Recent content by Fred-Dibnah-Kernow

I have several pairs of Kerrits - and absolutely love them. My first pair are about 5 years old and still look good as new, so would say they are fairly hard wearing. However, I also now use bog standard running tights to ride in - normally pay about £10-£12 from Sainsburys / tesco / Sports...

My mare has been long suspected of suffering ulcers (it is managed though - not left to suffer I promise!) and she was definitely more grumpy when I tried her on turmeric. So she didn't stay on it very long. However, on the flip side of this is a disease like Ulcerative Colitis in humans...

Get some help of an experienced instructor / handler. Horses don't have an attitude to have a problem - they are responding to something in their environment. You need to work out what the issue is - most likely it is a miscommunication and you need to go back to some basic handling skills to...

Working on fitness is the best way to improve the buzz. It depends a little on the type of horse, current workload and current food - but I would hesitate to try to get a quick fix with food. It's a bit like us using chocolate or coffee as a pick me up - its great at the time but no necessarily...

Greys will nearly always change colour as they age - but it really varies from horse to horse how quickly this happens. Our old pony didn't go really white until she was 20 or so, but my younger horse now is almost entirely white at 7yo. Foals can often be born one colour and change to...

Definitely agree with some with some good lessons :) . You need to feel you can push him out onto the circle from your leg, rather than pulling him out to the circle using your reins :)