Recent content by Frenchmade

Hello!

My sympathies to you at this difficult time.

Discussion with French riding school owners - bloopers too numerous to list them all! Here's a couple: - The width of the gullet/width of the saddle isn't important, it's what it's made of that matters. :0 (Here they believe that a rider has his/her own saddle and puts it on every horse he/she...

That's the crazy thing about losing confidence - you can rationalise it, know it's daft and ridiculous, but it doesn't help to know that! In fact, knowing it's not rational adds to the problem because you start to think you're losing the plot. Well, you're not. :)

I went through exactly the same thing with the same fears around 18 months ago, riding a young ex racer TB. I was even too scared to do rehab with my horse, in hand! I bought a self hypnosis CD by Sharon Shillwell called Confident Schooling, I think. Amazon has a good range specifically for...

Lovely horse! Perhaps you've fallen into a bit of a black hole with regard to what people are looking for? His age will go against him if someone's looking for an eventer to bring on, and maybe people think an older horse of that size may have nearly come to the end of it's eventing life. He...

What a dreadful situation to be in and one I know only too well. I was faced with the same issues, same dilemma as recently as January. You can probably still find my thread about my horse Fluthier. I made the decision to PTS. He was only 6 rising 7 and, as a firey TB, not a candidate for...

I feel for you. Sometimes you wish people would just mind their own business and let you get on with doing your horse your own way. I think we've probably all been on the end of something which drives us mad at livery yards. Have a cup of tea (if it were me it would be wine!). Don't let the...

I don't know the full story, but it looks like the only way is up! Looking forward to following what happens next. :) Edited to add: What a cutie!

They probably have no idea how to do it properly. At my yard (in France too) the stabled horses have a shavings bed of about 3" deep, with bare areas all around the perimeter of the box for about a foot. Banks? You must be kidding! Mine lived out so I wasn't concerned! Next horse might be...

I'd love to buy locally - but Im in France and the choice is dire. :(

I agree it's not much fun selling either. I've sold I think, 5, gave one away to the loaner and part ex-ed another. Selling a 18.1hh very forward spooky horse wasn't the most fun I've ever had. The people who turned up to 'ride' him :( He did go in the end to an excellent home but I had to...

Cheers, ester!

I guess that's always a danger, that it's a false lameness report, but you have to trust your vet. Mine told me about the lameness but didn't rule out the horse. Just suggested that I might want to do some more xrays to check what it is, and that it might indeed be a temporary thing, or an old...

No 3 was tragic, but I don't think any dishonesty was involved, just ignorance. Poor horse was a TB who'd been turned away all winter through no rider. He was stick thin, covered in rain scald and hot infected mud fever on his hind legs. He walked out of the stable really wide behind, probably...