Recent content by nettle

Beekeeping. Every bit as complicated as horses but slightly cheaper. And you get some honey(sometimes).

Mullen mouth pelham with two reins? If you are able to ride with double reins and understand the different actions. You can always put two reins on your usual bit and practise like that for a while to get used to the extra in your hand.

I think the warm up should be open to public viewing and all horses in the warm up should be individually followed by a camera and recorded, then each warmup video should be marked by a judge and those marks count towards the final score. Complicated and long winded? Yes. And there should be...

Send the offenders to Anja Beran’s for compulsory reeducation. (Actually I’m sure she wouldn’t have them on her yard, certainly not on her horses)

Well that was grim.

Full cheek snaffle and lunge line over the head?

There’s a reason someone gave her the nickname ‘Edwina Scissorhands’ 😢

My wide flat backed Highland x was in a Wow, worked really well on him. Good fitter is essential, same as any saddle.

Are they on mains water or a private supply? Definitely get water tested if on private supply. Have the vets made any comment re ongoing issues?

Yes, this exactly. ‘All behaviour is communication’ Acquaintance has a lovely young horse, behaviour has got gradually worse and worse until she decided to send him away for training. With a ‘strong’ rider the horse did go forward, then quite quickly became clearly lame behind. Vet investigated...

Jacqui Billington?

Is there shelter from trees, hedges etc? If they can’t get out of the wind they can get very unsettled.

It’s interesting that a lot of the fb accounts posting in favour of CD don’t appear to be active in the same time zone as the UK. Or maybe it’s just FB being weird.

Given that the person was taking the BHSI exam and failed to notice to riders crookedness and sitting off to one side, I think the ‘tone’ of the comments is least of the problems. There is far too much bad riding going uncorrected these days.

If you are going to start in hand, the Oliver Hilberger book is really good. https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9783861279648/Schooling-Exercises-Hand-Working-Suppleness-3861279649/plp