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In my area they are very active in protecting bridleways. They also run a couple of sponsored rides that Air Ambulance benefit from and have recently run trailer reversing courses for a very low cost.

I bought an extra water but last spring which guaranteed the wet summer. So I got another one in the autumn to try and guarantee a dry winter but all 3 were full before the end of October

Discover The World are probably a good bet. And right now is a good time to go if it's volcano activity that interests. We will be on a more budget option of a camper van.

Thanks I'll look at these.

We are travelling round the ring road next summer and I would like to do a ride while I'm there but everything I look at is either suitable for beginners or multi day. I don't fancy plodding along, does anyone know of a 2-3 hour ride that has a bit of excitement?

We were new to a yard when my horses got strangles, thankfully they were separate from the others. All the other horses on the yard had a blood test and all but 2 were positive. Re-tested a bit later & all their antibody levels had fallen which apparently showed it was an old exposure & not from...

I help at TREC competitions and there is always plenty of food and often home made cakes

I would just be careful who you tell beforehand. There are some people who seem to get pleasure from wringing guilt out of others.

I noticed a few stands I always fantasise at were missing and we noticed the Horse Village was smaller, less depth. Less competitions too

Mine spooked out on a hack and ended up upright in a very deep ditch full of brambles that tangled up in his feathers, mane & tail so he couldn't get out. Firemen had to come and get him out but luckily they didn't need to sedate him as that would have meant lifting him out and he was directly...

I'm going Friday if the weather is ok. Went 1 year on the Saturday when it had poured all week and never again! I'll wander round the trade stands & imagine the yard & facilities I would build if I won squillions on the lottery, do any competitions and fantasise at the riding holiday stands...

Loads round here. See at least one most weeks.

What Sossigpoker said. I sold my 505 last year and got it serviced before I advertised. On one side the panels had rotted inside but it looked fine. I was horrified to see the state of the inside of the old ones once they were removed.

I just booked day off for Burghley. My boss asked me if I'm competing. I'm 64, overweight, have a 24yo hairy cob with one eye and atrhritis. But because I used to occasionally get a frilly in a local 50/60cm class and occasionally ride someone else's horse I must be really good.