Recent content by sallysim

I don't think horse have a work ethic .. they have a fun ethic, make it fun for him, then he will enjoy it. Make it exciting, pleasurable and enjoyable and most probably he will co-operate and give you a lot more to work with.

I'm dead pleased as I always hated hammering up roads hunting when we'd not been on any since the last meet! ah, perhaps this is where it comes from then ... I do remember doing four to six weeks walking on roads before anything else as a prelude to getting horse fit. However, I can also...

it's not the hopping over the hedges that hurts the horses' hooves but the 'ammer, 'ammer,' 'ammer on the old high road! don't know who wrote it, but always remember that from my Black Beauty annual when I was a kid. oh, yeah, and being yelled at by my dad!

oh, awful ... why doesn't she take them down? poor horse, and contacts who look so concerned. Hope horse comes OK. Her photos aren't very good anyway - she's chopped the legs off most of the horses, I think the page needs some serious editing.