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BeckieSobol - thanks for the information about your Emilon mare, I'm so sorry to hear you lost her especially at such a young age & when she had such a promising future ahead. She does sound very similar to my young Emilon mare who is destined to showjump.

I just wanted an idea of how much would be a reasonable price to pay for a used 14 1/2 inch pessoa saddle.

I'd be very grateful for any recommendations of books about foaling and handling foals and their development etc. I want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly!

Would be interested in information on the stallion Emilion, is he mainly a sire of dressage horses or show jumpers? Also what are his offspring like. I read somewhere that they are quite late developers and they are known to be quite hot temperament wise.

Has anyones else's horse or pony come out in hives recently? My youngster started with what originally looked like a nettle rash on her side, this quickly developed into scabby lumps all over her head and body, the lumps are about the size of a 10 pence but some bigger and some smaller. The vet...

A horse or foal you can always sell, unfortunately children you're not allowed to :-P

I do enjoy watching national hunt racing. Yes I find it terribly sad when a horse is injured or worse PTS no one likes to see that but it happens with any horse sport not just racing. There are fatalities in show jumping and eventing but this doesn’t get the bad publicity that racing...

Believe me having a horsey OH isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Half the time I feel like I’m just an unpaid groom. So much of my time is taken up mucking out his horses and his kids competition ponies that I don’t have much time for my own horse! My previous unhorsey boyfriend actually took more...