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    Advice on the best early season BE80 for a young horse?

    Thank you guys! Very exciting! We'll see how we go with the first couple of unaffiliated events but Keysoe followed by Ascott sounds like a good plan. Goodluck with the start of the season everyone and thank you for your help!
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    Advice on the best early season BE80 for a young horse?

    I am hoping to get my youngster out doing his first season with BE this year. I have planned to do Aston & Tweseldown Unaffiliated's in April followed by Mattingley Unaffiliated in early May. I have just moved myself and my horse to Buckinghamshire from West Sussex and was hoping to get him out...
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    Other peoples experiences of horses with arthritic hocks

    My 13yr old Novice mare has been diagnosed with bone spavin of the lower hock in her right leg. She passed the vetting when I bought her (including flexions) and was fine for the first 12 months but hasn't been right since August last year...it started with her refusing to jump and gradually...
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    Looking for a young horse to bring on and event - thoughts on Vere Phillips?!

    Spacefaer - Thank you very much for your PM with Vere's numbers! Ill make sure to give him a call tomorrow. Wonkey Donkey - An interesting point, but do you think he's expensive because you're paying for quality? Or do you think you pay more for the fact its from him and he has a good...
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    Looking for a young horse to bring on and event - thoughts on Vere Phillips?!

    My BE novice mare has just been diagnosed with severe bone spavin in her right hock aged 13 and having decided to go down the surgical route followed by 12 months of rehabilitation I've also decided to get cracking with my next event horse. Her future as an event horse is looking unlikely and Im...
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