Recent content by elzie18xx

Ask them what they think and if they seem like they'll enjoy it take them to a highly recommended local riding school for a few lessons first few privates and then groups maybe. They get to spend time with children their age and get to ride as well. After some lessons if they still seem...

I have looked around in quite a few places and have failed to find a book that includes History, Biology, Care, Riding, Tack, Rugs etc in a book. I started to write my own and wanted to include a portion of every aspect of horses. I started it last summer and wrote 17 pages on history and...

Any good schooling ideas that can help open a horses stride up and get them moving slightly more? After the first 20 minutes he feels really free and feels a lot more willing, but by then im knackered, I do lots of transitions at the moment and that works a bit anymore ideas?

any tips on worming with a paste successfully when you've got a pony being a pain, rearing, running off etc. Thanks:)

I ride him in a school every week thru dont get nervous very often ive for it into my head if somethings gonna happen it'll happen so theres no point worrying;-) I know i always ask to go to the front of the ride because i fear that he'll get behind a mare sometime and get kicked and hes only...

Just out of curiosity, I'm not in a situation to put a horse to sleep and hope I never will be but would like to know the pros and cons of both ways of humane slaughter in horses. I know both can go drastically wrong in certain situations and clearly if you have a headshy horse the injection...

thank you:) I think (unless im about to fall off) I sit up tall and im generally quite relaxed. I think i need a instructor to tell me off and be perfectionist about me and make me do everything properly right.:) Xx

hes completely responsive to the leg thanks for the idea ill try it if I have my usual instructor back:) im just scared its something I'm doing like being tense with my hands or giving off the wrong sorta vibe if you get me. Xxx

The pony I ride most is a absolute angel when I ride him on his own or when hes at the front of the ride (most of the time..) but put him behind other horses and he just won't stop. He won't halt until hes up the other ponies bums and sometimes I try to get him to stand towards a fence so we...

Thank you all I think I understand now xx she's a good instructor I really like her it was only because I was put on a young horse for the first time in a group lesson with someone that's not a adult staff on him and no one warned me he was petrified of flapping stirrups and he stopped dead at...

Can someone please help me, at my riding school my instructor is always telling me to get the twists out of my stirrups and she doesn't mean the kind where you run out of holes on your stirrup leather. She says take your stirrup iron lie flat and turn away but I always get it wrong and if im...