Recent content by Pennyhp

I am ordering Dublin Summit or Apex jodhpur boots online. I live in Canada and so I cant go and try any on. Whats the general consensus on their sizing. Are they true to size or do they come up a bit smaller or large than size. I realize this isn't a fool proof thing. I just would like to...

Thank you all for your recommendations. I will peruse all at my leisure.

I have lived in Canada for the last 10 years and we don't have anywhere near the kind of choice of equestrian goods as in the UK. I used to buy from Equestrian Clearance and got some good deals over the years even given the price of import etc. Now they have gone I am at a bit of a loss. Does...

Just make sure you got the correct gullet. They have different ones for different saddles. I bought a Tekna Club saddle and the wide gullet I ordered for it was for the GP/DR series not the Club. The club gullets are much shorter.

Hi all. I live in NB Canada and use a couple of websites for downloading British tv. I was very sad that no one uploaded the Hickstead Derby so I haven't been able to watch it this year. Does anyone know of any site I could download it from? Would love to see it? Thanks Penny

I have no idea who they are. They comentate for CBC. They just don't give the kind of insite that Stephen Hadley does. I know Mike Tucker talks a lot of old Tosh...but he does sound nice and yes heb drives me nuts with his silly remarks. I think it's probably a bit of nostalgia for the old...

I live in Canada and watched some of the BBC coverage of the cross country by downloading it on my laptop. Yes Mike Tucker is annoying, but as has been mentioned he has a lovely voice and he had Ian Stark there to correct him on occassion and to give us a proper perpspective on things. This...

I get really upset about this kind of thing. Here in Canada i see so many of these adds. Its always that they don't have the time the poor horse deserves blah blah. what they mean is they want to buy younger horses - usually to breed to an indiscriminent unregisterd stallion - and havn't got...

Oh thank you all for your help. And thank you donkeymad for the link to the donkey forum. I have signed up already. I put a pic of Muffin as my avatar. Cute isn't she?

Thank you both for your replies. I would love to take advantage of the donkey Sanctuary classes but I don't live in the UK anymore. I am now in Canada. I have read up on some of the general care such as the donkeys inability to keep warm in wet weather and that they need always to have...

I have just been given a miniature donkey. She is adorable and I am very exited to have her. But I know very little about donkeys in general and miniatures in particular. I think she is a little overweight but doesn't look excessivly so, but what worries me is that she has a few lumpy bits on...

Thank everyone. I am out of practice with such things as I said I had been out of the horse world for a long time before I came here, but I am relearning things and remembering stuff all the time. Yes I can understand that there are differences of opinions between farriers about this to a...

My farrier came to trim my horse and I asked her to do another one that is at livery with me. This horse is usually trimmed by another farrier. She did the horses feet but said at the the end that she hadn't taken too much off because each farrier sets the feet at a different angle and she...

My lot playing in the snow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ngfmpr3NnE We get lots and lots of snow here. They would be in all winter if I waited for it to be gone. I can tell you one thing its a lot better than mud...

We have around 6 inches of snow on the ground and it is minus 15 + an ungodly wind chill this morning. My horses will be out in their rugs and they are absolutely fine. The day time high will be no more than minus 9 today. They will eat a bale of hay between them and they keep toasty warm...