Recent content by saddle sore

apparently, after a heated discussion, the livery that sensibly had her horse tested for strangles, that in turn proved positive,was asked to leave the yard,and was actually blamed by a partner of the business ,for all the problems that surround this ridiculous situation. she left poplar park on...

poplar taking hacks out surely not !!!!!!!!!!!!!! remember the entries in the one day event were not just from the yard, two of them were ridden by the manager,so where is the problem taking out hacks.Full steam ahead, no problems.

re teazle, many of us are well versed with strangles. If well managed the problem can be overcome with minimal suffering of horses and complete recovery. The hysteria here locally, I respectfully suggest, has less to do with the strangles but more to do with the appalling handling of the...

re staverton five days without poplar helper EYES to feed us reliable information ! worrying times .Sadly in general conversations within the horse community there hasnt been one person who has been at all surprised by the mismanagement of this outbreak.

we all hope that the situation can be rectified,but the point is that we are all locally at risk of catching strangles from what appears to be a cover up and incompetence.Nice one poplar park. as a weekend helper you do seem to have a lot of information at hand :confused:

poplar helper stop digging! it seems the lead up to this strangles outbreak was well mismanaged, and a rather devious cover up.Not much use to the local horse community crowing about what poplar park is doing now after they have been rumbled.

re poplar helper,helping at weekends does leave five days without your eyewitness accounts:confused: poplar park were well aware of the possibilities of strangles on the friday before the one day event,and had already informed liveries that tests THEY had done were clear,yet there appears to be...

hi poplar helper, difficult to believe being responsible, taking precautions, would include running three horses in the one day event at the weekend, amongst 200 competitors. At the very least there was a virus already at the yard.