Recent content by jojo2305

I've had a 1/3rd share in a horse for 4 years now. The horse is great and I enjoy riding and spending time with him. However, when I first started 'owning' I had a very junior job and four years later I am in a much more senior role which is likely to involve much more travel than I do at the...

Last time I checked there were definitely Jinny, Caroline Akrill, Peyton, black stallion, Primrose Cumming etc... Non-fiction there are plenty of very old horsey books, Lipizzaner books from the Spanish Riding School lot, but also all the modern ones...autobiographies. I shall list the...

Great Thanks all! That Facebook group looks ideal too, I've got half the books on the cover page! I'll give a few of the normal horsey facebook groups a go too- not sure all these horsey vet books etc will be too popular in the charity shops in town!

Hello All, I have a very large collection of horse books non- fiction, fiction, all the old kids pony stories etc. I need to clear most of them out asap but it seems a very lengthy, and quite expensive process to list them all on ebay. Is there somewhere similar online where I could list them...

Actually I was working at a stud when two mares turned out together foaled unexpectedly one night. In the morning the chestnut Sec C mare who had gone to a chestnut stallion had a huge bay foal and the enormous bay D mare had a smaller chestnut foal. Obviously they had done a nighttime...

Well really, the things I'm curious about are... The whole hunter thing, the way of going, classes and divisions etc. Routine joint injections. The really intense trainer/student relationships. Seemingly sky high prices for not particularly outstanding horses alongside rock bottom prices for...

One of our foals disappeared randomly from the field a couple of years back. We live in an area where big cat sightings are not unheard of as well. Unfortunately all we found were the bones two days later, nothing else left, down a steep gully close to the farm. Awful incident, there were a lot...

If it is any consolation the dam of the lordosis case I mentioned had not previously, and has not since had any problem foals. She was put to a different stallion after the 'problem baby'. As far as we were aware the sire of the lordosis foal has not sired other foals with this problem either.

We had one, a welshy. It became obvious around 8 months of age and became more pronounced until he was a yearling. After discussion with the vet he was turned out with the other youngsters to see how he matured. Unfotunately by the time he was four the dip was so extreme it was decided to pts. I...

Scot-ads I'd say- still the first place I look anyway!

Well for me it didn't turn out that badly as people were very kind and gave me rides on other ponies until we got another one. Needless to say my parents bought the next ones so it didn't happen again! I always do wonder what happened to the pony though...

I was allowed a pony on loan in the run up to Xmas when I was 11/12. All went well, pony was installed, cared for and generally adored. 2 days before Christmas the owner turned up and said she had changed her mind as her friends daughter wanted a pony . That must have been an awful Xmas for my...

We used to have jets taking off right next to the field, and landing overhead on the beach. They don't seem to mind it so much, and certainly have adjusted quickly to it all. I would go and see how she feels about it- probably won't even notice!

What an odd woman! The general gist is that the reporter and the 'experts' think it is wrong and cruel and don't understand why she would feel the need to do that, and that the horse won't understand, the circle is too small etc etc.. On the plus side the video got her convicted of animal...

I just watched this to see what the fuss was about and saw a few passable riders in a row and then some dodgy ones ( not helped by the horse/rider/atmosphere combination). Alot of the horses didn't look exactly point and shoot which didn't make things any easier for the riders ( many of whom, I...