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I like Friday and Sunday. The best bit about Sunday is being to walk the course and get right up to the fences. I am about 1.75 hours away so find it is very doable.

30 years ago I was down at the start box of my local riding club cross country competition and was told I had to take my earrings (small sleepers) out before I could start. Wasn't easy as my mare was raring to go

Great update and you both look so happy

A blunt hacksaw blade. I used to get them from the woodwork teacher at my old school.

I had a complete ACL rupture skiing in the late 1980's and had a reconstruction in the early 1990's. Three years ago that completely ruptured (I was just walking down the drive when it happened) and as my knee is stable enough the surgeon did not want to do another reconstruction. It was very...

Why bother about what some-one may or may not have said?

In 1976 we were paying £4 for cold shoeing with the farrier coming to the yard. I recently found a notebook from when I had a horse back in 1983. Straw was 20p a bale and hay 50p. A sack of pony nuts was 60p. DIY livery was £4 per week (stable and field but no arena but then very few yards...

I used to take a swig of Bach Rescue Remedy before getting on to warm up for a competition. May just have been a placebo but I did feel calmer. I got more nervous when I knew the horse I was riding was more than capable of winning. My main horse now is never going to trouble the top of the...

I have World Horse Welfare membership which includes up to £1500 cover for vets fees for accidental injury and BD membership for 3rd party cover for my horses (19, 19, 20 and 23). At their ages I wouldn’t put them through colic surgery.

I pay £30 for large rectangular 4 string bale and £25 for a large round bale delivered from two different suppliers. Both lots are nice straw. I put a very thin layer of chopped rape straw (currently using Unibed as it is the cheapest I have found) in the wee spot and then put a very thick...

A few years ago my friend’s horse was hit by lightning and died immediately. There was no electric fencing but the field was on a hill. It sounds as though something gave the pony a big scare if she went through the fencing. Very sorry for the owner who has lost their pony.

Brown tack and black boots is not a problem. If you can go ALL the way around the outside of the arena on your trot around you should not go into the arena before the start of your test if running under BD rules. Even if you can go round three sides but not the fourth you are allowed to enter...

I’m another who knew a horse that could be excellent most of the time but would suddenly flip and just take out anything in his way. He was on a yard with a very experienced YM. The decision was made to pts after the YM had her arm broken during one of the horse’s episodes. A PM was done...

When I had more horses (out in 22 acres) I had the larger sized Predator poo hoover which I towed behind a quad bike. It was very easy to use single handed and did a very god job of picking up all the muck. I also had a Logic sweeper muck clearer but that did not work so well on uneven ground...

I was also the child labor nearly 50 years ago. Beds were deep littered and dug out once a year. There were 5 of us kids at the yard and got about £1 per stable we dug out. It took ages to do - particularly the ones that were bedded on peat.