Recent content by djp48

Hi, Thanks for that helpful info.

I have been with horses for 60 years but have NO experience of breeding! In the spring of last year I bought a quality thoroughbred mare in a state of total neglect, she is now in good condition. She is registered with Wetherbys but has NO history as registration was not kept up after sale in...

Thanks for the info. Is there a way of searching the Goresbridge sale catalogue for March 2007 or finding out from them, as I did from Tattersalls, the address of Declan Scally who bought my girl from her breeder, a Mrs R. Ross. This may be a further step in piecing her past together .... I am...

Hi Amage, thanks for the details you have, I traced her breeder and had a reply to a letter sent telling me about her full brother, Declan Scally did not reply to my request for details of her training, any problems found and possible knowledge of who she was sold on to so lost track of her from...

Thanks, still working on her, had to take her back to basics, she is still very nervous of other horses approaching at speed but at least no longer stands rifidly shaking, along way to go but slowly getting there!

Last year bought a 5 year old thoroughbred who had been neglected. Luckily she was chipped and I was able to trace her breeding back 7 generations. She was born in Ireland in 2004, by Goldmark (USA) out of In Grace's View (IRE), registered with wetherbys and sold at Tattersalls (IRE) at 6...

Thanks both for the valuable info. Our livery yard run affiliated and unaffilicated classes but the introductory walk/trot classes are at unaffiliated level and although I have ridden for over 50 years I have only ridden walk/trot tests within the last year. I now have a new horse who needs...

Hi Jodie, Thanks for the info, seems a little sad that they need no more than a rough idea, not really my idea of encouraging people to take dressage seriously contructive critism even for beginners surely would at least give us something to work on!

Hi, I wonder if anyone can tell me if people judging unaffiliated walk/trot tests should have reached at least trainee judging level or above?

I would like to agree 100%. 18 months ago I bought a 15.2 thoroughbred who had been neglected. For over a year I tried every mild bit available, the mare spent all this time avoiding the bit in any and every way possible. I grew up during the 50's and 60's at the best known riding establishment...

Hi, Starting to think about buying new show browbands, love the very blingy Australian ones but they appear to be made of pvc does anyone know what the feeling in the showing world is about these browbands?

Perhaps it's an Arab thing! She's only 5 and I was hoping she'd grow out of it ............... but maybe not! She's inclined to have a tantrum in the middle of the road as well, especially if it' a monster that rattles as well as growles and has a head above hers. Perhaps she thinks it's a...

Fields are fine because she has the ability to run away from monsters. Stables are OK because she can hide round the corner!! Will be, for the second time, although not for the last 6 months, hacking out iwth a older bomb proof companion so fingers crossed.

Glad to hear that others have similar problems. Hacked out with bomb proof mare until she left yard and as long as she was between us and the monster we coped. Just found another bomb proof who us prepared to try, I guess like many others, we have a considerable distance to cover on narrow roads...

Hi, would be interested in finding out how others would go about dealing with this problem. I have with a young Arab. She is not afraid of cars, stationary horse boxes, stationary tractors, loading onto a box with or without the engine running but meeting anything bigger than she is on the...