Recent content by lozzles

Back when I was a lot slimmer I used to ride our 14hh new forest. She was relatively chunky but not actually that wide barreled so the main issue was her taking up my leg. I'm 5'7 but 32 inch inside leg. Looked fine on her but used a GP saddle. A dressage saddle would have meant dangly legs😂

Interesting as we had an ISH we took to an endurance ride years ago. Always very easy to get and keep fit and he mainly evented. I remember the vet getting the students to listen to his heart as it was dropping beats. In his case they considered it a good sign of his fitness. Had no idea it...

Our spaniel had one but hers was corrected when she was spayed and we never noticed it after that

Mine had a partial avulsion years ago. I followed the rehab plan and he also had shock wave therapy. I stopped jumping him but he went back to competing dressage

I definitely had a collar run on mine so worth trying to waterproof it!

I think people forget just like in humans horses age differently. We lost a pony to cancer at 21 and a large sport horse type at 29 both the right decision for them. Having seen the 29 year olds much loved but much younger companion go through grieving his friend I can absolutely see the...

I hate to say it but mine went up a rug size at seven! Luckily very experienced saddle fitter when I bought him at seven said to me he thought he'd still got growing to do so we started in a wintec and then changed to a leather saddle once he'd stopped filling out

I don't know if I've been lucky but bought all sorts from them over the years and mine live out so the rugs are certainly well tested.

I'm not sure of the best make for a finer build but my swish rugs are great for my broad-shouldered warmblood. Never leak and I've had some for years.

The only thing with the bloods is you might want to retest for a better picture when he's better. I was told stress can affect it

Thought it was useful to follow up on this. He had his check up appointment after the diastema was widened and everything had healed nicely. So pleased and great news going into winter

I would brave moving now. A one off incident would be one thing but they should have been super cautious after what happened before.

I had missed he's had three weeks off. Id definitely check saddle fit hasn't changed in that time.

I used to use an equyss product for hair regrowth that protected it as well and seemed to work well. Lavender no rinse for spot cleans and hot washing. Quic silver was expensive but the best I found for shampooing.

As a one off isolated incident it might just be a combo of grass freshness etc. We had a gorgeous ISH who ninety percent of the time your granny could ride and ten percent of the time would throw in massive bucks. Never really got to the bottom of what would trigger it. They got less as he got...