Recent content by So?

To save other people eating up time looking it up like I just have, the case was in Malta and the defence that the horse was about to bite a small child was accepted.

I am shocked that you're putting a saddle on a horse you call 'a bit of a nutter' when he's got x rays for kissing spine damage so bad the vet who took them told you to have him put to sleep. Has the horse had spine jabs or an operation? If not, there's no way I would be putting a saddle...

The last time I autumn hunted, which at the time was called 'cubbing' before it was rebranded with a less sensitive name, it consisted of ringing a wood with people on horseback, getting those people to talk loudly or smack their boots with their whips, to ensure that the cubs stayed inside the...

I am absolutely certain 'that other poster', whoever they are, will be offended big time to be compared to someone who openly accused another poster of lying about not riding her own horse because she knew she was too heavy for it.

Of course you can if you know about the physical mechanism of how horses hold a rider on their backs. The rider isn't just sat there on top, he's actively held up by the horse's belly and back muscles coming under tension. I don't see how those muscles can be expected in five weeks to have...

We can't help what people have done with horses before we own them, but would you do it yourself?

If it was true, which I know it was, what would your feeling about it be? The horse was four, for people asking about the age. That wouldn't make any difference to me, I wouldn't ask any horse which has only been in regular work for five weeks to carry a rider of that weight for two hours.

Good point ! Horse is apparently for sale, so I guess the owner's just rushing to get miles on it, literally, to make it worth more.

Ground was good. Companion was a very spooky young pony. My concern would be expecting back muscles that had only five weeks conditioning to carry twelve stone for two hours, at any pace. I don't see it as a choice between a two hour plod or stuck in a stable, or a two hour plod...

I went on a two hour ten mile pleasure ride today and I heard the person in front of me say the horse had been broken five weeks. The rider meant first sat on five weeks ago. The horse was a strong type about 16.2 and the rider and tack probably twelve stone. Was I wrong to feel uncomfortable...