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At 23 I wouldn’t risk it. There was a lovely horse on my yard when I was younger that had a serious heart murmur, and he was ridden ride...

It’s the using both for one event that makes it look malicious. Having two profiles could be an error - I know that if I were to...

An update - left her with them all day yesterday, just fed her in the field. Today, I went in the afternoon and groomed her in the...

Yeah she’s out with two geldings, and they’re out 24/7, so the issue is getting her to come in and settle at all for grooming/riding...

Ding ding ding, went up this morning and her legs are a total mess. Here’s hoping it settles!

My last horse who got girthy was an Irish import who’d had a stressful few weeks travelling over, moving to a dealer’s yard then moving...

Well, it’s getting worse at the moment. I tried just taking her the other side of the gate into the barn, so that her new friends were...

Yeah absolutely. How closely related genetically are other breeds that you can ‘open’ the studbook too? That’ll vary a lot. At a...

They aren’t, you’re right. But when dealing with small population and rare breeds, the decision to open those populations can be...

I’ve only once seen blood in a horse’s mouth when riding and it was from a horse that had bitten through a happy mouth bit and the sharp...

The thing not captured in this chat though is the effect that excluding horses who are carriers of recessive disease alleles from...

What about someone who rides with you? You can keep a closer eye then on their style? Also you may at some point decide to let them go...

I don’t think over-analysis is remotely the problem in the horse world. If anything, I think a lack of analysis remains the biggest...

This is the key bit that I think is causing the argument here - good quality forage that isn’t deficient in any key vitamins and...

I'm 58 and have owned horses / ponies since the early 70's and I simply don't recall these apparent 'glory days'. "Working horses don't...