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I was hoping to ask peoples opinions on what colour bridle to buy my horse. HE is a black irish sport horse but has a very cob look to him. I am currently using a brown stubben saddle on him but I'm not sure I'm going to stick with this saddle as I'm not sure I like the colour on him. I think...

Hi all. I have recently bought myself a black irish cob 15'3". He's a lovely boy and I was hoping to get him out and about and wondered about taking him to some local shows but I'm not sure what classes I can enter. All the cob classes are just for welsh cobs. I'm not sure I can enter working...

Hi, I was hoping to ask people what bridle and saddle would suit my new irish cob best. At the moment I want to try a bit of everything, dressage, SJ, XC, hacking, showing etc. At the moment I don't know what we will do most of. He is about 15'2" and black with hogged mane and I am long in the...

I found this article to be a very factual explanation of wobblers: http://equisearch-media.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/EQUUS-Wobblers.pdf

As far as I know wobblers can't be cured because it is caused by bone malformation in the neck vertebra.

My vet is an equine specialist and he did tell me that the portable one will not be as good as the one at the clinic but that it will give a diagnosis. I can't travel my boy with him being so unstable so the portable one is the only option.

Thanks once again for all your help and advice. I have spoken to the vet and found out the price of a portable x-ray, which wasn't too bad and have decided to go for it. I hope this x-ray will identify for sure it is wobblers if it isn't I don't what will happen:eek: Just have to take it one...

I am not insured for x rays and the vet didn't even suggest getting them done. He told me that I shouldn't spend any more money on my horse as there is nothing that can be done and I should find a companion home for him but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that as an option. He didn't even...

Thanks for all your replies and support. My horse is in full livery because I work full time and travel 2 hours a day, so can't really retire him. So a lot of the time other people are having to handle my horse for me which is a worry. It breaks my heart every time I see him move he looks so...

Until 2 weeks ago I'd never heard of wobblers and now I've been told by my vet that my horse has it. My horse is a 9yo WB that I have had for 2 years. He started appearing stiff in his back legs, swinging his back legs out plus showing resistance to bending and turning when ridden. In the past...

Thanks for all the comments I probably will get a saddle fitter out to have a look at it but get a different one to last time!:rolleyes:

Hi This is my first post here so please bear with me as my story is fairly long. I had a T8 thorowgood saddle professionally fitted to my dutch warmblood about 1 year ago. During this time he was becoming harder and harder to ride, not going forwards etc. I have recently moved him to a new...