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I ride in Sprenger safety stirrups.They look just like normal stirrups. I have never lost a stirrup and in two falls my foot did not...

I ride in London BUT my experience of police mounted is from the other side, crowd control. I was in early pregnancy when I was forced...

I have a strong plastic box bought in my early enthusiastic days of riding. But during Covid lockdown when I didnt use it for ages, it...

My personal history of being accompanied by RS girls on unruly horses, means that my accident rate for hacking with others greatly...

Very happy for you, My all time fav. hack was also a 15.2 Connemara

I am a sharer and have been for years. I pay to ride someone else's horse. There is a big difference between that and a trainer, who is...

I dont have the figure for tights, I have Mark Todd breeches in two different sizes, which are now over 20 years old and still fine. My...

My favourite saddle is a Podhajski training saddle. Expensive. They may be still made by Ideal. This is the saddle with which I learned...

Worth asking what exercise the horse has had that day and the prevous day. I rode at a RS yard where they also dealt in horses. The...

I ride fit horses, but they are not privately owned. I am used to riding/sharing horses who work 6 days a week and do 3 or 4 hours...

This is true compared with how horses were looked after before 1914 and during the FWW. Miller wrote convincingly about the polo ponies...

I had one like this when I was younger and one of my current ones was similar...the only time he went put was to go hunting!...so I went...

Shiny surfaces squeak. This may not help you but I take my own leathers with me when I ride (plus my safety stirrups ) and put them on...

I learned to canter at the RS by going up hills. And I chose up hill slopes for my first canters on my current share. One was taught...

I joined the BHS (Life Membership) just before my first hack, to have rider cover and have never regretted it. When OH started to ride...