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There will be TBs that fit the bill - I have had a couple who would have been ideal and you could plod about on and ride every day or once a fortnight and they would be safe and sane every time - but equally there will be many more TBs who will be unsuitable. If you do end up with a TB I think...

We really enjoyed it! One place outside the rosettes in both classes, but the standard was WAY higher than I expected, and I was very pleased with him. I said exactly the same thing about never guessing some of them weren't WBs! Thrilled to come back with a finalist rosette and a plaque, and...

Anyone else at the RoR Winter Dressage Champs his weekend?

There is a bit of a disconnect between the competition rule intervals helpfully posted above, and the manufacturers' datasheet recommendations for vaccine primary course timing. The data sheet states that the third dose should be given 5 months after the second. So technically giving it at 120...

They can wonder all they like - I'm on an ex-racehorse with next to zero competition experience (he has done 4 tests in total, so two outings). At the moment I want him to go out and have a nice time without the pressure of having to do something he currently finds hard - ie. getting the right...

Generally on my own, so none! But am heading to the RoR Winter Dressage Champs next week (we are in no way of Championship calibre, just going for the craic!) so there may be a photographer there.

That's my approach, and we have a polite enough canter - we're certainly not yeehaa-ing our way round, but I've literally never seen anyone else canter in an intro warmup, and we have got some very disapproving looks. Obviously there's no actual rule against it (and to agree with the others I...

So tell me about intro BD tests. Acceptable to canter in the warmup of not?? For context I've been doing a few unaff BD intro tests with my RoR horse. Largely because although we can canter, I'm not happy enough yet with our ability to strike off on the correct leg at the correct marker to...

He absolutely genuinely is

That was just the perfect race. Kitty's Light ran a blinder (I won't be the only person that was worried that he would end up injured), Latenightpass ran well, Rachael got a place, David Maxwell had the best day of his life bar none, Corach Rambler is fine, the horse I rode out a lot a few weeks...

I am beyond thrilled. Tears here! ❤️❤️

The inside was always the shortest route, but had the biggest drop - and it was a REALLY big drop. It was known as the 'brave man's line' - you had to balance a shorter line vs a bigger risk. However as the drop was lessened the risk of taking the inside line also lessened, so more and more...

I'm going to slightly disagree with you - the tight conditions for entry mean that they have to have form/ability to be entered, add that to the hoops that they have to jump through now in terms of the enhanced veterinary checks they have to have long before they even leave the yard and it is an...

Run Wild Fred is also a non runner, as is Caldwell Potter earlier in the day. Very disappointed we won't be seeing him.

The correct intervals are 21-60 days, and 120-180 days.