Recent content by HeresHoping

Well, first it was the bike. Now it's triathlons. 🫤 And quite frankly, the horse was cheaper.

That made my eyes leak. Quite a lot. How very wonderful.

Music on D Waters, when said out loud, sounds Jamaican although it is probably a play on Irish pronunciation. You could have We Be Jammin Sea Wolf Lad in Red (boom tish!😂) But... So, the mare's name is a nod to a poem by Byron (her sire) called Stanzas for Music which compares a woman's voice...

This, with bells on. Horses are strong around jumps because they are running from pain, 99% of the time. Sorry, @mariaandefe, this one will be a hospital trip and a massive vet bill in the making.

There's a saying in the shooting circles: a Lab is born half trained; a spaniel dies half trained.

As a cyclist, a pretty whizzy one at that, and one that is regularly part of a Pelton I am astounded at the stories on here. Complain to their Clubs. The will have the name on their jerseys. Or better still, complain to British Cycling. Complaints get handled pretty quickly and the penalty will...

350km on the bike this week an my Garmin told me my performance today was 2 below base. Do you think its sadistic streak extends to the pony version? "You've only trotted 2 miles today. You performance is hardly worth mentioning...."

Iodine. Spray it on.

I'd like to reassure you that this dealer has an excellent reputation so if she's up for sale again, it's because she didn't work out.

Honestly, B, not many horses 'thrive' the way we expect when wintering out in a permanent herd after a lifetime of stabling, food, and 1:2:1 care. They look scraggy, motheaten, their muscles sag where they haven't been used, and they look a bit meh. In my experience, this is for the first couple...

Good grief there are some sanctimonious individuals on here. Always jumping in on the assumption that no one knows what real responsibility is. Or that the OP has absolutely no knowledge of anything, ever. You might have guessed I'm still a bit miffed that some assume I know nothing when it...

Am not going to get into a dingdong about this, but that's kind of why I said I could do some digging. Just so you know. It's not far from me. I know some of the Zetland crowd. And there were lots of pictures, I just picked one. They were all hunt jumps, though.

It's a grey... and 17.1 and I don't know why it is being advertised as a Hunter... I could do some digging if you are interested:

Hallelujah! My horsey vet (of long ago, I don't have a horse any more) was a huge advocate of wait until all those hormones had their jobs on the maturing front. He was quite convinced that early neutering was a key factor in a huge number of physiological problems, from digestion to dodgy...

I had 6 lab puppies and a filthy C-section bill after leaving my husband to watch the dog and bitch for an hour while I rode the horse. To be fair, I was carted off in an ambulance because while I was riding an ovarian cyst chose that moment to burst and I got off the pony mid session and passed...