Recent content by showaddy1

Big hunter, no feathers... If someone could tell me how to upload - can't be that difficult surely?? Maybe because I'm on my phone. I thought tail pulled... I'm going to need lessons in that.

My partner has just bought a big coloured mare, would like to try a bit of showing as not well enough to compete (me not mare). Would a man wear tweed, long black boots or brown boots? Her tack would be a gp black saddle with hunter bridle.. She will not allow us to pull her mane (yet) so...

I lost my mare last Thursday... I am devastated. Cried more tears over her than any human, or pet. I can appreciate that it's very early days... But the overwhelming sadness I feel actually physically hurts. I can't offer any words of wisdom, but I can say you are not alone. So sorry for your...

Thankyou all, I am still devastated. It's really affected me, to the point I can't actually go back to the yard. I have kind friends who are caring for my last horse on the yard. Coincidentally I have sold her, she is going next week. Shook on it the night before my lovely Sonia went, if only I...

I've lost two this year. Mother and daughter. Daughter was ten. They came as a pair seven years ago and then mum dropped another! Weirdly they have all died. One choke, one broke her leg clean in half earlier in the year and now my gorgeous girl. I have experienced colic twice in the past...

My lovely girl, who has given me my confidence back, who knew I wasn't well anymore and who looked after me everytime I rode her died last night and I am just gutted. I'm not looking for sympathy, just wanted some answers. She came in at five thirty her usual happy to be having dinner self. An...

I'm not sure how I feel about this... yes sure she is tall for the pony, but is height going to cause harm?

hibshobby- Autistic spectrum disorder... in my case high functioning. People like me are those you think are a little quirky - I guess yrs ago we would have been defined as eccentric. I have slightly higher intelligence... and work as a nurse, with three kids and many animals (collections)...

Paddy555 - I think that's where the problem lays. Don't get me wrong - falls/ fear and my over thinking had left me with an almost foetal position when riding... I desperately needed these lessons, and the instructors 'no messing' approach has got me riding so much better. I guess, right now...

My 'thing' is definitely the fact I hate not being in control - I'm not scared of the falling off, but the inability to stop the horse when I want scares the crap out of me! Equi - I completely 'get' what your saying. when I am annoyed because the horse is wimping out/ shying or generally being...

Anxiety and asd go hand in hand so I can empathise well skint 1! Ester - I would like to think that my asd allows me to have a better connection with my ride, that because of our heightened senses I can pick up everything that the horse is trying to tell me. Truth is I'm so busy thinking about...

I've been riding for over 30yrs, but only recently diagnosed (more for DD than me, I'm doing ok and knew who I was a long time ago). Horses are my 'obsession'... And I live and breath for my equine friends... They keep me calm and balanced Anyway, point to this post is I've recently started...

Sorry, friend knew I was looking for a pony for son... So bought pony as thought a 'friend' wouldn't hide any dangerous vices. Turns out she has hospitalised a child previously. I'm selling/ was selling as son never settled on her, never reared on the few months we have owned her, but neither...

I have been sold a pony that rears, with no disclosure of such. Worse still, bought through an acquaintance who knew pony was for my eight years old son. Only came to light as son refuses to ride pony so I've advertised her, and first viewing the little mare went vertical. Is there anything I...

Huge thankyou to you and hubby for making me smile, the thought of being in forever pain isnt good for emotional wellbeing! ps Im crap at football :)