Recent content by Gazen

Otherwise, mine is a dressage whip so it really doesn't need to be flexible, and it is a normal length which I think is 120cm. I have a wrist injury so 'normal' dressage whips just 'pull' too much and I end up just dropping them because they just hurt too much.

I used to have a bay who could come in muddy from the paddock in the middle of the summer when it hadn't raised for 3 weeks. I never knew how she managed it. All of her rugs were full necks and the deepest ones I could find that touched under her belly. She was the ultimate in hippos

I have a grey and a skewbald. At the moment they are out in rain sheets, which is 100% for my benefit so that I don't have to wait for the mud to dry so that I can ride them.

He doesn't care if you are not jumping 100cm courses or performing medium level elementary dressage tests. All he cares about is that he is fed, cared for, fed, loved and fed. :-) He will do his best for you. In the next year he will have a few 'teenage strop' moments but you will both get...

I have a plain Fleck cabon-composite. It is so lightweight and doesn't 'pull' on my wrists and thumb.

I think I have one although his breeding is not recorded he has the hallmarks of both with a bit of TB thrown in. Lazy, excellent jumper, spooky, cheeky, loving, wrote the book on mischief. I wouldn't change him

I have a 2006 Kia Sorrento. Tows 3500kg. She just keeps going. In the past 4 years I have spent about 1200 on repairs although the majority of that was to replace the fuel tank which was punctured and the engine rocker cover which I had also managed to put a hole in. Too much fence judging...

One of my tyres keeps going flat on my trailer so I need to change the tyre on that wheel. Are there specific jacking points on the trailer? I have trolly jack and axle stands if I need to use them.

I have several set of these. I use one on each of the horses legs, one my outside arm and ankle and then one on the head piece and one on the back of the exercise sheet. I have had drivers pull up and say how good the lights were and they slowed down because although they couldn't initially...

I have used a one way only device and I think that they are good and I can hear my instructor really clearly even in a howling gale and I have 'ear muffs' on my hat. I think that if I had a two way I would end up driving my instructor insane with my mutterings to my spookaholic horse. "Stop...

I am sorry for your loss. Gina at Horsehair Jewellery made a beautiful necklace pendant for me. I did it through her Facebook page, but I believe that she now has a website. https://www.facebook.com/horsehair.jewellery

The gelding is very ticklish, so it has to be a stiff brush with firm pressure. The mare will be groomed all day, every day, with whatever is available and she will groom you in return. I used to have a mare who loved having her tail area scratched so much that she would run up to you...

I keep a mare and a gelding together. They are like siblings and bicker if they are too close but they are never far apart and if one of them goes somewhere the other waits at the gate for them to return. The gelding is the boss however the mare is quite dominant too and will boot him if he...

Not caused by a spider however last year I was bitten by some sort of flying bug on my legs. The bites caused a huge amount of swelling and them I accidentally bumped a chair with my leg near the site of the bite. I didn't notice at the time and sat down on a chair. About half an hour later I...

My horse was diagnosed with arthritis in her hocks and sacro-iliac joint when she was only 6. Her confirmation makes her predisposed to joint issues. She had steroid injections in both hocks and sacro-iliac and then again nine months later. Since then she has had only her hocks done every 2-3...