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Another one who saw the email and had to find out how it was all going! thank you for the update. That looks like Allens Hill so I guess you aren't to far away from me?

It was a beautifully ridden round and all credit to Bertram for taking it on the chin with dignity in the backstage footage. Its a chestnut horse, they are notorious for marking easily. Bad stewarding in my opinion unless there was blood showing but didn't look like it from the footage we could...

I've been very polite and got out of the way of a presence which was squeezing past me in a corridor where I was drying my hair, didn't see anyone but felt someone brush past me and the floorboards flex as they would do if someone walked by. I've also been a guest at a dinner in a cornish...

Lovely post and I feel your pain! We went through the same anguish with 12hh Poppy who was diagnosed with cushings at 11 just a year after we got her. She gave Amy 4 years of the best confidence and fun ever and we just could not sell her on but with the right management she was no where near...

Well done! Sounds like a great confidence giving outing. Swalcliffe is good for that. He looks lovely!

Oooh, have fun! As the others say, allow masses of time so you don't have to rush anything. I write a timetable each time we go backtracking to breakfast, plaiting and getting up and it seems to work. And also don't worry about the time first time out, just keep in a comfortable rhythm then...

We tend to do a short hack... 45 mins of gentle roadwork or some trot and slow canter work in the fields but not schooling the day before.

The ginga ninja Simba had his second run over an affiliated course this weekend, and his second top ten placing! Amy has been working hard on both him and on bringing Mallow back into fitness following six months off to rest her back following a bit of nodular skin disease and is now enjoying...

I knew a young irish horse once who displayed similar symptoms but the owner sold it on, 6 weeks later it ran into a stone wall and killed itself. Brain tumour found at post mortem. I honestly think you are doing the right thing. And so sorry to hear of your own health problem.

...when you know you've both done your best and are just enjoying each other's company. I love this picture, taken the day after Amy and her young horse had a very creditable outing in the 90 at Aston le Walls. They both had fun all day!

Totally agree.

Ha, but do you need one on his passport?! Technically, yes :)

And very tasty he is too. And definitely undersold. Looking as though you've already forged a good partnership! Please ignore my grammatically incorrect sentences. :) I also thought I'd just suffered the apostrophe crisis with BE then I went back and read his passport...no ' so grumpy pants for...

What a cutie! Well done, they'll be coming on in leaps and bounds now. (I was 38 when I got my first pony :) )

I remember it! And entered it a few times. I think it had a portrait of a pretty wh type pale palomino on its advert. I didn't get my first pony though until I was 38 :(