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Winner! Winner! 🥂🥂🥂 🏆 🏆🏆🏆. My lovely mare just won at Windsor (well, an hour ago!)

I was taught to ride by Mark Rashid. Mostly spectating his clinics, the first in 2005. But eventually going to Colorado with OH and...

My regular rides over the years have all been mares. None of them have really liked having the girth done up. Especially in winter even...

I got into trouble for drawing horses. We drew horses in history lessons. Thus I became a historian tho I should have done maths as my...

I suggest you ask Jane Badger. https://janebadgerbooks.co.uk/ She specialises in dealing in and sometimes reprinting children's Pony...

Rockin S Raised Sweet Iron 3 Piece Snaffle Mark Rashid is a fan of these bits. http://www.markrashid.com/about/rockin-s-snaffle...

I agree about lengthening your stirrups although you do need to be abe to lift your seat out of the saddle ready for trot or canter. I...

I ride in Sprenger straight stirrups. The first thing I do when I get to any yard is to put my own stirrups and leathers onto the saddle...

I know nothing about fitting a saddle to a horse. But I know that due to a bad lower back and thus, like you, pain referred to my...

While I got soaked, my uni friend in Rohan overtrousers was dry, so I bought myself a Rohan light mac for summer walking on rainy days...

Not so. I may not be a star rider, but I am known as a good sharer. I am an elderly weekday rider. I have always been on time, paid the...

I can comment here. In the early days of the internet many people, myself included, put up home made websites. They were made with a MS...

That is irrational . Leather workers and saddlers have a craft that involves touch and judgement beyond the scope of IT. My ancestral...

This is the catch 22 situation. Most riding schools are required by the licensing authority and, I think, the BHS as well, to have all...