Recent content by SkewbyTwo

Thank you guys, this is all really helpful! Amymay - done! Very little going on there though, in comparison to Glos. We have equine groups about equine groups in Glos... DirectorFury - I was leaning more towards your "Swansea onwards" definition. I don't BE. I would be happy with a draghunt...

Hi all, need to pick your brains! I currently live in Gloucestershire but am in love with West Wales and doing my research on upping sticks and getting a place here. So, what is it like to own horses here? Obviously in Glos we have a ton of events going on, foxhunts and draghunts. My common...

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Utter rubbish. Watch the round on video, and see this fence as it was taken. A more fluid and enabling rider, you will unfortunately almost never see. These days. If there were indeed marks on this horse, they were not made during this stunning round.

Just found this thread after doing an online search. Long story but this underwriter has basically just conned me out of £500. I took out a policy with them via H&H compare in June. They subsequently contacted me to inform I didn't actually qualify for the policy (horse required 5 stage which...

Has to be your hands. If the bridle is already wonky when you put it on, then it must just have been like that from the last time you rode. Think about it, if you put the bridle on straight, how else can it move? We all have a 'strong' side.

You were lied to...any instructor worth his or her salt comes insured up to the eyballs (it doesn't cost a prohibitive amount) and that can always be checked. The owner's insurance company would not care. And if for some reason they did, plenty others wouldn't. This rule always comes from a...

Rumours just hit Facebook that the "paddock injury" story is untrue. Rather that his injury involved an incompetent groom. Just reading more now...but it's there for all to see, for anyone who wants a look. It didn't sound right to me and having had first hand experience myself of event yards...

Or is the whole idea just madness?

Here is your problem...not your riding, not your horse. When my confidence has failed me, which it has at seemingly the oddest times, every time, it is to do with life outside, and nothing whatsoever to do with my (unchanged) ability to ride my horses. If life outside of your horses is not...

Is he happier in his new situation at this yard? If so, I'd leave alone. Doesn't sound like he's getting any serious injuries, if he's low in the pecking order that's what happens, they come in with scrapes. But it sounds as though your horse hasn't been allowed to socialise properly, is being a...

That is WAY too much, you are right. Not sure about frying her brain, that would have pushed her way too far physically. Even an older, established, fully fit horse, I would never lunge for more than 20 minutes, that alone is really tough on them. Let alone, then ask her to school on top. Your...

Plus spring grass! Mine have recently come back into work and I've had to had an old, much bigger saddle temporarily fitted to my warmblood. As his own doesn't get near him!

OP my youngster did this. It was wolf teeth. Please, all physical checks before the "madman" :)

I completely fail to see, how on Earth you could have ridden/handled that any better. Proven, by the fact you had her toeing the line within minutes! Why do people feel the need to comment?? I think it's a general rule of thumb, that whatever unsolicited advice you receive on a livery yard...