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Has anyone here used one of those services that some trainers provide on which you send a video of you riding and they return an analysis / comment on your riding? If so, what made you use it? Any positives / negatives? What did work and what did not work? If no, would you use such a...

Crayling was excellent when I did and it was my first one, excellent for starters. I've found Edinburgh boring in the morning (just thundering around the fields) but cool in the afternoon with the return to town... I always stay at the front, just after the marshals. Started in the back and...

Yeah... Its a rather bamboozling sequence of news...

Hey, I resent that! :p Gumtree might be a solution for advertise. You WILL get some people completely unsuitable answering your ad, but with a bit of patience and clever questioning you can sort them out before wasting a lot of time.

You mean something like this: http://www.vulcanrubber.co.uk/rubber-grass-mats.cfm It needs to be installed properly, and its not something you can just 'lay on' as the matting needs to be filled, otherwise you end up with a mat of holes. Good ol'fashioned grit? Maybe the best solution...

Sanquhar (17th Aug), Edinburgh (8 Sep) and Selkirk (15 Sep).

The place I go to ride buy most of their horses from a chap called Murray Bain in West Lothian (Harelaw Equestrian Centre). I don't know him so cannot vouch or recommend but, I've ridden a lot of horses he sold and they are quite good. Riding school horses, but good. Of course this is only my...

I've been to the Scottish Equi in Lanark ( http://www.scottishequestrianhotel.com/lessons-services/index.html ) and quite liked it. The staff are unusually friendly for a riding school, everything was very organized, some of the lessons were also quite good. They had all sort of horses, they do...

Pufff.... sorry, cannot help there. No idea.

Congrats! Happy to see that you found what you were looking for! (and also sorry to have read your instructor fiasco in the other thread...)

Musselburgh, if you can still get a place for Saturday.

C'mon, its Monarch! Just keep balanced and he'll do the rest!

The pamphlet below, courtesy of the BHS Scotland, gives all the information you need in terms of access. It also gives you guidance on what to do in case of a problem with rights of access and provides detailed information on what you can or cannot do...