Recent content by DanniRenske

Does anyone know if Adderley north of Market Drayton is holding a fun ride this year?

If you have a horsebox whether its 7.5t or 3.5t are you insured to carry anything up to the weight limit? I'm wondering whether I'm only insured to travel my horse alone or whether i'm covered to travel a friends horse?

I put my horse on linseed oil a while ago to help her coat and skin. She went absolutely cuckoo! She thought everything was out to get her and the only way to survive was to go as fast as possible everywhere. I took her off it straight away. Somebody mentioned micronized linseed gives...

Anybody know any riding instructors in the area described? I can travel but would ideally like them to come to me preferably on weekends. We can walk trot and canter. I'm thinking of affiliating to bd. I'm quite picky though!! I can't be arsed with walking for ages my mare has a very short...

This show is on a saturday and i've been given a stable so could travel on the friday with 2 overnight stays and return on sunday!

Just wondering how long people travel for shows, the reason I ask is there is a Friesians show in scotland (the only one of its kind) its where I bought my mare from but its 5 hours away in a car! Is that too far?

I'm having a nightmare trying to figure out what bit to use for dressage competitions, I school and hack at home in a cherry roller with a single joint. Whilst reading about all different bits i'm coming across the term 'nutcracker action'. Is this a good or bad thing to happen in a horses...

Can anyone tell me why people use pig oil and sulphur on their horses feathers? I don't quite understand why people use it, what does the sulphur do? My horse has mites in her feathers and suffers from mud fever (shes a friesian) and many people have said to use this. Also, any idea how i...

Who do people have their horse box insured with? I have a 3.5tonne horse box.

I am going to do some local ridden showing. I have my individual show planned but...do you have to do different things for different classes ie would indiviual show for mountain and moorland be different to open ridden?

Does anyone know where I can get a white in hand bridle from?? The type of bridle you put a friesian in, without a noseband.

I have looked on the british dressage web site and it says a "snaffle bit with rotating mouthpiece" is legal, could someone give me examples of these types of bits please?

I went to a show recently and I saw a horse in an in hand class in blinkers, side reins and what looked like a lunge roller. Could anyone tell me what this is for? I have never seen it before, is this what would be called a harness as a lot of classes near me say not to be shown in harness...

I went to a show recently and I saw a horse in an in hand class in blinkers, side reins and what looked like a lunge roller. Could anyone tell me what this is for? I have never seen it before, is this what would be called a harness as a lot of classes near me say not to be shown in harness...

I currently give my horse a calmer supplement. I have been reading that the active ingredient is Magnesium Oxide and I have found a web site that sells Magnesium Oxide to use for horses at £11.99 (compared to calmer £25!) Is this true can plain magnesium oxide be given?? Help!!!!