Recent content by Marigold4

I found a feral kitten and the children insisted we keep it. It bit and scratched everyone. We looked after her for 16 long years.

Goals for last year Goal 1 do some Prelim dressage tests on my anxious little horse. We did it, with mixed results, but pleased we achieved cantering in an indoor school and made a reasonably good job of it with a range of marks in the 60s. Goal 2 get youngster out to shows. We went to 5...

Agree - worm count is not enough. Blood test for encysted red worm and tape worm urgently.

We think alike! This too is my plan: weekly lessons and milestones. I think I need some goals otherwise I might be tempted to just give up! I'm hoping to move shortly to a place with a school so that will help enormously.

I'm sorry to hear this. Horses are such a commitment, aren't they? It's so difficult to get a break from them. It's really hard to know what to do for the best as he has this issue and needs corrective farriery. I'm really not sure what I would do in your shoes. It's a really tricky one as if...

No, this was a riding club one. Perhaps Xmas has put all dressage judges in a bad mood!

It is frustrating, isn't it? I'm going to stop participating in dressage competitions for a good while now. Maybe I can find some mojo in a year's time. I don't have my own school, so have to travel and hire to practise and for lessons. It's a lot of effort and expense. I don't enjoy the...

It was an online test and we lost several marks for being left of the centreline. I don't usually lose marks for that. We always wobble up the centreline at the start but are pretty accurate. There were 4 up the centreline movements and each time the remark was that we missed the centreline and...

Our marks are getting worse! We have done 3 prelims: 68 65 63

Well actually they do! It was the same judge for the last test which was a bit all over the place and worse in terms of consistent contact, but we got higher marks for the previous one :D

It's difficult to know as we also get comments on his lovely paces. He is a tense horse though and it's difficult to achieve a consistent contact with him. I thought this last test was much more relaxed so was hoping to see this reflected. Hey ho.

You are right - it's a scoring error. I've contacted them and they've corrected it.

I recently got some marks back from an online dressage competition. The overall marks awarded were 159.5 but then there was another number "marks to count" was 153. Not sure what that means? We didn't get any penalties. I got comments that I should get my horse to be softer over his back. What...

I have a connie v warmblood filly, now 2.5. The warmblood bit is oldenburg. She is an absolute unit! Definitely not weedy. Masses of bone. She is 14.3 and is likely to be 15.1. Here she is.

I bought a youngster to keep my homebred foal company after weaning. She didn't play with the other foal and only wanted to hang out with her half brother and mother. I sent my foal's mother away for weaning for 4 months. I tried to keep them apart when the mare came back, but my mare wasn't...