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Not a choice I had thought of but he is British, has jumped at top level, is a well respected trainer and has a fantastic eye for a horse. Is he his own man? Only time will tell.

I felt sorry for the young coloured stallion. The reason why it kept putting two strides in at the double was because some idiot had built the double on a stride pattern that beggared belief. The next one in's groom redid the double and must have moved the second part a full half stride nearer.

I can understand your frustration but I was surprised how quickly the programme went. An hour sounds a long time but it could have stood 2 hours or 2 episodes, that way all the stallions could have been shown for a time that makes it worthwhile. Seeing them all for a few seconds only would...

Which other website? sorry if I missed the link

Many lovely stallions but my favourite was Contido - so handsome and well mannered he should be a gigolo. Oh and scopey as well just in case you think I am so shallow to be won over by looks alone!

[ QUOTE ] Saturday evening was a complete fiasco. It degenerated into a few stallions being ridden round an empty ring, no dressage to music, no auction and a couple of dozen confused spectators who had waited and frozen for several hours for nothing. Not good. [/ QUOTE ] Phew, glad I went...

Maybe it should be in the outtakes!

Sounds a bit like marmite.

This from a showjumping mare owners point of view. I liked being able to see so many showjumping stallions as that is unusual to see them out of competition in one place in this country outside of a grading. The stallion owners I spoke to seemed pleased enough with the numbers and pointed out...

I have read a number of Live Foal Guarantees terms and they differ. Seems to be try as often as you like over a couple of seasons and even if the mare aborts at birth in the first season you can have another go. I don't see why everybody gets SO excited about the headline terms. What I do is...

Well done. We did have a strong team out but you can only beat what is there. Don't think this is a league competition.

I thought Scott did very without getting on the podium but the problem for riders like him, be they young, old or somewhere in the middle is when will the next time be that he gets the opportunity to jump at a five or 4 star indoors show. If you only get the odd last minute call up for such an...

Not ranked high enough?

Tips for tonight's winner? Really interesting to see in last week's Horse & Hound what the past 10 winners had done afterwards.

What happened to Norway? They and Spain were so far ahead in the league before Barcelona. Was it the young riders or the juniors that the Spanish won, coached by our very own Mike Florence. They seem to be on the up.