Recent content by NZJenny

I gave up looking and had one made. Apart from being tall, which makes them even shorter, am also on the other side of 50 and the world does not need to see my bum encased in white breeches!

All of my horses get oats every day. I'm in New Zealand, and reading the other replies, I'm guessing we have "naked" oats here as well. They don't have anything else added to them if that is what that means. I feed mine whole, you can soak them if you don't want to buy crushed (they go off...

I purchased a second hand fheonix vogue out of curiousity, and hmmm .... mixed. Despite asking for fitting help via the website, I got no answer, so not a great reveiw on that. I also found that it tipped me forward and it sat very low on the horses spine. It was a 17" and I was told that...

You don't need to ride on tarmac. If you have 50 acres on site (hope I'm reading that right), can you hack/walk around that until it gets lighter? I always used to leg up in the dark during the winter, but never on the roads - just to dangerous. But I was lucky enough to have forestry tracks...

Totally identifying with all of this, but who on earth is Kevin and what's he got to do with anything?

I'm useless at remembering songs all the way through, so once I've knocked off all 99 green bottles, it's the NZ National Anthem and Rhinestone Cowboy, which bizarrely, I remember most of.

I always said I would never own a grey, but now I have one I love her dapples and have embraced the work it takes to keep her sparkling. Not too much to add to what has already been said - as a typical NZ horse she lives out 24/7 and has a wardrobe of rugs. She is a bit of a princess and even...

Yet you buy leather sourced from farmed animals.

We are going pole dancing tomorrow morning. Sunday is looking hot, hot, hot - so thinking an early morning hack under the trees then taking myself off to the beach.

People who seem to take pride in being dirty, as in "I never clean my tack/wash my brushes/wash saddle cloth once a year".

I'm sorry to tell you that we aren't done with summer down here yet. So I suggest you suck it up and don't put away the winter woollies for a bit. We get to keep summer until at least the end of February - and then, all things being equal ('cos last winter was revolting!), we are planning on...

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You wouldn't use a stethoscope riding - just at vetting. I didn't find that a HR monitor added anything to my training. It didn't tell me anything I didn't know, so it just wasn't worth the time to put it on. I found riding with a GPS to give me accurate speed and distance a lot more...

There is no accounting for some! My mares favourite "grooming" tool is the pooey rake I use for mucking out! Barely tolerates her lovely soft (and expensive!) Lemiux body brush.

Going for an early morning blat on the beach on Saturday. Hopefully schooling at the local arena on Sunday, but the remnants of another tropical cyclone are heading our way, so might be a tad wet.