Recent content by Mabel98

Thank you, yes, fingers crossed for pus in the foot or even better a complete recovery!

??? What do you mean? Sorry, confused.....

My mare is lame on her off hind. I rode her this morning and she was absolutely fine but when I brought her in from the field tonight, she is about 5/10 lame. No swelling or obvious injury and she is normally tough and sound. Any ideas please........... Thanks

Have found the programme from last year and there wasn't a ditch/brush or ditch/pallisade. There was a trakehner though!

No photos I'm afraid but I walked the course last year and thought it would do as a first novice. A few years ago it was made very technical but it looked fine last year, a bit twisty but not big. Hope that helps a bit

They don't put as much pressure on the tongue as they are suspended in the mouth and also have a degree of poll pressure which can help a hollow horse to soften. As already said, I find some love them, some hate them!

I guess it depends on how fit you want your horse to be. I am doing BE100 and I rarely do more than 30 mins in the school, 20 on the lunge. I hack for about 50 mins up and down steep hills which gets them much fitter than riding on flat terrain. It also depends on what kind of horse you have, a...

The secret is to be really well organised, i.e. fill haynets at weekend, make up feeds, deep litter during the week. It's hard work in the winter but much easier this time of year!

It probably took over a year for my leg to look the same as the other one.....do all the exercises you are told to do and go swimming, it did really help, in fact I could swim before I could walk (once I could get in the pool of course!) Good luck

I broke my tibial plateau, pinned and plated. Took 12 weeks before i could walk then found swimming helped hugely to build strength again. I don't use a knee support, makes no difference to me.

I withdrew last weekend as the ground was so hard and rough, definitely no watering even for the BE Intermediate!

Wow, amazing photos, especially of the view from the road!

Really interesting thanks. Sounds quite similiar to a Lucinda Green clinic i did where she made us walk to fences and through empty wings.

She is seriously lovely and looks a lot more muscular in the most recent photo, esp in front of her wither. Well done, she is a credit to you!

Great pics, thanks. Looks unbelievably scary!