Recent content by HayInMyWellies

Sometimes bad experiences can work out alright! A couple of years ago, we bought my current pony, after looking at some other completely miss advertised ones. He was described as a perfect childs pony, confidence giver, hacks alone and in company, jumps 3ft sj and xc, works on an outline...

Thank you for all your advice, it is nerves that mostly hold me back! I will try my best tomorrow with all these tips and hopefully it will go well! "horse eating stone" my pony finds these incredibly scary!

Thank you all very much-loads of helpful advice! I am going to make a checklist to mentally go through, trying for a slightly longer hack tomorrow! Aarrghimpossiblepony - near pittswood by Hampton ridge and the red sands.

My goal (for good but complicated reason) is to be able to hack out for 90 mins by myself. I need to achieve it by half way through July. At the moment i have done a couple of short hacks by myself, through an enclosed lane and turning around before i got on to the new forest (Where i live, and...

Can ride (pressed reply too early)

He is not used by them at weekends and i an trying to get it that way in school holidays. He is not used by novices so is ridden by staff or experienced clients, mostly on wt/wtc hacks, a few flat lessons, and a couple of jumping lessons. The few times he has had beginners, they fell off. One...

Glad to see that people do not think it is too much. Still do not really want it, i can understand my parents reasoning in why he has to stay there (last year he went mental, bolting and bronking without me even being onboard for a minute) and shattered my confidence, but i still do not like...

I'm looking at some different working livery options for my 16 year old new forest. He can get a bit too silly if not worked much, and so we need it mostly for winter. In winter i can't ride after school so only riding for 2/3 hours a week but in summer, and in school holidays, i'm riding 5/6...

Ah ok littlelegs, sorry, my missunderstanding there!

Trying not to make this sound stupid but... I am secretly a massive outline snob! In sort of the opposite way though. For example, I hate seeing people yanking their horse's head down, when it is not really on an outline at all, just has its neck round, people who saw at the mouth to try...

This might sound really daft but something a friend did when her pony was speeding up too much in canter, and pulling her, was instead of pulling back, she just cantered round a bit (in an enclosed space) without putting any pressure on the reins - as a result, the pony couldn't lean on her but...

The knightswood challenge - this is a class at the new forest show, and from pictures it appears to be a sort of pairs relay. Does anyone know the heights which the smaller ponies jump, and if you have to have your own pair to ride with? Also if you have to qualify or not? Any info would be...

Interesting to see that there are still mixed responses on here. It isn't very common to hear from my boy, but have heard it from others horses. As the general response seems to be that it is from tension, does anyone know why it only occurs in gelding, not mares?

Apologies for unusual thread but have conflicting opinions on a peculiar subject... I have noticed that when my/other's geldings are in the school, sometimes, particular in trot/canter, a peculiar squeaking noise can be heard coming from the sheath... I have heard two schools of thought on...

Thank you all for prices/thoughts - much appreciated! As to price, livery centre next door charge 150ppm for grass livery but with care and exercise,a well as better facilities, so probably less than that! with regards to 6 horses on 10 acres, the current three (complicated set up) one is 11.2...