Recent content by loobylu

I really enjoyed my stage 4, although I did manage to fail the lungeing a horse for improvement 3 times... as Ruth says It was much more a practical ' get on with it'/ talk from your own experience type of exam rather than regurgitating text book answers. ITT the same if your are thinking...

Great work- looking at syllabus and there's lots to it.

Tkmaxx often have Musto stock.

I very rarely canter my own horse out hacking. We have very little off road riding, so he does our one quiet back road 5 mile loop up and then across and down a big hill, takes approx 20mins to trot slowly to highest point, then 30mins walk back down. Twice a week. This combined with work in the...

Drumcarrow/ Lohoar Sport Horses is 15mins from Sandra's. They have homebreds as well as horses bought from Holland and Ireland.

Google the British Grooms Association's travel insurance, then give them a call. Very helpful, with lots of added benefits.

Shorten her forelock. :-) I bought medium for my 15.2 pony cross and they are unwearably small.

I loved the Stable Management exam - much more discussion rather than spouting out lines from a book. Had an actual lame horse to assess too. I also sat my riding, passed everything but the lunging first time in 2011 and have still to pass the ruddy thing. I haven't competed above BE100 but I...

Lots of light seat work til you can canter around quite happily in balance, even if just trotting over jumps. Jumping is scary if you're not secure so working on the stability of your lower leg will help long term. Then cantering over poles several times a week until that's easy and normal. Then...

I'd be a bit concerned about it being weaned already to be honest, aside from the rest which is clearly bonkers. When on earth was foal born?

Saved?! Jeepers... There are some awful riding schools but equally there are many set ups in the industry I'd sell my horses to over a private home. Any decent riding school horse will be fed, shod regularly, in regular work and have its schooling maintained by staff. I've seen plenty of...

Where in Scotland are you?

This is not aimed at you OP but does explain why the good ones go! Do sensible, conscientious, reliable, efficient, intelligent, presentable, workers, with 10 years professional experience, as well as some reasonably rigorous qualifications ( BHS Int SM, AI and stage 4 riding, lorry and...

I know plenty who do, but I find raked or solo combed manes difficult to plait, as the end isn't as thin and tapered so splays out when I twist the end of the plait around itself before folding up.

If I can't achieve trot in a straight line due to sleet/rain combo I tend to give up.