Recent content by racypawz

Thank you all very much for your feedback, it's very much appreciated. I've given it a lot of thought and I hope she'll continue elsewhere. Last week she didn't want to go horse riding, she was close to tears because they won't let her try on her own. I've watched her, over the years, be...

I've just been talking to a lady who said the same thing about balance exercises. They have NEVER done any riding without reins, rotating arms, touching head etc. We occasionally do 'around the world', stationary, at the end. It seems we've got so far and just stopped. And it's very expensive!

Forgot to say, she rides every 2 weeks for an hour. We had a pony at home on loan for a while when she was 3 so is quite confident around ponies. We couldn't keep him because he had laminitis and asthma - couldn't live in and our paddocks were too lush, so we had to move him back to his home...

Thank you everybody, I feel reassured now, and not a pushy parent. The school does have small ponies (which even I have learnt to trust in the 3 years I've been there!) I just wanted to know if teaching horse riding had changed so dramatically in the 30 years since I was a beginner. One of the...

Hi. My 7 year old little girl is coming up to her third Christmas at our local riding school...and is still being lead, walking and trotting only. She's itching to have a go on her own, and has done on friends ponies, really enjoyed it. But the riding school are reluctant, saying she is not...