Recent content by Joanne_Stockport

In the past, I have used my instructors to get help on the ground (not that mine is very tricky on the ground). It would be a good idea for her to start building a collection of videos demonstrating her skills and how she helped owners resolve their problems. How to solve specific problems : ie...

Not quite 50, I started riding at 44 years, 4 years ago. It only started with a voucher to a beginners hack (someone on the ground leading the horse!). I wanted to be able to do it without someone on the ground next to me so I took some riding lessons and got the bug. It was at a time in my life...

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I have started riding 4 years ago at 44 years old (never did before!). I have started with 1 hour private lesson every week (with some hacking once I could canter). After about 6 months I wanted to increase the amount of time in the saddle so found a part loan. The horse was on full livery so I...

I agree with other regarding foot soreness, it needs to be addressed before you start training seriously. Regarding riding holidays, how many miles is the horse expected to do every day? Is is on flat ground or up hills? is it mostly walks or mainly trot canter? I train my cob for pleasure...

It's great that you are thinking about getting your own horse but you need to gain more experience before ! It is completely different to have your own horse then to have a riding lesson once a week. You will need to be able to commit (and your parents as you are minor) a lot of time, effort...

For me , the longer the better !! DSC_0352 by Joanne Thibodeau, on Flickr

it's getting a bit silly this thread really ! I can understand why the OP is getting defensive, she is only new on this forum and and it has obviously open a can of worms ! She did not even ask if there should be a reason why she shouldn't buy a RS horse, she was only asking about a choice...

To make my lazy horse more responsive to my legs I started from ground work again. So first he stands and I tap him on the side (where your leg would be)but I start with very light tap-tap-tap and increase the pressure every five seconds until he moves, as soon as he does I stop and reward him...

I've started at the beginning of the year with my gypsy cob (he is 7, 14.3 hands). I have been to a few rides from EGB and one with EnduranceGB. We were doing the fun rides (20 kilometres most of the time) but with EGB they still have a minimum speed so we are trotting most of the time as he...

She already mentioned that she was getting a 5* vetting done so I think she will know if there are obvious problems from that.

As I said before, the horsey world is full of diverging opinion so you can "listen" to all the different advice (and think about it) but it's up to you to make your own judgement (and you do not have to justify yourself). When I bought mine I was in the same situation (and later on when trying...

I know the feeling about buying horsey things...he gets more things than me ! I bought too many rugs last winter and he doesn't really need it as my vet recommended not to put anything other than a rain rug. He is a cob and he tends to balloon in the summer so she wants him to be quite trim at...

Another vote for Dougal, It's a good thing that you are on full livery to start with as you will have a lot to learn ! Things like feeding, saddle fit, rugging(or not),farriers, teeth, recognising if your horse is not well,ground work, etc.. I bought mine 2 years ago from the riding school where...

The most challenging for me is to school my green gelding while I am still learning how to ride ! With him everything had to be pretty good to get him to go nicely. Timing (as in if I wait to long to react he takes advantage and find ways to avoid working !) It took me 3 months to start getting...