Recent content by Snowfilly

I never brought from Horse and Hound but going through the ads on a Thursday and window shopping was a constant hobby. I have brought from the local yellow pages newspaper, the Exchange and Mart which had a load of animal adds, and most of them from the local weekly newspaper which used to have...

Ah hell that was horrible to see

Well well well I don’t expect that. That’s a huge shake up. Wasn’t the jumping I’d expect from Jonbon at all.

I’ve brought plenty of youngsters unseen over the years, and I’ve had bosses buy older horses but none of them were for keeps. Most of my youngsters were ok, and this is going to the ‘picture in a magazine’ days, not videos and messages. I did accidentally end up keeping one, but in general...

Too much maths in my horse time! But yes, I think it’s Mullins’ now. Looking forward to watching Jonbon.

All going nicely so far!

Could grow to anything, depending on the parents. My Clyde was over 18hh, although a solid three inches of that was wither. A Clyde mare I handled at some shows was 16.2 and a cob can be anything under the sun! You can’t go wrong with Clyde blood, they’re the best of the heavies by a mile.

Ooof that is very very late notice. I wish they hadn’t left it so late so there might have been time to draw some media attention and actually take action on it. Sadly, a lot of the special needs sports clubs I was involved with locally have all folded, and they had much lower running costs...

Alcohol. It doesn’t solve the rosettes but you feel better about them.

Knees are nicely tucked up, he’s looking where he’s going. Lots of potential there.

That wasn’t the clip I saw so there’s at least two horses got this figured out! Although thinking about it, my childhood Shetland probably knew the bending race pattern better than I did. She’d probably have raced just as well if I’d got off.

Out of interest what happens if you can’t do that inspection? Like, there’s no way I could get time off work at that notice period and as the horses are at our field, there’s no-one available to give them access.

I’ve always thought it’d be fun to try and sit on one! Like how I’d like to sit on a schoolmaster who does tempis and passage from ground commands just so I could feel the movement. Get on, hold on, shut up.

There was a clip I saw a while back of a barrel horse running the pattern loose after the rider fell at the first turn and he managed it very well indeed. You’re definitely meant to be able to just sit on a good cow horse, you point out the cow you want, the horse gets it and you stay out the...

Grand old fella. A long and happy retirement to him.