Recent content by Skib

I am an older person. For some years I shared and hacked an elderly mare who was no longer ridden by young fast riders. But my two other long term shares have both been RS horses ridden by teenagers. I wonder why you feel that the demands are different? I am an idle, old lady rider and I dont...

I hope you were wearing a hat. It is possible to get knocked over and have a bad injury even in a stable. Either from a hoff while you are down or from the stable wall.

Meindl also do a leather dressing which I bought with my most recent pair of boots. The leather on my previous pair cracked through where the toe bends, so I am taking particular care with these.

The reason it seems complicated is that you are considering two diferent things and also assuming that the horses you ride will respond in a uniform way to those cues. If you strip it down to basics, communication via the rein. Rashid pointed out that the rein connects the most sensitive part...

Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - Horse, plus mules I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Burials_of_Melquiades_Estrada True Grit and Lonesome Dove Dream Horse which often comes up

Look for a recognised riding school and book a lesson. It is as simple as that. You may need to buy or hire a hard hat and suitable boots. My neighbour owned a horse. None of her three children were really interested but they had had lessons at the nearest BHS riding school and she...

Not true of all models. As per my post above, I wore Gatehouse for years and OH had a Charles Owen which brand didnt fit me. But now years later I wear a Charles Owen mips hat and it fits me well.

My hats have all come from Rokers near Guildford and have been fitted by them. Hats and safety have developed over the years. Riding hats owe something now to hats developed for cyclists. So the current hat is m.i.p.s. I have always worn expensive hats starting with Gatehouse and my present...

I was told that the choice of rope or leather for a halter in USA depended on the availability and cost of the materials. My pic of a mounted policemen in Fort Worth in 2005 shows a blue webbing halter under the leather bridle.

Our beloved horses dont come back but the good times we have with them educate us and underpin our relationships with other future horses. I am in my 80s and thus am now riding the fourth of my special horses. She didnt seem special at first compared to the sprightliness of my Connie, but we...

I washed my Musto jacket using Nikwax which hopefully kept it waterproof.

I think you are right. I learned about rope head collars from Americans and I bought three of them in different sizes while on holiday there, The rider has to tie the collar on the horse. The rope is very firm and the pressure of the rope across the nose and through the knot on the side of...

This too. when I was determined to canter, I increased my hacks to 3 and sometimes 4 times a week in order to do this. But I was myself always crooked. It took me ages to be able to canter round a left bend. My lesson RI told me to imagine an elastic running from my right shoulder to my left...

I didnt get anywhere with a mechanical horse. But I did eventually learn to canter out hacking, on a private escorted hack and though not everyone here agrees, the RS which taught me to canter did it out hacking and going up a slight slope.

Not so. The farrier shod horses but the blacksmith repaired machinery and did any metal work. The vet travelled from yard to yard and so doubled as a farrier. My gt gt grandfather William Dewar graduated MRCVS in 1839. In 1841 he was "entertained to dinner by a gathering of 50 people and given...