Recent content by jacqueline33

Hello Nipper, great to read you know Someone is doing without for Your horse! I don't own one. But I use most of my money for horseriding lessons now. So no party's, no expensive clothes, no hairdressers for me!

someone here said once "mum, I would like a cow" , so her arab was painted as a cow for her birthday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7So4CYi_vE the video is called "mama 'k wil een koe he" (if that is easier to find)

I use neatsfootcompound too, but my saddler told me to stop oiling my 80 year old saddle as the leather is falling appart. She warned me most oils contain an acid that softens the leather by breaking down the fibres. If that is the case with neatsfoot I don't know. I've used it for years. Could...

Lots of ground work is best I think. Because maybe she DOES see you as a leader already but you're nervous yourself?? Groundwork is about bodylanguage and makes you think about yourself. If a good leader is nervous or scared he is unconciously telling the horse "don't you dare go there because I...

hello, I tried a racesafe and an airowear outlyne. last one fitted best. If there had been a Rodny Powel, i would have tried it, but there wasn't. I took the airowear home and tried it again, no problems getting on or off a pony. Tried on both a dressage and a natural horsemanship saddle, both...

That sounds like the bp I borrow now!"stiff blue thing"

Would like to try Kanteq, but is not sold by the lady I'll see later in August. She's got racesafe and airowear for me to try on. Ill have to visit a threedayevent, an hour drive from here to see her. Looking forward to it!

Why ask a real horse to put up with your not perfect seat/position/aids?

peacock, but the rubber band comes off now and then.

Holly and conifers are poisonous to horses, as are oak. Bear in mind that a hedge needs to be very wide and therefore needs lots of space.

It could be a fulmer indeed because the cheeks are bend at the ends.

Mane pulling is not meant to pull the manes out. It is meant to shorten it and you need a sharp tool to do it.

If a menage is an indoor school (sorry, english is not my first language), your horse can get used to it in 3 or 4 times. First he needs to know what it is like to be indoors a big place (corridor of big stable for example). And in the indoor school you need lots of horses who are used to it to...

A very special horse as he was the ONLY actor playing the Black. In most films they use several horses for one character (5 horses played one character in the horsewhisperer for example).

Your pony looks lovely and seems willing to work for you, but it looks like he is pulling the bit. The less aids you give the less stress there is. Let the pony do the work, he is the athlete. Good luck.