Recent content by Slk

Thanks and I will certainly keep an eye out for this to see if any sort of pattern / cycle starts to appear, but to date I have not noticed one so I don't think it is hormonal or ovary pain, but will keep it in mind.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts, I'm glad to hear this is probably a youngster thing and will certainly try to hack as much as I can. She is a good hack in company, but understandably insecure on her own, nothing nasty, just babyish. Until she is a bit more confident and responsive and can...

That's an interesting one, thanks :) not too disimilar to the long rein "wiggle" idea in one of the other posts. I have from time to time and when she is going well, and I (or my instructor) felt she was ready, gathered her up. However, in general, she is ridden on a light elastic contact...

I try not to take offence at some of the comments back, after all I have asked for your help, and you obviously can't tell everything from a short post, but please don't get me wrong... when I say she stops and bucks when I reinforce the leg with the whip, it does not mean I am a novice rider...

I have been varying the ground work I do between long reining, "proper" lunging and leading on a long rein with a whip using it as you suggest above and am certainly hoping that this will help. It didn't seem to when I tried the different saddles last week, but I am going to try doing this...

She was broken at about 3.5 yrs, turned away and brought back into work at about 4. All this was with her previous owner. Since I bought her, she has been worked consistently for about 6 months or so through late summer last year and over the winter, but through the early part of this year I...

She is on the GWF diet (alfalfa, equilibra and fibergest) and through the winter was on tiger oats too. I don't think it is feed or energy related, but thanks, and I may email Spillers anyway to see what they say :)

The saddle was very recently checked and I tried several other saddles with my saddler and she was the same in all of them no matter how good the fit (albeit only tried for 10-15 minutes each). I am going to try a treeless saddle with a decent pad next week to see if that helps (again under...

When you are on the ground yes, but no where near as much when you are on her back

I have a 5yo mare, who has had a very slow start in life so far. She is a real sweetie, very good to handle and good to lunge, long rein etc., moves well, but when you get on her back she is reluctant to move in all paces and upward transitions are especially difficult. When you try to use a...

It is difficult to tell your problem from the photos. The saddle needs to be a good few inches further back and girthed up to be able to judge properly. You look like you have a similar problem to me with my own youngster in that your horse is croup high which will have a tendency both to tip...

No worries... it's pretty much how my luck is going at the moment :rolleyes: i have tried ebay, preloved, FB, saddles direct and a whole load of saddler's websites via google searches. Thanks anyway :)

I don't suppose you have had any luck finding one have you? Any tips? I have been searching the internet for about 2 months now for a hawk event XW or similar and can't find anything... plenty of wides, but no XWs!! :)

Mine arrived this morning too :-) xc for me... Yay !!

I can't speak for the quality of their stables, but I had a horse walker from monarch last year. I have found their customer service to be excellent, they were really friendly and helpful right the way through the process and even set up a visit with one of their existing customers so I could...