Recent content by Iberian girl

If she is a safe ride, how about a riding school? They may take her on free loan and if your health allows you can then take her back. best of luck.

Sunday 8th Sept at Urchinwood Manor nr Bristol www.urchinwoodmanor.co.uk. However, right on the limit of your 2 hour drive I suspect.

My PRE has an almost permanent droopy bottom lip too, even when he's really interested in something! Armas looks absolutely stunning...and Hersus is definitely a dude holding his own!

V interested in this thread. Rode my new horse without the flash his previous owner said was necessary for the first time this week as he has a sore nose and he went much better - more submissive and relaxed. And another owner in our yard had exactly the same experience with her new horse last...

Up until yesterday it was the Shetland at our yard. His eyes would go out on stalks whenever he saw it. I suspect he'd never seen a Shetland before coming to the yard and didn't quite understand that he's a horse too! However yesterday the Shetland was eating grass against a fence as we...

A lady came up to me in the yard the other day where I was grooming my very Spanish and regal looking (I think anyway;)) PRE and she asked what his name was. I proudly told her it was Americano de Salvatella but added, slightly smugly I'll admit, that his stable name was Zorro. "oh" she said...

My PRE is prone to cracked heels but he was imported just before our wetest year since who knows when! Agree with everything said about need a good farrier to shape their feet right but my boy's grow really slowly (unlike what others have said). They are great horses and mine at least is as...

Go down a size in Premier Equine. My chunky boy's 5'9" Weathabeatas he came with are a touch small. I bought 6' Premier Equine rugs and they swamped him. Seriously, looked like a kid on the first day of term in a uniform his Mum says he'll grow into!

Oh yes, definitely have those days! Today, kept losing my left stirrup for no apparent reason. Last week, accused people of borrowing my stirrup leathers and stretching them, next day on same hole they felt fine again! Like you, it also seems to happen when I'm not being taught by my usual...

Yes it's bred into them but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to get our own horses to engage their hind legs as much as their "breeding", i.e. shape, allows. Be pleased with whatever improvement your horse shows and give yourself a pat on the back for caring about trying to school this into...

Oooo - been at the yard all day and so much on this thread I want to respond to now! Dabdab - hoof in the crotch - ouch! Yep, Zorro's previous owner told me he sometimes Spanish walks when being led out of the field so to watch out for a hoof up the bum! Cortez -he is just "being Spanish"...

Loberia, my ten-pence-worth is be very careful before teaching passage and piaffe without training into it gradually (i.e. over years of collecting the trot to get to passage & piaffe). Similarly be very sure you want your horse to "know" Spanish walk. The reason for my counsel is that my...

Help please. I'm fretting about what regimen (fitness/diet) my new horse should be on - bear with me: 9yo PRE, imported 18 mths ago, bought by me 1mth ago. I believe that for at least the last year he has been ridden 30-60 mins most days for schooling with a little light hacking. Similar...

Both my parents only have one kidney - each had one removed, Mum when I was 6, Dad when I was 15 and I'm (mumble) well into my 30's now. They say they were meant to be together as they have a matching pair between them - aaahh. Neither are riders but it has never stopped them doing...

Sounds like a more severe version of some problems I'm having with my new horse. The advice I'm getting, which seems to be working, is that yes, everything is scary and unsettling in a new yard (making new friends, new routines etc etc) but there's a difference between a horse that's scared of...