Recent content by Mr_Ed

Someone suggested that I mentioned this item that is currently posted in the Latest News section. It will be useful to get as much feedback as possible so please take part, have a look, vote and comment if you wish. The question is "Should livery yards have someone competent living on site?"...

Someone suggested that I mentioned this item that is currently posted in the Latest News section. It will be useful to get as much feedback as possible so please take part, have a look, vote and comment if you wish. The question is "Should livery yards have someone competent living on site?"...

I probably should have added that if you're a human with any type of bad intent which yard are you going to choose? The one with a site presence or the one with no-one around?

As the author of this post I thought it might be useful to add my thoughts. I've kept horses at different livery yards for a number of years. All of the livery yards have had the proprietors either living directly on site or the houses have had view of the yards. Very often these might just...

Not strictly news (yet!), so I hope you don't mind me posting here - I just didn't want it to disappear too quickly as it would be great if as many people as possible could take part in the poll. Should livery yards (or others who have custody of horses for financial gain) have someone...

"AN equestrian centre owner must pay an extra €30,000 in damages to a solicitor because of "outrageous" fraud allegations made in a lawsuit over a horse riding accident. Mr Hennessy sought damages arising out of an accident on February 22, 2004 when he suffered an injury after he came off a...

Many thanks to you all for your help. Very useful and much appreciated.

Haven't bought any rubber stable matting for a while. Can anyone help in making a recommendation of what's good at the moment? Appox price? Thanks.

[ QUOTE ] ... in my opinion the only person at fault in all this is the girl herself as if she was working on this yard then she would have known what the horse was like and how to deal with it. [/ QUOTE ] I've said it in an earlier post - that I don't think any of us have enough facts about...

BBC News report on the accident: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/7728006.stm

(DEFRA) Consultation launched on changes to horse identification legislation Defra has launched a consultation to revise the existing equine identification legislation. The consultation period runs from 10th November 2008 to 10 February 2009. The main requirement for the new Horse...

This is a very tragic case. We know that a young girl was kicked and she died. There have been many presumptions made on the information given. That's understandable but I wonder if we have all the facts? For example we don't know if the young girl was wearing a hat or not - or indeed what...

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has today launched a consultation on new codes of practices for cats, dogs and horses, that will offer practical advice on pet ownership. More details at: http://www.ridingsafely.net/latest.html under "Horse Welfare".

Sunbeds boost for sad horses Journalism at its best... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1740647.ece

" Forgotten your jodhpurs, girls? Showjumping makes a desperate bid to find a new 21st Century image It's not a pose that you can easily imagine David Broome striking. But in a desperate attempt to update the stuffy image of showjumping, the sport’s bosses have persuaded two of the top young...