Recent content by LadyGascoyne

I think it is worth considering that there are apparently over 13 million dogs in the UK. There is increasing urbanization, and more and more dogs are living in an increasingly human and constrained world. There are definitely some people who shouldn't have dogs, some dogs which are inherently...

Oooh lovely 😍 I love Dales ponies.

Personal recommendations or riding style for me, and then how they approach my horses. I have two pretty little part-bred Arabs who aren't big, talented sports horses and are never going to compete seriously against the purpose-bred warmbloods. If I get the slightest hint that someone isn't...

This is such a good point. If formula one can do it, surely racing can?

Our dressage coach specialises in working with Iberian horses - I can pm you her details if it's helpful. She will broker horses for clients too. Ours are actually partbred Arab not Iberian but I like how good she is at working with horses that are not the usual warmblood brains. Her clients are...

Thanks for posting that - the one thing about the radio commentary is that you hear when they have fallen but not that they are back up again.

I haven't been able to watch jump racing for a few years - I just get too nervous. I am listening on bbc radio online.

I'm sorry you're going through this - and that he is too. What do his feet and conformation look like? And what breed and type is he?

But that's the thing, really - it can't be their job. They are only employed to do the job of riding races with the aim to win. Jockeys who routinely question the soundness, fitness or welfare interests of horses would find themselves out of a job very quickly, and it's an already brutal...

I agree it's quite plausible that the jockey did not know how badly injured the horse was. But I do think that after a horse made such a bad mistake, the jockey is likely to have been aware that the horse wasn't feeling quite the same as it had been. I know that if one of my horses were to...

We've had our horses on some fantastic yards and at home, and I've had horses since I was a child, for over 30 years. There really are some great yards out there, so I wouldn't give up. I have only ever had one livery situation which made me unhappy where the yard owners who didn't know much...

I'd say this is the crux of your issues, coupled with the spring grass and it being cow grass. If she's only rising 2 and has no one to play with, she's probably very bored, now on a sugar high, and seeing her interactions with you as play time. If you aren't willing to move her, then could...

We did all the planning, booked the appointment in Rome, got the right kind of officiant sorted out, got our lawyers to speak to Italian lawyers, literally everything. Only for them to ask for my husband's birth certificate about three weeks before the wedding, which of course he didn't have and...

We got married in Italy precisely because we had friends and family in so many different countries. We felt it was easier for us to pick somewhere neutral and we figured there is no one in the world who wouldn't like a holiday in Italy. We found a villa we could rent for a whole week for the...

I read it as "dealers need not apply."