Recent content by Nari

Is this a saddler you've been using a long time or would you consider getting a different set of eyes on it?

Have you spoken to your saddle fitter again? It may be that the new flocking has bedded down a bit and he can tweak it a bit to help you without affecting your horse.

Mine is driving bred, big shoulders but also a big active hind end, I did at one point wonder if anything other than harness would fit, be acceptable to him, and stay in place. The answer for him seems to have been an Erreplus with their SL system. I think you need to find a good fitter that...

Adding to this, if you get the chance and your horses are safe then do stop and chat to people, let their kids fuss them etc. It's a little thing but it can make them see us and our horses as more than just something on the road, and if we're lucky they'll talk to friends and family too. Once...

While I don't have regular lessons nowadays it would still be a deal breaker for me because of the attitude it implies.

I've seen many yards with schools I wouldn't be prepared to work a horse in, I don;t se why you should charge less than them. At my current yard plenty of liveries don't use the school so people like that also wouldn't expect a lower rate bcause you don't hav a facility they don'twant anyway.

If you try rubber be sure to feel it and bend it, someare harder than others. Happy Mouth is almost certainly not what you want, it's hard and rigid and if the horse is at all mouthy it quickly develops sharp edges.

For that, as long as the turnout was genuinely all year regardless of how wet the ground is, I wouldn't be lookng for a reduction.

Nathe are flexible and soft as well as being fairly slim.

Years ago my RID had a GA for colic surgery and with his breeding we were nearly as worried about the GA as the colic, but it was his only chance. He was fine. I mentioned to them that he was inclined to panic so they put him in assisited recovery and brought him round slowly, it might be worth...

How d you feel about her? If you don't buy her will you always wonder where she is, if she's ok? Will every other horse you look at have you thinking that it's not her? If the answers are yes then go for it, if you like her that much you'll find a way around problems and work things out so that...

Do you have a picture of tthe bit? What is it that makes it not dressage legal?

THis is what I'd do, I wouldn't rescope unless I felt it was needed because he was getting worse again.

Would it be worth usinng a transporter with a 7.5T or biggr lorry to travel him back to the vets? It should give a more stable ride, and a bigger lorry will mean he has more space.

I always wonder when eople advse loan/share whether they'd be happy to let a novice use their horse as a learning curve to make mistakes with and learn from? I know I wouldn't. Not aimed at you @HelenMac