Recent content by sarahsylvie

push out, with my leg ? nothing his neck stays in the same hollow position, his body however does move .. *confused face*

he bends very nicely both ways, you can feel no difference, he is equally supple on both bends. On one of my others ask slight vibrations on the inside rein and he'll come into an outline, vibrating reins either one of them on this horse ( jack ) gives me the same answear, head rises hollow neck...

i agree with you completely and this is what i have been doing, sending him forward and keeping the impulsion there but even the lightest lowest of contact and you can feel his head rise, the minute you let go of him he will relax again.

yes to all of the above, about 4 weeks ago now but no change in him at all

So I have a new horse, a welsh section D with a hugely high head carriage. He was just used for hunting and cross country comps for the past 5 years ( hes 10 now, 15.2), and i think he has just been used for his speed and power. Weve taken everything back to basic, snaffle, no martingale and hes...

Ive had this new horse for 2 weeks now and everything has been superb with him, so far hes been very forward going but really easy to stop. I have just had a lesson on him (jumping) and he was stupidly strong I could not have possibly pulled back any further and his head was higher than mine...

back in may i discovered an absses on my 10 year old mare. it was half way up her neck, and either side of it was some swelling which i assumed at the time were lymph glands. these glands had been up a few days, and she wouldnt let me brush her mane at all whilst they were up, and only a few...

hi guys, my daughter will be 16 in january, and has alwasy wanted to join pony club, but weve never had the oppertunity as we have had no transport for pony, now we have transport (literally only just today, therefor i have to learn to pull the trailer first lol!!). so now we can! but my...

well the car we are getting is 05 number plate, so 7 years old! would you consider this as a 'modern' auto?

im about to buy a jeep grand cherokee 2.8l CRD sport automatic to tow 2 14.2 ponies. however im really worried about the fact that its an automatic! anyone tow with an automatic jeep? id really love some advice/experience from anyone about towing with automatics.