Recent content by samiracle

if they had easyboots on they wouldn't slip :-) tarmac + metal shoes :-(

my boy is a headshaker too - seems to be getting worse each spring - he is v tense and hypersensitive - I have used a nose net - helped for a while, then we removed the bit and rode him in a hackamore which also worked for a while but now hes getting worse and worse - the other day when it...

I thought these were banned on XC courses because they were dangerous, but I see from the Badminton coverage that they are back and just the sort of accident which the closed corners prevented happened at the farmyard, where a horse veered v slightly off line and landed on the backrail of the...

I have just watched the video again of all 3 tests in the freestyle and cant help but think that MH should have wond followed by Fuego then T - I know nothing much about dressage but if the music is part of the show it was obvious how much more thought and planning had gone into Laura and the...

The French health service is brill - I had a nurse coming every day for the first 2 wks to give me injections against thrombosis, I've already been back once to the hosp for a checkup and have to go again in a couple of weeks and have had 3 blood tests to check that all is ok ...

The French health system is very good - I had a check up at the hosp a week after they let me out, a nurse coming every day for the first 2 wks to give me injections against thrombosis and have another check up at the hosp in a couple of weeks, plus I have had 3 blood tests to make sure all is...

HI Tilda - I'm at 8 weeks now, but not strong enough to poo pick yet - mind you they had to operate twice on me so it may be worse - I can drive the car if I take it easy and dont go too far and at the rate I'm going am hoping to back on a horse in another month - may wear my BP for the first...

I fell off my youngster almost 2 months ago and ended up in hospital for 3 weeks - having my spleen removed, followed by a second op 5 days later after complications and then an infection !!! - I am feeling much better now but I was wondering........ How long before I can ride again ??? my...

Thanks for your comments everyone It does make sense that this could be the problem but I am also a bit doubtful that anything the osteo can do would sort it out if the violent bucking that I've seen him doing on the lunge hasnt done it ?? - the reason for the second visit is that at the time...

the trouble is we're in France and its not that easy to find a good equine vet here, never mind a hospital !!!!!!! the osteo thinks that he can release it manually when he comes next time, but i'm not sure that the poor boy is going to let him do that - I may have to get him tranquilized. It's...

I have had the osteo out to my youngster, who has ongoing issues with his canter (bucking and cat-leaping) which eventually ended up with me spending 3 wks in hosp having my spleen removed !!!!! He didn't find anything serious wrong with his back but he has found that when he was castrated it...