Recent content by myponyvic

Thanks :) Have had a look at both of them. The Casco would look silly on me, plus would have no idea where to find it. I do like the look of the Caldene - my coworker has one. Not sure how my employer would feel about me riding around in a hat that isn't all black though. I work at on a dressage...

Are they as good as people say? I think they are okay. Never really looks 'clean' though. Horses seem to like them though and doesn't take me long to muck out a stable. Used to take me a good 40 minutes to do 3 stables, now it seems to be quicker. Depends on how bad the bed is though. Are they...

Now that it's warming up, I tend to sweat (heavily!) whilst riding. I have a Charles Owen Young Rider Jockey Skull and I hate it. It just absorbs my sweat and then it goes soggy and slips about or gives me a headache. It's a size 7 1/8 but anything smaller is too tight. I have to have my hair in...

I wouldn't say dangerous, just without respect in certain situations. If you say she is good apart from that then she's not dangerous. Dangerous to me is the point where they have hospitalised someone and definitely meant to. I think your horse just needs some manners. The situations in which...

FINALLY! Someone that doesn't think snaffles are the best thing ever. I really don't like some snaffles, not against them though. Mainly the ones that use nutcracker action. I find this can sometimes be very harsh. Also, if fitted incorrectly, the skin can be pinched between the bit and the ring...

My pony used to be in a waterford - still is for jumping. Maybe go for a full cheek waterford? Not legal for dressage but I think it's good apart from that. Can't lean on it because there is nothing to lean on. It just 'collapses'. Good luck :)

I work on a riding school / livery / farm and thus have to poo pick roughly 2-6 fields every day. Luckily I can take the quad bike to most of them with the barrow on the back so I don't have to push a little wheelbarrow everywhere :) Mainly either: Stop pooing Why don't horses get their own poo...

I think you're being a spoil sport in some respects haha. If it's doing no harm to the horse then meh, I don't have much of an opinion. If they fall and break something then it's their fault. Respect to them for having the guts to stand on a horse though. Couldn't pay me enough money to do it...

I use 'expensive lawnmower' far too often. My 'friend' has two ponies, one is a 2 year old and he now owns the 10 year old dam of said pony. Neither of which he can ride. They're both what, 13hh? So why he bought them considering he is now selling them is beyond me. Like I said, expensive...

I think I'd be this horse called Ella at my yard. She's a Dutch Warmblood, but totally lame. Essentially, she stands in her paddock all day eating. Sounds like a good life to me! Haha Or one of those horrendous horses you sometimes find at riding schools that have to be nagged to do anything...

I did mean like a hunting crop aha. I've seen a fair few people call it a stick. Thanks though, didn't know crop was a jumping whip in America :) Always called a jumping crop a short whip, not a schooling/dressage whip.

Not so much a phrase that annoys me, rather just something people do. When people think a horse is a palomino when in reality it's a flaxen chestnut. Or when they're like 'my horse is a dun' um no, that is a bay. Or when people say 'stick' for crop. No no dear, it's a crop. C R O P. I also hate...

Oh my goodness. He is so freaking cute! I have never seen a pony with markings like that. Can we get like a miniature version to come live in my back garden? We have the bricks to build a stable and enough room for one haha. Would save using the lawn mower too.

I really shouldn't have laughed as much as I did at that comment

My horse quite likes jumping. His previous owner used to tank him at a jump though. She really liked him 'wound up' and pretty much jogging on the spot. I now will never go into our jump paddock with him, he just becomes so silly. Even my jumping instructor isn't a fan of riding him in that...