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I have looked at these, and now there is the Bigster which is a larger vehicle, but I don't think they are really towing cars, sadly.

As I have recounted in the past, my dope on a rope horse turned into a raving lunatic after 6 weeks of box rest when I was supposed to be giving him walking exercise. I couldn't turn him out until he was doing 1 hour's work. Um, the vet didn't see him rear and buck his way down the road, after...

So let's just add the Karl Phillipe french school of riding! Isn't that what he teaches? All roads lead to Rome, it's just the method of getting there. I so wish that there was an instructor within easy reach, but sadly they are all miles awa.

That's a good idea!

It sounds as if you have different choices in France. In the UK under a certain value the insurance company doesn't require a vet's certificate. There are also some "Catastrophe" cover which will cover colic surgery, a bad accident, etc, depending on the exact policy but there is a very high...

I've been giving my unridden old pony Top Spec Fibre mash cubes, and he has put on weight. He was worryingly thin in the autumn, although he had plenty to eat and added linseed oil on the advice of the vet. But saw Top Spec stand at a show and they said to feed him the fibre cubes soaked and...

I had an Owners Group horse that broke his pelvis and returned to racing, he won again, but he was obviously "one of those" and kept getting injuries, so he was retired after a training setback. He was rehomed after recovering.

That was a shame, I was really looking forward to seeing him run after the fabulous win over Christmas, when he went round on wings.

I went to a talk from an equine holiday company once. She said riders won't travel with their horse much over 2 hours to a holiday stay and they tend to be more interested in their horse's accommodation than their own! Think bio-security. Separate paddocks for each visitor, and scrub out the...

Being half saddlebred he is naturally going to have a high head carriage, that is how they are. But could stem from early breaking-in, was he broken as a saddlebred with all the tack and long reining?

I haven't any good suggestions to offer, sorry, but it does sound really awful. It seems with horses that there often runs of bad luck, injuries and we scratch our heads and wonder what on earth is going on, when we are doing everything we can to keep them well and healthy. I think the...

I had one with lame/sound/lame/sound. As this was going on and on the senior vet came out with her X ray machine as she thought there might be a fracture. Turned out that is was a very deep abscess that was moving around the hoof rather than popping out. She had a deeper dig, but there was...

Two and half acres for two small ponies is quite a lot really. Our field was that big and we never had a problem and at one time even made hay from the field, even with a couple of ponies. However, the land was light and didn't get poached and muddy in the winter apart from by the gate. It is...

This was originally the cut off date for applying to put new (based on old evidence) on the Definitive Map. In other words what we have now would always be the same, and there was also a discussion about the List of Streets and white lanes (rather technical and I can't remember the eventual...

I agree with the above. It is so hard when they are your horses and you love them. But someone who is not involved can take a more distant view. It is even more hard when one is young, but if you kept him he is going be doing nothing, living in a field for the next 15 or so years. I think...