Recent content by emmab13

I picked one up for 1500 quid! This was a complete fluke though, I would expect to pay between 4 and 6k for one like that!

I can put up with lots of conformation faults when buying one to sell on, I have a few deal-breakers that I would always leave where I found them. Very straight hocks are asking for hind limb trouble. Very upright forelegs or back at the knee are asking for forelimb lameness. I don't mind...

Er, I have to disagree. If you have the right horse, at the right price it will sell. I have one in to sell at a time to earn some extra cash, either on sales livery or I buy one to sell. The last three have gone to the first people who came to view, and two of those have sold through word of...

Nobody has said it yet, so I'm going to. Why, (if your position consistent with the pictures you've shown us) is your instructor putting fences up to 1.10m? From what I can see, you have a lovely horse who wants to jump. You have had lots of bumps in the road including a nasty accident...

So, as I understand it, there were two poles like this: ll with a tiny gap between them, maybe a hand's width? Is this correct? Pony trotted over poles, hitting the first one which knocked into the second one. Cue split second of stumble/confusion then they trotted on their merry way. I...

I pull, trim and clip as part of earning my living. I would never in 100 years put a pair of scissors near any horse apart from a showjumper. I go to a couple of places with jumpers, and I pull the mane to thin it, then use the scissors to do tiny vertical cuts until the mane is straighter than...

I had a lovely French-bred ex pointer with horrendous feet. Thin soles, crap feet in general, would limp about for weeks if he lost a shoe, and was lame after shoeing 2/3 times. Excellent farrier shod with pads, permanent over-reach boots, and for 10whole weeks (two shoeings) we did...

Done, although now its reminded me that I've done it and now keep poking the bumpy collar bone!

Six is a lovely number. I was once left with 18 hunters from November til Feb and I was about 6 stone, miserable and it very nearly finished me off! Thank god for the horsewalker, got a routine so half went on the walker and did ride and lead with the other half, so was just about doable. If...

Really, you are totally not alone. Bearing in mind I ride about 8 a day, I am scared of the following: Getting on with someone holding the horse that I don't trust 100%. Having a leg up Horses that get 'light in front' Horses who are not great at jumping Very downhill horses I also...

I ride for a living, and in April I had three cracking falls within a fortnight. I chipped a tiny bit off one of my vertebrae low down on my back when one tipped up over a wall, then continued to ride on Tramadol and was jumped off over a XC fence, giving myself a hairline fracture of my pelvis...

I do it, but on certain terms. I have between 10 and 18 horses in at home at any one time, so I travel 20 mins at the most and wherever I'm going must have lights. I don't come at completely unsociable times, but 7.00pm is not unusual. Weekends are different, I try and get a lot of 'outside'...

As a dealer, the nice horses at sensible prices always shift. E.g., nice 15hh connie, 9 yrs, hunted, pony clubbed, nice on flat, amazing to hack, nice sensible jump, v. v. v. easy to do, £3500. Advertised on Friday, viewed on Saturday, vetted Saturday afternoon, (lady's OH a vet) gone...

A girl who helps me is v good, she lives in Ollerton, has another job part time and will always help me out if I'm stuck/away/broken. Will PM you, but will speak to her first to see if its ok to give you her no. xx

oops, two giant pics the same, here's another.