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Personally if the shows are only local, i think that your horse will be fine in a snaffle. For higher level shows a double is correct however if you believe your horse will be more comfortable in a pelham, then a pelham is fine. But for local, non qualifying shows, a snaffle will be fine. If the...

Hello I have a 8yr old Standardbred pacer. I don't know her history so don't know if she has raced. She will trot perfectly out hacking and in the arena and canter out hacking. However when i ask for the canter in an arena, she becomes disunited in the canter. How can i encourage her to...

I have a 4yr Welsh sec A Youngster who is teething. I bought him a flexible, straight bar happy mouth snaffle. He chewed the bit and now the tough plastic has all come up and is stick out of the mouth piece. He slightly has cut himself twice on it now and I can't continue schooling him until I...

Also it is around 3 cm in diameter I think. It does not move under his skin either. It is just there. And does not affect him at all.

Firstly, it is under the skin secondly, it is on his neck, thirdly it does not affect him in any way. Also my farrier's parents are vets and he grew up going on calls with his parents also my equine dentists wife works with the mounted police force and has a number of horses under her care to...

My pony has developed a lump on his neck over the summer. I have looked through the whole of my BHS manual and cannot find any that match his. It does not get bigger, it doesn't hurt him, it doesn't weep or anything. The equine dentist is coming up next week so I will ask him if he knew what it...

I know how you feel. I have a pony who is the exact same. I turned loading into a game. I called it the 'In and Out Game.' I would keep trying to load him and then as soon as he was in, i would bring him back out again. I kept on doing this a couple of times until he went willingly in and then...