Recent content by Pippity

I'll be honest, I don't get the neck-strap-as-emergency-brake thing. If my horse is ignoring my rein, seat and voice aids to stop, I don't understand why she'd decide to listen to the neck strap.

Hopefully OP has managed to find what they're looking for in the three years since they first posted their query!

I was responsible for a plane being stopped on the tarmac so I could be retrieved. My father was an aircraft engineer and his wife was cabin crew. During school holidays, I'd frequently be left to run wild around the airport. I was also given a stack of boarding passes to play with - the...

The one I bought (wrong) is just a single strap designed to clip onto a roller.

Ah, sod, I've just realised it isn't the proper Equiband one. It's Equine Balance Bands (which have a far more professional-looking website and branding than anything I've found for the legit Equibands). That's a really generous offer, thank you. I'll PM you.

On my vet and physio's recommendation, I've got an equiband to use during Blue's rehab. It's just the quick-click one that goes round the bum and attaches to the roller, rather than the full system with the saddlepad. However, it simply will not stay in place. After a couple of steps, it...

I rode at a Parelli trekking centre once, in New Zealand. My horse seemed absolutely shut down and uninterested in the world, until I accidentally gave him 'standard' English-style cues, at which point he perked up and became a nice ride. (I was the only person on the ride with any experience...

A lot of people posting to this sort of group are in rural America, frequently many hours from a equine vet, and often many hours from a vet of any description. Would I breed in those circumstances? No. But it's a very different mindset.

I think you'd be surprised. If she's a schoolmistress at the lower levels, I suspect you'd find people biting your hand off to ride her. My first share horse had been competing at adv med before a field injury ended her career. She was an absolute dream as a first horse out of riding school, and...

Background: Horse lobbed me off at the end of last year, resulting in a fractured spine. (Mine, not hers!) She's been out of work since. I want to do some in-hand walking with her, to try to burn off at least a little of the flab. However, I haven't managed to completely train out the cob...

I'm just back from a long weekend in the Lake District, and I think I saw ONE well-trained dog in the whole five days. (A working-lines Lab on a bus, sitting quietly with its head on its owners knee.) The rest of the owners seemed to feel that the dog being on a leash was enough, and they didn't...

I've bought people keyrings with their horse's photo in. You can get some nice, solid metal ones, rather than just cheap plastic.

Mine's in Big Horse Shop's Epic zebra-print. Basically because she's built like a brick outhouse and it's the only one that could stretch around her shoulders.

The one time in months that I've had something to report, and nobody started a weekend plans thread! Anyway, today Esther Groen brought her riding simulator to my yard, and I had a biomechanics session. Her simulator is a strange beast - it isn't powered, but is full of springs and things that...

I'd want to see what it looks like underneath, but agreed. The saddle's going to be covering up the stains.