Recent content by owentm1

Ditto Megan for the horse. You should preferably wear a tweed jacket, beige, cream or canary jods, long boots or jodphur boots and chaps are OK at local level. Velvet show hat - blue is preferable with natural coloured harness. Shirt and tie or stock. Don't forget a hairnet if your hair is...

Hi Sophie You can learn a lot by just watching showing at local shows; what people wear, the horses' way of going etc., which is how we learnt. There are also lots of showing clinics around at this time of year so its worth looking around to see if there's any being held at your local...

There is progeny of Willowbridge Morning Glory born in 2004 for sale on here:- http://www.herefordequestrian.co.uk/classified-ads/horses-for-sale/

My daughter saw our coloured american saddlebred/arab mare (who was unbroken at the time) for sale/loan with a view to buy by breeder in a local paper. We went to see her and loved her, but couldn't afford the asking price. Following a 'phone call to the owner, she allowed us to put a...

If your problem or worry is water, is there anywhere you can go and practise before Sunday? If not an actual cross country course, what about local ponds and streams you can go and try splashing in to get both your confidences up? If all else fails, Mrs_Wishkabibble is right, treat is as a...

We live in the Forest of Dean and find that the problem motorcyclists are the ones that ride illegally on the forest tracks. The horses live on a farm so are used to all kinds of vehicular and animal noises, but these seem to be far noisier than the standard road bikes and seem to put the fear...

I bought my daughter some online for Christmas last year at a good price. She's tall and skinny and has quite wide feet, but they fit her well. Now we've come through a showing season with the boots, I'm really disappointed because the lining behind the laces is coming away (non-leather I...

Definitely brown for showing as the others have stated - particularly on a chestnut pony. My daughter started off with a straight cut cheapie suede saddle with no knee rolls. This might come as a bit of a shock to a youngster if they're not used to it. We've now moved on to a Fylde...

DC's are the District Commissioners who run the Pony Club branches voluntarily. Definitely a green/brown tweed would look best with a chestnut pony. Tweeds these days tend to have several colours running through them, so you could pick one of the other colours out for her tie etc. and the...

Saw this on eBay this evening and have read somewhere else that this is a good remedy:- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SWEET-ITCH-SOLVED-Buy-town-20-years-tested-WORKS-/120420383208?pt=UK_Horse_Wear_Equipment&hash=item1c099d39e8 Hope that helps! :D

Thank you so much wispagold. That's really helpful. Just wish schedules, BSPS rules we're clearer for novices such as ourselves :confused:!! Many thanks.

We've had a schedule for a local small agricultural show, which includes some BSPS classes, although it seems to indicate that you don't have to be members to enter. We'd really like to try Intermediate Show Riding Type with our novice mare as we think she'd fit into this category quite well...

We have a lovely 7 year old coloured arab cross mare which we bought for showing and broke in February this year. She was very easy to back and was soon hacking out with our other horse. We've had some schooling problems and she took a little while to get her confidence in canter and still...