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Out of sheer curiosity how much would a decent Irish Draught youngster be worth?

I've used de-fuse for jumping before. It certainly lit de-fuse lol. My horse went pure belter on it, jumped all he fences clear and ran like the wind. Aye.

This one time me and Bobby were out for a hack and 3 huge articulated lorries in a convoy sounded their air horns, he never batted an eyelid. 2 minutes later on the bridleway a vagrant flashed at us and he went absolutely crazy, flighty as a flywhopper, honestly, you'd think he'd never seen a...

Tear stains? VOMMMM!!!

I've heard that Anthony Hopkins is doing Badminton this year but have no idea if its true.

My electronic coat, the 'Hot Tummy Snug Bummy', my boyfriend ordered it for me specially from Russia. It was really expensive but it keeps you so warm and it glows in the dark too!

Helmet Schmelmet!

I just wear normal knickers and pop a Tena Lady or two in. Works a treat!

I got one from the pound shop, it's really warm. Can't remember how much it was though, think it might have been a pound.

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The best fillies are quite often retained by the studs as future brood mares. Having said that you can still find them. Either source from the studs direct or try Horsequest or HorseGossip.

Sorry OP, no useful advice re supplEments, but just wanted to say that if there are many Ds that have been placed RWAS going through the sales ring for 'a few quid' please let me know here as I'll have 10!! Good luck with your lovely colt, I'm sure all will be well in the end.

Right, this is going to sound stupid but when you get on just quietly repeat hummmm, hummmahhhh, hummmmm, hummmhummmahhhh, it's instantly calming and also seems to calm the horse too.

In Kazakhstan they believe that it's down to the cannon bone, some of you may be familiar with this little adage'- "if the cannon is strong his life will be long, if the cannon is shunted his life will be stunted' i'm not even sure exactly what it means but they swear by it.

Yes, you can soak haylage, just put a lot of water on it till it's really wet. Good Luck OP.