to date with it.

Yes, sorry, I wasnt clear enough, the weight is the combination of jockey, saddle and lead if necessary.

In handicap races the horses are rated on their past form, and that is how the weights are allocated, the jockey doesnt come into the decision. The better form the horse has the higher the weight it has to carry, the owner and trainer then decide on the jockey. If there is a jockey who gets on...

No, the weight is allocated to the horse irrespective of the jockey.

I think its fine that other people have negative opinions, we all have different perspectives, and I think thats very healthy. I just think its a shame that people want to share their negatives on a thread that just celebrated someone's achievement, and didnt ask for opinions.

Fabulous, such a difficult floor plan and they didnt miss a beat!! A well deserved pb.

Yes, the pts was inevitable either way. But I'd rather some humanity and respect was shown to the horse. I think however much adrenaline was involved the horse was still in pain as evidenced by his very peculiar gait, and I think it makes a difference that the end of his life wasnt spent being...

Yes, it's who you think it is.

Yes, I have a positive recovery story. My horse did something daft in the field, and whilst technically sound, his trot stride was very short and tight, and he couldn't canter without bucking and disuniting. Vet out of course, and we checked every inch of him as SI problems are so often...

Absolutely!

I totally agree, unfortunately I think its human nature, its just so much worse when its a child. Either children putting themselves in danger to get views/likes or parents exploiting their influencer children's pain/problems.

Unfortunately, I dont think the love of seeing things go wrong is confined to chldren, although I think its more problematic with children. Its why people do compilation videos of all the falls etc from Badminton and other major events. I have a fb page for my business, and I post videos of my...

I dont see that as an either/or situation, the horse can and should soften to the contact, but also reach for it, for example if you gently feed out the rein the horse should follow the hand down into a nice stretch taking the neck down and the nose out, also if the horse is happy to reach to...

Firm contact implies stronger to me, I apologise if thats not your intent, but try to think of the contact being more consistent instead. Try thinking that each hand feels each side of her mouth, lightly, softly but consistently, you want the contact to be soft and elastic, then the horse...

Cheapest way of all is to just train the horse to take its weight forwards and backwards without moving its feet.