Recent content by mrogers

Well after about 15 years off ponies, I recently brought a 5yr old sec C stallion, Crossfield Llawen, AKA Ted. We brought him home towards the end of February, unbroken and straight from the field, although his inhand show record is outstanding! Anyway after a tricky few weeks of...

Also stable kept horses nearly always beat grass kept horses in a mixed condition class anyway as they tend not to have grass bellys.

although my bestie uses a hanging cheek and Weymouth in dressage, it will be farrrrr too much furniture for showing. If your mare likes a fixed bit, I would go for an eggbut snaffle and fixed Weymouth. Don't forget you can also try different curbs ie elastic/leather/chain if she is a little...

I agree. You will always have people that are novices at showing without the correct kit which is fair enough but they should still be tidy ie gloves, hairnets etc I think the problem is that when novices ask for advice, people say "oh its only a local show, you dont need to worry" well...

We make rosettes so have had all the colour combinations in the world, the good ones and the horrific!! Your range of colours will depend on what colours their supplier does. Why not ask them for a colour swatch? When we started with one supplier, they had very traditional colours. The supplier...

balls! its a friends video, but when I shared it I clicked on the box for public, does this work? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152475420425555

This is my super star 4yr old Siange Sweetheart. Today we done stessage for the 2nd time and it is only Indies 3rd ridden outing (I hate stressage, like seriously DETEST it!!!). On her first outing we done the intro and prelim where we were 5th and 1st respectively. For some reason, I though it...

splints are really only a problem for local judges as they are easy to spot. Affiliated judges know more about conformation so aren't as bothered. Ive shown successfully at all levels with horses with splints, a friend of mine even qualified a hunter for HOYS with them! Just brush the hair the...

The bspa classes would have a lot more serious showing people in as it is affliated to a society so I assume it would have some sort of qualifier attached to it. He is very nice though so maybe put him in and see how he places against the bigger boys. I personally would avoid the "type" classes...

I don't mind queuing, I soon learnt that if you got in there mid day you could walk straight in and have hot water. Got to say though, I do look forward to Broomes where we hire a cabin so can just lounge about in towels without putting clothes on whilst half wet

Everything I have ridden in one has loved it. I find the cobs with fleshy tongues especially go well in them

My bestie Nicola Stanton competes at Medium on her welsh sec D Midnight Flyer, last year she won elementary champion at the welsh championships and hopes to be at advanced medium by the end of the year

native pony wh saddle, mine has fitted everything from 13.2 sec c to 15.2 wb x tb

It all depends on the horse but usually when they work from the leg into the bridle. My last pony I never taught it too as he was very nappy but current baby is now 4 and well established in rein back

he looks a nice sort but at 14 he would be against horses 10 years younger. I personally would do a year at local shows and then look at it again. He would then be 15 and could do the olympia qualifiers which is focused less on the conformation etc but how well the horse is looking and moving...