Recent content by Skewbald1

Hi all. I've been off and on reading the replies and found them all very constructive, so thank you. I went up to the yard to see my boy today and speak to the yard owner. Hubby dropped me off as I was a bit nervous!! Was rather awkward on arrival and I didn't bring it up straight away. Rode...

Wow, have only just logged back on and seen about 5 new pages of replies. I'm going up to the yard shortly so will see what the yard owner has to say for herself. The pictures are still on Facebook, and the yard owner has texted me this morning, asking if I am going up to the yard today, which...

Thanks for sharing that. I'm not angry at the girl for riding him, I would have jumped at the chance too at her age.. I'm very lucky to have my boy but if someone had genuinely wanted the chance to ride him I would (most of the time) let them at least sit on him. If he were too much for them or...

Oops, double posted somehow

As far as I know she wasn't even going to mention it to me. I don't know why she thought it was OK, and on top of this Ernie and I have a very exciting opportunity coming up, internationally, so if anything had happened to him it would have totally ruined this opportunity for us. Most of the...

Thanks again everyone for the input. I appreciate all your responses and it's good to know that I'm not alone in feeling this. The thing is, she refuses to hack him on the roads. She's more than happy to take him through the countryside but finds him too much on the road (its fair to say I've...

I'm stewing now. It's just taken so long to get him to where he is, I've invested a lot of time (and money!!) to get him to where he is, it feels like it has been totally disregarded. I don't like taking him round the roads (although we do like to go for a canter through the countryside) as I...

Thank you for the response. It was the fact that I am the last to know what is going on with my own horse, I don't even know if she is insured or not. From the looks of the pictures the girl has hacked him on the road too. It takes some guts for even me to hack him round the roads as he is, like...

I pay extra (by quite a margin) for him to be professionally schooled, which is what he normally gets when I can't make it to the yard, on top of my usual livery. I occasionally pay for him to be hacked too but if I can't get to the yard and I don't want him schooling I usually just let him have...

Sorry - it is the yard owner I pay to ride Ernie and no one else- she is a beautiful sympathetic rider and she gets him going very well. The girl who I discovered has been riding him I generally don't have anything to do with and she hasn't ridden him before. Sorry not coming across too well I'm...

Girl doesn't work for her, she is quite new on the yard, her and her brother are PC riders and have 4 between them (nothing bigger than 15.2). She is a livery just like me! However it is yard owner that hubby and I are paying to ride my boy when I can't get to the yard

I've just come back from a lovely relaxed two week holiday, I've been having a very intense time at work and me and hubby wanted to escape for a bit of winter sun. I left my pride and joy, my 17hh Hanoverian grand prix dressage horse on full livery at my yard with the understanding that his...

Wow. Someone is going to be very lucky. Just seen the video, he looks amazing..

Would flushed knees really effect him to that extent (that he would be free?) an old friend of mine's mare had her knees flushed years ago after infection. She was a SJ and returned to normal work.

I was talking to a friend this morning and she was telling me about an apparent FREE dressage school master being advertised on twitter? Has anyone else heard about this? According to my friend (as I don't actually have twitter) there's nothing wrong with him apart from having had his knee...