Recent content by nellytheelephant

Hiya! I have had a few problems with my young horse stopping and have been told it is mainly due to her saddle. The saddle is resting on her shoulders instead of behind so I have been told I must not jump in this saddle again and that I need to get a new one. My mare is around 16.3 and is a TB...

Hi I'm not very happy with my jumping position as I don't release over jumps. It is like a mental block and I need to start releasing so does anyone have any tips to help me release, like exercises that will help? Many thanks!

Hiya, I have a 16.3 6 year old mare called Nelly. I have been eventing her but at our first BE event a couple of weeks ago we had 3 stops in XC whereas she is usually very keen to do XC and never stops. I took her back to do the unaffiliated ode there at the weekend and she had 3 stops...

Hiya! I've started to do some dressage to music with my 16.2 6 year old mare whom I event at BE90. She is quite the 'alert' type and can be quite whizzy but can also be a lazy mare so I have to find the in between. She focusses well with the right type of music as she has a very big stride. I...

Thank you very much! This really helps I will try that!

Hi thanks for replying! I do feel more comfortable hacking in company but my mare tries to race. I felt that if I could conquer the hacking alone first then I could control her with others. The only other reasonably sensible horse at my yard is my sisters but she tends to go fast so I don't feel...

I rescued my old gelding, Jasper, from a dealers when he was about to go to a knackers yard. He was really nervous and shy and hated being touched. I found that liberty worked with him. I used to lunge him round and then stop suddenly and wait for him to come over to me and slowly we built up...

I have had my own horse for 5 years and I have always been quite nervous hacking. My last horse was a foot perfect 14.3hh bay gelding who was a project who was brilliant out hacking, bar the odd spook, but I found it really hard to hack him as I kept on thinking he was going to spook or bolt and...

Hiya! :) I'm mainly giving advice and asking for help :)