Recent content by DurbanSkies

Hi all, I’m really struggling with my fussy Tb and getting feed into him at the moment. He used to have a great appetite but he’s had several bouts of colic, starvation periods and ulcers over the last 6 months which led to a long course of gastroguard and eventual keyhole colic surgery. He...

Hi all! Back in December my horse had a tooth removed due to an infection and incredibly bad sinusitis (the vet said they actually couldn’t see anything on the CT scan as it was so clogged up). When he came home there was a fair bit of swelling around the incision site on his forehead but they...

Hi everyone, If anyone has a spare few mins please could you fill out my dissertation survey on eventing !! It would be a great help; it’s looking at injury risk of the leg :))...

Hi there Could anyone who events in the UK over the age of 18, please could you fill out my dissertation survey? It's looking at injury risk in relation to shoes https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=1m00vXDaWkStHB3f8YXeOJFDMGXSIFtAoc2DvYXUA0RUMVZTVzdXQ1NOOVFaQ1U4MlpENjFCSFlXMS4u...

Hi there everyone, For my dissertation, I'm looking at the number of people competing barefoot in the UK eventing world, if you compete barefoot or shod please could you fill out my survey...

Little update in case anyone has some more advice: Was entered into Tweseldown’s UA last weekend and decided to have a go at it as it’s a venue he’s been to a few times and couldn’t get refund if we withdrawed. Pony did a foot perfect dr, and just tapped the last sj. Onto the xc, on the way down...

Thank you - yep I’ve already withdrawn from borde hill and will be leaving anything xc competition related for the time being. He will compete sj and dr at competitions completely alone it’s just the xc phase. So like you say I’m going to really focus on hacking him alone and I thought maybe...

Hi all! I’m having a little trouble with my horse out cross country; He’s a 9 year old ex steeplechase horse who I’ve owned almost a year now. When I first got him we had plenty of teething problems from bucking and refusing to canter a 20m circle and bombing at jumps, despite the fact in his...

Hi all, I was looking at doing a 6month membership this year with BS but I'm a little confused with all the rule etc. I currently compete 90cm unaffiliated so I'd be doing British Novice and as I'm 19 I'd be a senior. But what does C1 and C2 stand for as I've looked at two schedules and both...